The Soviet Union was one of the world’s biggest and most powerful Nation in the world. The collapse of this union brought with it cheers and fears. This collapse led to the end of the cold war that had lasted for almost 44 years. Test your knowledge of this rise and fall by taking the quiz below.
Coordinate a secret counteroffensive through the Caucasus
Go into seclusion for several days
Appeal to the Allies for assistance
Publicly rally the population around the socialist cause
A widespread drought was killing off many Russian crops
Surplus stores of grain were hoarded by thuggish overlords in rural areas
Most Russian grain was being exported to support the expansion of Bolshevik power
Peasants were given no incentive to produce under War Communism's requisition policies
Lingering tensions from the Soviet destruction of a commercial airliner just north of Japan
The Soviet occupation of four northern Japanese islands since World War II
The Japanese refusal to cede all of Sakhalin Island
The lack of a formal treaty after the Russo-Japanese War
Stalin
Gorky
Trotsky
Zinoviev and Kamenev
I, II
II only
II, III
I, II, III
Raion
Balkan
Soyuz
Oblast
Majority of peasants did not have hereditary tenure and therefore had no interest in developing the land
Nobles still controlled the flow of capital resources into the communes
Population was increasing at a rate that could not be supported by family farming
Political alliances among commune leaders were mostly corrupt and siphoned off much of the profits
Japan
Sweden
Italy
Norway
Other Soviet leaders felt threatened by his power.
He was a spy working for the British.
He protested Krushchev's policy of de-Stalinization.
He was one of the Jews implicated in the Doctors' Plot.
Investment
Agrarian
Industrial
Social engineering
Germany
The United States
Japan
Great Britain
Orgburo
Central Committee
Politburo
Supreme Soviet
A period of cautions reform whose slow pace further angered revolutionaries
Economic stagnation caused by the retrenchment of industrial capabilities
A harsh police state designed to re-establish autocracy
A country preoccupied with foreign wars to the neglect of domestic issues
Arab skepticism of Soviet resolve
Improved diplomatic relations with Israel
Increased Soviet involvement in building the Arab militaries
A strengthening of cooperation with the West
Bolsheviks were the embodiment of the Russian spirit and would achieve the ultimate stability of the nation
Revolution had been halted by the Soviet government, which was proceeding to carry out programs
Evolution from radicalism to empire would proceed as it had after the French revolution
Russian revolution was fundamentally a nationalist revolution with Slavic roots
1918
1921
1929
1934
Their appeal to the peasantry
The lack of resistance from from the military
Their ability to appease the landed aristocracy
The brilliance of Lenin and Trotsky
The Cuban missile crisis
Nuclear arms reduction in general
Communist China's world role
Germany and Berlin
An increase in labor productivity
The qualitative improvement of goods
The integration of peasants into urban population structures
An increase in output totals
The Middle East
Nuclear nonproliferation
Germany and Berlin
Vietnam
Mensheviks
Apparatchiks
Procurators
The Communist Bourgeoisie
St. Petersburg
The rail lines breaching out of Irkutsk
The Black Sea port of Odessa
Astrakhan, at the delta of the Volga River
Greater foreign investment
Greater productivity and higher technology
Revenues from steel and arms exports
Increased employment in the defense sector
All-Russia Famine Relief Committee
Council of People's Commissars
Volunteer Army
Central Executive Committee
Truman was generally a more forceful personality than Roosevelt
The new British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, was urging Truman to exclude the Soviets from the war effort against Japan
Truman knew the atomic bomb had been developed
Stalin's designs on Eastern Europe had been made clearer