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Josef Stalin - "Man Of Steel" Trivia Quiz

From USSR with love. This is a short quiz about the Soviet leader from Georgia, Josef Stalin. No fill-in-the-blank questions!

A multiple-choice quiz by krzys44. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
krzys44

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
116,722

Updated
Dec 03 21

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1. Josef Stalin's real name was: Hint

Sergey Koba

Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

Josef Demitry Dzhugashvili

Josef Lev Dzhugashvili

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2. Where did Stalin study after he had left Gori, his hometown in Georgia? Hint

Tbilisi Theological Seminary

Petersburg University

Petersburg Theological Seminary

Tbilisi University

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3. In which month and year was Stalin arrested and deported to Vologda, where he was supposed to remain for three years under open police surveillance?
Hint

December, 1911

November, 1912

December , 1912

November, 1910

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4. In which year was Stalin appointed as General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee? Hint

1924

1922

1919

1920

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5. Yes/No question. Did Lenin write in his "Political Testament" that Stalin should become the leader of Russia after him?

Yes

6. In 1928 Stalin ended Lenin's New Economic Policy and began to force all peasants to join Collective Farms. On the Collective Farms, peasants were forced to hand over their produce to the government and were either paid wages or had to feed themselves on what was left over. What was one of the results of that policy?
Hint

agricultural production rose by 25%

agricultural production fell by 5%

agricultural production rose by 15%

agricultural production fell by 15%

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7. In the 1930s, Stalin launched his __________, ridding the Communist Party of all the people who had brought him to power. Hint

Great Terror

Great Sweep

Great Leap Forward

Great Weed Out

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8. Who was assassinated by a young party member, Leonid Nikolayev on 1st December, 1934? (It is now widely believed that his murder was ordered by Stalin, who was frightened, because this politician appeared to be more popular than he was.)
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Sergei Kirov

Georgi Zhukov

Nikolay Yezhov

Lev Kamenev

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9. When the German attack came in June 1941, the Soviet army was completely unprepared and suffered horrible defeats. Stalin spent the first several days after the attack... Hint

holed up in his office in shock

sending Red Army soldiers to Minsk

convincing the USA about attacking Germany

in the hospital because of meningitis

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10. How many wives did Stalin have? Hint

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Josef Stalin's real name was:

Answer: Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

Stalin came from Gori, which is now in the Republic of Georgia. He was born on 21st December 1879. In 1910 he adopted the pseudonym Josef Stalin, Stalin meaning "a man of steel." Both his parents were Georgian peasants neither of whom spoke Russian.

2. Where did Stalin study after he had left Gori, his hometown in Georgia?

Answer: Tbilisi Theological Seminary

Yes, it is true. Stalin initially studied to become a priest. He learnt the Russian language at the Gori church school which he attended between 1888 and 1894.

3. In which month and year was Stalin arrested and deported to Vologda, where he was supposed to remain for three years under open police surveillance?

Answer: December, 1911

Josef Stalin escaped from exile in Vologda on 29th February, 1912.

4. In which year was Stalin appointed as General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee?

Answer: 1922

Stalin understood that "cadres are everything"; if you control the personnel, you control the organization. He shrewdly used his new position to consolidate power in exactly this way--by controlling all appointments, setting agendas, and moving around Party staff.

5. Yes/No question. Did Lenin write in his "Political Testament" that Stalin should become the leader of Russia after him?

Answer: No

Lenin suggested that Trotsky should become the leader of Russia after him and also suggested that the other Bolshevik leaders should find a way of getting rid of Stalin. "Political Testament" wasn't published after Lenin's death because, during that time, Trotsky was very unpopular.

Answer: agricultural production fell by 15%

Another result: devastating famine. 5,000,000 people starved to death in the Soviet Union between 1932 to 1934

7. In the 1930s, Stalin launched his __________, ridding the Communist Party of all the people who had brought him to power.

Answer: Great Terror

More than 1.2 million party members - more than half the party - were arrested between 1936 and 1939, of whom 600,000 died by torture, execution or perished in the Gulag.

Answer: Sergei Kirov

Stalin claimed that Nikolayev was part of a larger conspiracy led by Leon Trotsky against the Soviet government.

9. When the German attack came in June 1941, the Soviet army was completely unprepared and suffered horrible defeats. Stalin spent the first several days after the attack...

Answer: holed up in his office in shock

Stalin so strongly believed that he and Hitler had an understanding that he refused to listen to his military advisors' warnings in 1941 that the Wehrmacht was massing for an attack, and purged anyone who dared utter such blasphemy.

10. How many wives did Stalin have?

Answer: 2

Both wives died. His second wife Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva committed suicide in 1932. Stalin had a son and a daughter by his second wife. His son, Vasily, was an officer in the Soviet air force before his death in 1962. His daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defected to the United States in 1967. Yakov, his son by his first wife, died in Nazi captivity.

Source: Author krzys44

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