Russia National Study Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. The elimination of wealthy peasants/those that opposed collectivisation
  2. 9. (7,7) An economic system where the distribution of goods and services or the investment, production and the allocation of capital goods takes place according to economic plans that are determined by the government.
  3. 11. A member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917
  4. 13. Body responsible for spreading communism internationally.
  5. 14. A close friend of Stalin’s and Party Head of Leningrad who was assassinated 10 months after being elected to the Central Committee ahead of Stalin and being touted as a worthy replacement
  6. 15. The bureaucratic elite that were earmarked for promotion within the party
  7. 16. Wealthy peasants. Became a term used to describe any peasant that opposed collectivization or the party
  8. 19. Bolshevik newspaper titled 'Truth' founded in 1912
  9. 21. The process of imposing Russian language and culture on ethnic minorities
  10. 25. Hunger-extermination — the famine that took hold in the Ukraine 1932-33
  11. 27. The group of individuals who were said to own the wealth of a society
  12. 29. The process of expelling undesirable members from the party
  13. 30. (7,9) Technically the main decision-making body of the CPSU. From this group important roles within the party, such as the politburo, were elected
  14. 33. State Planning Agency — oversaw the economy during the Five Year Plans
  15. 34. (9,10) Theory that revolutions beyond Russia were required for socialism to survive.
  16. 35. Secret police from 1917-22. Became the NKVD
  17. 36. State Farm — peasants worked state land for fixed wage
  18. 37. Five-Year Plans
  19. 39. Collective Farm — peasants pooled their land and gave fixed quota of produce to the state
Down
  1. 1. Government agency responsible for labour camps — prisoners worked on state projects
  2. 2. The process of limiting the kinds of information that can be discussed or promoted in public.
  3. 4. A political term describing a society in which an individual rules with near total economic, political, social, and cultural control.
  4. 5. Wealthy workers, merchants, and businessmen — developed under NEP
  5. 6. Communist youth organisation
  6. 7. The industrial transformation of agrarian Russia from small peasant holdings to kolkhoz or sovkhoz
  7. 8. Head of the NKVD from 1936-38. who oversaw the implementation of the Great Terror. Was himself then a victim of the Terror.
  8. 10. Executive committee of the Communist Party, normally 5-7 members
  9. 12. (9,2,3,7) Initially an idea of Lenin’s, Stalin adopted this policy which sought to secure communist rule in the USSR before expanding
  10. 17. The only form of art allowed in the USSR beyond 1934. It had to be accessible to the people and promote the ideals of socialism
  11. 18. Localised unions that represented the workers from 1905 onwards. They became the building blocks of the system of government
  12. 20. Those who followed the example of Stakhanov to work hard to exceed the production norms
  13. 22. Group within the Central Committee tasked with organisational oversight of the party
  14. 23. The Government (Council of People's Commissars) established in 1917. Each republic had its own one
  15. 24. Members of the Party that had been around since before the October Revolution 1917.
  16. 26. (3,8,6) Economic policy introduced by Lenin in the wake of the Civil War to settle the economy and appease the people
  17. 28. Head of the NKVD from 1934-36. Was himself then a victim of the Terror.
  18. 31. A member of the minority, moderate, non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party
  19. 32. (4,6) Series of dramatic public trials of prominent individuals that to some extent justified the Great Terror.
  20. 38. Commissariat of Internal Affairs. Organisation that controlled the secret police and gulags from 1934