Test Bite

1. What was the Russian term for a collective farm?

Kolkhoz
Kolkoz
Sovkhoz

2. When did Stalin declare voluntary collectivisation?

1927
1929
1931

3. When did Stalin make collectivisation compulsory?

1927
1929
1930

4. Which of the following did not happen when Stalin tried to enforce collectivisation?

The peasants burned their crops and killed their animals.
There was a famine.
Production rose.

5. Who were the "kulaks"?

A farmer rich enough to own a barn.
A peasant who could afford to hire other workers.
Any peasant who opposed Stalin's policy of collectivisation.

6. How many collective farms were there by 1939?

250,000
2.5 million
25 million

7. What percentage of the peasants lived on a kolkhoz by 1939?

66 per cent
90 per cent
99 per cent

8. How many Russian peasants left the countryside to work in the towns 1927-37?

5 million
17 million
100 million

9. How many Russians starved to death in the famine of 1932-33?

5 million
17 million
100 million

10. Which of the following was a result of collectivisation?

Seven million kulaks were killed.
Russia sold large quantities of grain to other countries.
Grain production fell 1927-37.

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