CWI Test 1 UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a
government. - CORRECT ANSWER - command economy
Agricultural policy that aimed to integrate individual land holdings/labor into state-controlled
farms - CORRECT ANSWER - Collectivization
Wealthier peasants who owned land and offered credit to poorer peasants. Term used to
demonize farm owners during collectivization - CORRECT ANSWER - Kulak
A form of state-owned farm in the Soviet Union that was organized by the state on land
confiscated from former large estates. Workers of the ___would be recruited from among
landless rural residents - CORRECT ANSWER - Sovkhov
The name of the man-made famine of 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Soviet citizens, most
of them Ukrainians. Collectivization policies and the Soviet government's seizure of grain have
been blamed for the mass starvation - CORRECT ANSWER - Holodmor
a system of labor camps maintained in the former Soviet Union from 1930 to 1955 in which
many people died - CORRECT ANSWER - Gulag
The transformation of an economy from agriculture to manufacturing, driven by technological
innovation and trade - CORRECT ANSWER - Industrialization
the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered
obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. - CORRECT ANSWER -
censorship
A situation where a leader (often a dictator) has been falsely idolized and made into a national or
group icon and is revered as a result - CORRECT ANSWER - Cult of personality
, Turkic-speaking people that are mainly found in west-central Russia and other former Soviet
Republics (of Turkic origin but living mainly in Russia) - CORRECT ANSWER - Tatars
The spread of Russian culture and language among non-Russians - CORRECT
ANSWER - Russification
What word should be associated with Nikita Khrushchev (1958-1964)? - CORRECT
ANSWER - De-stalinization
Whose leadership did the Soviet Union fall under? - CORRECT ANSWER - Mikhail
Gorbachev
The principal policy making committee of a communist party - CORRECT ANSWER -
Politburo
Gorbachev's reconstruction of the USSR - CORRECT ANSWER - Perestroika
What was the stare of the USSR prior to perestroika? - CORRECT ANSWER - USSR was
falling behind other countries technologically, foreign policy resulted in a declining capacity to
win friends and influence people, no political instability
The removal or loosening of restrictions on something, typically an economic or political system
- CORRECT ANSWER - liberalization
The introduction of democracy, its functions or principles, to an area or country which did not
have democracy previously - CORRECT ANSWER - Democratization
T/F: Gorbachev pushed for liberalization and eventual democratization - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
and CORRECT Answers
an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a
government. - CORRECT ANSWER - command economy
Agricultural policy that aimed to integrate individual land holdings/labor into state-controlled
farms - CORRECT ANSWER - Collectivization
Wealthier peasants who owned land and offered credit to poorer peasants. Term used to
demonize farm owners during collectivization - CORRECT ANSWER - Kulak
A form of state-owned farm in the Soviet Union that was organized by the state on land
confiscated from former large estates. Workers of the ___would be recruited from among
landless rural residents - CORRECT ANSWER - Sovkhov
The name of the man-made famine of 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Soviet citizens, most
of them Ukrainians. Collectivization policies and the Soviet government's seizure of grain have
been blamed for the mass starvation - CORRECT ANSWER - Holodmor
a system of labor camps maintained in the former Soviet Union from 1930 to 1955 in which
many people died - CORRECT ANSWER - Gulag
The transformation of an economy from agriculture to manufacturing, driven by technological
innovation and trade - CORRECT ANSWER - Industrialization
the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered
obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. - CORRECT ANSWER -
censorship
A situation where a leader (often a dictator) has been falsely idolized and made into a national or
group icon and is revered as a result - CORRECT ANSWER - Cult of personality
, Turkic-speaking people that are mainly found in west-central Russia and other former Soviet
Republics (of Turkic origin but living mainly in Russia) - CORRECT ANSWER - Tatars
The spread of Russian culture and language among non-Russians - CORRECT
ANSWER - Russification
What word should be associated with Nikita Khrushchev (1958-1964)? - CORRECT
ANSWER - De-stalinization
Whose leadership did the Soviet Union fall under? - CORRECT ANSWER - Mikhail
Gorbachev
The principal policy making committee of a communist party - CORRECT ANSWER -
Politburo
Gorbachev's reconstruction of the USSR - CORRECT ANSWER - Perestroika
What was the stare of the USSR prior to perestroika? - CORRECT ANSWER - USSR was
falling behind other countries technologically, foreign policy resulted in a declining capacity to
win friends and influence people, no political instability
The removal or loosening of restrictions on something, typically an economic or political system
- CORRECT ANSWER - liberalization
The introduction of democracy, its functions or principles, to an area or country which did not
have democracy previously - CORRECT ANSWER - Democratization
T/F: Gorbachev pushed for liberalization and eventual democratization - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
