5. P1 6-mark Qs: Stalin’s Russia

Today you are going to:

Look at Paper 1 Questions on: Stalin’s Russia.

Question 1.

1. Why did Stalin win the leadership struggle against Trotsky? [6]

OR: Why was Stalin able to defeat Trotsky to become Lenin’s successor? [6]

OR: Why was Stalin able to become dictator of Russia by 1929? [6]

OR: Why did Stalin, and not Trotsky, become Lenin’s successor? [6]

Question 2.

2. Why was there a struggle for power after Lenin’s death? [6]

Question 3.

3. Why were Stalin’s ideas more popular among Communist Party officials than those of Trotsky? [6]

Question 4.

4. Why did Stalin introduce collectivisation? [6]

OR: Why did Stalin want to collectivise Soviet agriculture? [6]

Question 5.

5. Why did Stalin modernise agriculture in the Soviet Union? [6]

Question 6.

6. Why was collectivisation opposed by many peasants? [6]

Question 7.

7. Why did Stalin want to modernise the USSR? [6]

OR: Why did Stalin want to modernise Soviet industry? [6]

Question 8.

8. Why did Stalin abandon the New Economic Policy? [6]

Question 9.

9. Why did Stalin introduce the Five-Year Plans? [6]

OR: Why were the Five Year Plans important to Stalin? [6]

Question 10.

10. Why was Stalin’s purge of the armed forces in 1937 a threat to the future security of the Soviet Union? [6]

Question 11.

11. Why did Stalin undertake the purges of the 1930s? [6]

Question 12.

12. Why did Stalin create a ‘cult of personality’? [6]

Question 13.

13. Why did Stalin introduce a new Constitution in 1936? [6]

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