The USSR: the 1930s
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Tabulate the USSR’s industrialisation and collectivisation by aim, method and consequence.
Industrialisation: aim – industry and military strength; method – state plan; result – heavy industry. Collectivisation: aim – control and grain; method – forced collective farms; result – famine, deportations.
2
Explain political repression in your own words and give one example from Uzbekistan.
Punishment on political grounds; for example, in the 1930s many Uzbek intellectuals (such as Fitrat and Cho‘lpon) were repressed.
3
Give two historical assessments of the pact and say which argument seems more convincing to you.
Free answer: gaining time for security versus harm to sovereignty; based on documentary evidence.
4
Write four sentences on the cultural gains and restrictions of the 1930s.
Literacy rose and schools multiplied; but there was censorship and ideological control.
5
Why do historians not give one single assessment of this period?
Because industrial achievements and huge human losses existed together, and archives keep providing new data.