The Turkestan ASSR, famine and NEP
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
List four main features of the “war communism” policy.
State takeover of industry, food requisition, restriction of the market and trade, forced labour.
2
Why was the Muslim Bureau formed and who belonged to it? Write 3–4 sentences.
So that local communists could voice their views and criticise the centre’s policy; T. Risqulov, N. Xo‘jayev and others belonged to it.
3
If 1,000,000 desyatinas were taken in the Turkestan ASSR and 400,000 given to peasants, how much remains for other purposes?
600000
4
Split the causes of the famine (from the lesson) into two groups: natural/economic and political.
Economic: dependence on grain from Russia, routes cut by the war, and economic crisis; political: requisition and removal of produce to the centre.
5
Write one positive and one negative aspect of NEP.
Positive: it gave peasants some freedom and helped restore production; negative: it was temporary and strict control returned later.