The USSR: 1918–1929
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Compare war communism and the NEP on three criteria: what happened to the peasants’ harvest, private trade, and who owned large industry.
Harvest: taken by requisitioning / after the tax in kind the rest stayed with the peasant; private trade: banned / allowed; large industry: state-owned in both.
2
Name the four original republics of the USSR.
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Transcaucasian Federation.
3
Write three consequences of the civil war.
Large human losses, economic ruin, consolidation of Bolshevik power.
4
Why was the 1924 delimitation important for the history of Uzbekistan? Write three sentences.
New national-territorial units, including the Uzbek SSR, were created; it paved the way to modern borders.
5
Why did the dismantling of the NEP begin in the late 1920s? Give your view.
Free answer: the leadership preferred industrialisation and centralised management.