What does Stalin's name mean? Steel From where did Lenin get his name? From the great Siberian river Lena. What is the joke about the two main newspapers (Pravda and Izvestiya)? There's no news in the Pravda (truth) and no truth in Izvestiya (news). The local commissariat gave Pavlik Morozov a medal. The next morning the soldiers came to his house and confiscated the wheat.
At night this brave boy ran across the fields to the local Soviet and told them about the grain. "On the great road to becoming a Communist", which group did they join after they were Pioneers? The Young Communist League Who was Pavlik Morozov? A son of wealthy peasants, Pavlik found out that his father was hiding while people were starving. What is November 7th? The day of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
Russians don't use letter grades in school: what is the equivalent of an 'A'? Pyatorka-A Five What was the Aurora? A World War I Cruiser How does she describe visiting the Hermitage? You must put on cloth slippers, cinch them around your ankles, and glide slowly under the gaze of a million babushkas in the corner of every room, making sure you don't come too close to the royal china or priceless oils. What do the young pioneers wear around their necks? A Red Kerchief What are the various chores at the dacha throughout the summer? Watering and weeding, gathering and preserving.
In what kind of hut does the witch Baba Yaga live? Hut perched on chicken legs. Which famous theater was located two blocks from their Leningrad apartment? Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre Who was Yuri Gagarin? Soviet hero who flew his rocket around Earth. Through the narrator’s captivating voice, we learn not only the story of Russian life in the second half of the twentieth century, but also the story of one rebellious citizen whose love of a foreign language finally transports her into a new world.What and when was collectivism? 1929-1933 When Stalin purged all of the wealthy peasants and turned the country's agriculture into collective farms, sad villages of desperate, perpetually inebriated country folk presided over by Red Army officers whose only experience with farming was riding the horses the army had supplied. She recounts stories passed down to her about the horrors of Stalin’s terror and the Great Patriotic War and probes the daily deprivations and small joys of her family’s life in Leningrad. The narrator recreates the world that both oppressed and inspired her. A Mountain of Crumbs A Mountain of CrumbsĪ Mountain of Crumbs is the story of a young Soviet girl’s discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country’s profound, brazen lies.
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