Stalin's plan for industrializing Russia
a. involved restructuring agriculture to create surpluses to invest in modernization.
b. assumed that factories' efficiencies would create profits for further investment.
c. offered material incentives to attract farm workers to new industrial jobs.
d. relied on market forces to attract new investment opportunities.
e. were aimed at raising the people's standard of living.
Q. 2Industrialization in Russia occurred
a. in parallel with the industrialization in Europe.
b. before it occurred in Europe.
c. as a result of wealthy oligarchs.
d. forcefully under Stalin.
e. in keeping with Marxist theory.
Q. 3The first secret police in the Soviet Union were the __________.
a. KGB
b. GRU
c. Cheka
d. Nomenklatura
e. Stazi
Q. 4Vladimir Lenin advocated for which of the following concepts that permitted open debate until policy had been decided, and then point absolute support was required?
a. Marxism
b. Glasnost'
c. Perestroika
d. Democratic centralism
e. Nomenklatura
Q. 5In spite of being a centralized authority, nineteenth-century Russia was a weak state, in part because
a. the tsar was head of church and state.
b. nearly the whole population was suburban.
c. industrialists could thwart the tsar's policies.
d. Russian industry and infrastructure was so much less developed than that of Western countries.
e. the tsar's rule depended upon the secret police.
Q. 6The worst-ever nuclear power plant disaster took place in 1986 in what Russian city?
a. Moscow
b. Leningrad
c. Stalingrad
d. Novosibirsk
e. Chernobyl
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