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What is the name of the revolutionary who started the Soviet Union and became its first official leader?
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Nicholas Appov
Yuri Andropov
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Lenin established the Soviet Union by leveraging the might of what political party that he led?
The Bolsheviks
The Mensheviks
The Costaviks
The Pershoviks
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Vladimir Lenin began what series of purges where he imprisoned and tortured political dissidents to ensure his monopoly on power?
The Green Terror
The White Terror
The Red Terror
The Blue Terror
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Vladimir Lenin declared war on what neighboring country in a move that would add Ukraine and Belarus to the Soviet Union?
Türkiye
Luxembourg
Germany
Poland
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Lenin founded what organization that was meant to spread his ideals throughout the world and provide aid to rebel groups who wanted to turn their own countries communist?
Aid for Brotherhood
The Soviet Roots
The Red Wave
Communist International
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What Soviet leader succeeded Vladimir Lenin and famously led his country through World War Two?
Boris Yeltsin
Stanislav Petrov
Joseph Stalin
Konrad Chernenko
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Stalin infamously banished what other rising star of the Soviet Union who vocally opposed the more violent purges of the nation's leaders?
Leonid Brezhnev
Leon Trotsky
Leono Porfirio
Leonos Corvon
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Stalin created an ethnic purge-by-hunger of the Ukrainian people. What was this purge called?
The Holodomor
The Kristallnacht
The Wieramon
The Ashokin
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The Soviet Union experienced a massive wave of starvation under Stalin because of what series of programs he enacted to industrialize the country?
The Great Leap Forward
The Glorious March of Onward Progress
The Five-Year Plan
The Red Eye Plan
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Stalin was especially known for sending political dissidents to forced labor camps called what?
Gulags
Corrals
Interims
Centars
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Stalin massacred supporters of Leon Trotsky and members of any other political group he didn't like in a series of campaigns collectively called which of the following?
The Great Purge
The Great Leap Forward
The Politburo
The Kremlin
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Stalin originally kept the Soviet Union out of World War Two by signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with what other country who would violate its tenets?
Saudi Arabia
China
Switzerland
Germany
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A truly bizarre incident in Stalin's later life came when he denounced what class of professionals because he was paranoid they were all trying to kill him?
Poets
Police officers
Doctors
Lawyers
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Stalin also brought the world into what period of nuclear tensions between Eastern and Western nations?
The War on Poverty
The War of the Roses
The Hundred Year's War
The Cold War
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What Soviet politician succeeded Joseph Stalin and led the country only for a brief period of time until the next proper leader took the reins of power?
Georgy Molotov
Georgy Masarov
Georgy Malenkov
Georgy Zhukov
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Malenkov was ousted from power by what man who would replace him as the next leader of the Soviet Union?
Nicholas Romanov
Lenik Kiergan
Yuri Andropov
Nikita Khrushchev
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Khrushchev tried to mildly liberalize the Soviet Union by ending a few of its more radically authoritarian practices. What is the common name given to this practice of liberalization by Khrushchev?
Deleninization
Destalinization
Derasputinization
Detsarinization
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Khrushchev navigated what incident of heightened tensions with the U.S. after one of America's stealth planes crashed in Soviet territory?
The B-12 Incident
The U-2 Incident
The IZ-9 Incident
The T-2 Incident
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Another major period of tensions that Khrushchev oversaw with the U.S. was what event where America and the Soviet Union threatened nuclear war over the deployment of warheads to Cuba?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Fronde
The Burning of Havanna
The W-1 Incident
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Khrushchev ruled over the Soviet Union when it tested what massive warhead that produced the largest nuclear explosion in human history?
Katastor
Fat Man
Tsar Bomba
Massimo
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Khrushchev was also a major reason for the Sino-Soviet Split where Soviet Russia fell out with what other communist power?
South Africa
Venezuela
China
Cuba
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What man succeeded Nikita Khrushchev in leading the Soviet Union only for the nation to fall into a period of stagnation and deep-seated corruption?
Boris Yeltsin
Leonid Brezhnev
Yuri Geller
Georgy Zhukov
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Brezhnev sparked an international incident in 1979 when he invaded what Middle Eastern country?
Afghanistan
Palestine
Iraq
Yemen
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24 leaderssBrezhnev also oversaw the Warsaw Pact's response to the Prague Spring where Soviet nations invaded what other country to stop it from growing more democratic?
Poland
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Kuwait
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What Soviet leader briefly succeeded Leonid Brezhnev only to fight a losing battle against domestic corruption and the arms race that Ronald Reagan began in America?
Massimo Cosserna
Barlo Ashnikov
Yuri Andropov
Vladimir Putin
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What man succeeded Yuri Andropov only to die a year into his time in office?
Konstantin Chernenko
Yuri Gagarin
Boris Yeltsin
Sergey Lavrov
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What successor of Konstantin Chernenko would be the final leader of the Soviet Union?
Otto Skorzeny
Mikhail Gorbachev
Porfirus Azerny
Oskar Lavrov
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What Russian word that means "Restructuring" came to be attached to Gorbachev's policy of reformatting the Soviet Union's economy to make it slightly more capitalist?
Glasnost
Perestroika
Gostdoul
Chernabog
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What Russian word that means "Openness" was attached to Gorbachev's policies of granting his citizens the right to criticize government officials more openly?
Glasnost
Allostroika
Gotsdoul
Chernabog
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In what year did Mikhail Gorbachev formally dissolve the Soviet Union?
1985
1988
1991
1995
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