Question
This man served as Soviet ambassador to Mongolia after earlier trying to oust Nikita Krushchev as a member of the Anti-Party Group. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Old Bolshevik, who led the Soviet analogue of the Marshall Plan in the Eastern Bloc.
ANSWER: Vyacheslav Molotov [or Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Skryabin]
[10h] This last surviving Old Bolshevik was the only Jewish member of Stalin’s Politburo. He gained the nickname “Iron” for his role in the Great Purge.
ANSWER: Lazar Kaganovich [or Lazar Moiseyevich Kahanovich; prompt on Iron Lazar]
[10e] Other Anti-Party rebels Georgy Malenkov and Dmitri Shepilov were sent to perform functions in this country. The Baikonur Cosmodrome was in this large Central Asian country ruled by Nursultan Nazarabeyev.
ANSWER: Kazakhstan [or Republic of Kazakhstan; or Qazaqstan Respublikasy; or Respublika Kazakhstan; accept Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]
<Elias Ziyadeh, European History>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Brown | MIT | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |