Q.1.
Which building housed the headquarters of the secret police, where victims of the Purges were routinely tortured and shot?
Q.2.
Who took over the leadership of the NKVD in 1939, and continued in this post until Stalin's death?
Q.3.
Which classical composer's 5th Symphony (1937) was acceptable to the authorities, and helped him to re-establish his reputation?
Q.4.
Which group of academic subjects received special emphasis in Stalin's new universities and technical colleges?
Q.5.
For the USSR's large muslim population these were challenging times, as the government curtailed many of their practices. Which one of the following was curbed?
Q.6.
Tukachevsky was one of the victims of the Show Trials. In what area of Soviet life was he active?
Q.7.
Who was the author of the 1936 Stalin Constitution?
Q.8.
How did Krestinsky differ from the other accused in the Show Trials?
Q.9.
Which politician's violent death in 1934 unleashed four years of purges?
Q.10.
Which of Sergei Eisenstein's films depicts an event from the 1905 Revolution?