| A | B |
| Stakhanov | He cut 102 tonnes of coal in 6 hours - apparently! |
| Gosplan | Central Planning Agency |
| Consumer Goods | Manufactured items; eg: cars, fridges |
| Kirov | His murder kicked off the purges |
| 1936 constitution | A sham - it set up the Supreme Soviet - but it only met twice a year! |
| Socialist Realism | Arts dedicated to celebrating the Soviet state |
| Cult of Personality | Worshiping Stalin - statues, art works etc |
| The Purges | Removing opposition |
| Bukharin | Wanted NEP - put on show trial |
| Heavy industry | Iron, coal, steel etc |
| Kamenev | Wanted Rapid industrialisation when Stalin wanted NEP |
| New Economic Policy | Allowing peasants to have private plots, some private industry and international trading links |
| Trotsky | Wanted World Revolution |
| Socialism in One Country | Concentrating on modernising Russia - not spreading world revolution |
| Komsomol | The communist youth organisation |
| Kolkhoz | A collective farm - when peasants pool resources, share out crops and give some to the state |
| Zinoviev | Wanted rapid industrialisation when Stalin wanted NEP |
| NKVD | Stalin's secret police |
| Sovkhoz | A state farm - when peasants were paid a wage for their crops |
| Magnitogorsk | An new industrial town |
| Kulak | A rich peasant |
| Gulag | A prison camp for opposition |
| Dekulakisation | Removal of the richer peasants |
| 25 thousanders | They were sent into the countryside to 'persuade' the peasants to collectivise! |