1917-'33

Question 1

When did Lenin set up the Comintern

Answer 1

March 1919

Question 2

Who was in charge of the Comintern

Answer 2

Grigori Zinoviev

Question 3

When did the Bolsheviks seize power in Russia

Answer 3

October 1917

Question 4

When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed

Answer 4

March 1918

Question 5

When did WW1 end

Answer 5

11 November 1918

Question 6

When was the Spartacist Rising in Berlin

Answer 6

January 1919

Question 7

When was the Paris Peace Conference

Answer 7

Jan 1919- Jan 1920

Question 8

Trotsky quote

Answer 8

“Either the Russian Revolution will create a revolutionary movement in Europe, or the European powers will destroy the Russian Revolution.”

Question 8

Trotsky quote

Answer 8

“Either the Russian Revolution will create a revolutionary movement in Europe, or the European powers will destroy the Russian Revolution.”

Question 9

When was “The Communist Manifesto” published

Answer 9

1848

Question 10

When was the Russian Civil War

Answer 10

1918-‘21

Question 11

What year was the Russo Polish War

Answer 11

1920

Question 12

When was the Treaty of Riga concluded

Answer 12

18 March 1921

Question 13

What year was the NEP (New Economic Policy) introduced

Answer 13

1921

Question 14

Which Historian said that the USSR were “working with the West whilst trying to destroy them”

Answer 14

Lee

Question 15

What year was the Treaty of Rapalloo signed

Answer 15

1922

Question 16

What was the Treaty of Rapallo

Answer 16

signed by Germany and USSR, pariah states
They renounced all territorial and financial claims between themselves
Soviets also gained from econ expertise and preventing an anti-Bolshevik alliance between G and Br

Question 17

When was the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement

Answer 17

16 March 1921

Question 18

When was the Genoa Conference

Answer 18

April to May 1922

Question 19

Which politician said that Bolshevism should be “strangled in the cradle”

Answer 19

Winston Churchill

Question 20

How many Allied countries intervened on the side of the Whites in the Russian Civil War

Answer 20

14

Question 21

By 1919, how much money had the British given to the Whites in the Russian Civil War

Answer 21

£45.5 million

Question 22

When was the Curzon Ultimatum

Answer 22

29 May 1923

Question 23

What was the Curzon Ultimaum

Answer 23

British demanded that Lenin halt all revolutionary activity in return for Britain restoring pre-war aid, threatening to cancel ASTA if not

Question 24

When did the USSR get formal recognition from Germany

Answer 24

1922

Question 25

When did the USSR get formal recognition from Britain

Answer 25

1924

Question 26

When did the USSR get formal recognition from the USA

Answer 26

1933

Question 27

When did Lenin die

Answer 27

21 January 1924

Question 28

When was the Dawes Plan

Answer 28

April 1924

Question 29

When was the Locarno Treaty

Answer 29

December 1925

Question 30

What year was ‘Socialism in One Country’

Answer 30

1926

Question 31

What year did Stalin say “We are 50 to 100 yrs behind the capitalist West, either we make up the difference in 10 or be crushed.”

Answer 31

1931

Question 32

What year was Stalin’s “left turn”

Answer 32

1929

Question 33

What was Stalin’s “left turn”

Answer 33

All alliances between Moscow recognised Communist parties and other progressive parties were ordered to cease, with denunciations of individual socialist leaders such as Leon Blum as “social fascists”

Question 34

What year did Stalin launch his multifaceted “Second Revolution”

Answer 34

1928

Question 35

What time period was the first 5yr plan

Answer 35

1924-‘28

Question 36

When was the Kellogg-Briandt Pact

Answer 36

27 August 1928

Question 37

What was the Kellogg Briandt Pact

Answer 37

it eliminated war as an instrument of national policy

Question 38

How many nations signed the Kellogg-Briandt Pact

Answer 38

15

Question 39

When was the Litvinov Protocol

Answer 39

9 Feb 1929

Question 40

What was the Litvinov Protocol

Answer 40

international peace treaty

Question 41

Who signed the Litvinov protocol (5)

Answer 41

USSR, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Romania

Question 42

What year was the Treaty of Berlin

Answer 42

1926

Question 43

June 1926, through the Treaty of Berlin, German banks made available credits to the Soviet Union amounting to how many German marks

Answer 43

300 million marks

Question 44

What year was the Wall Street Crash

Answer 44

1929

Question 45

What was the Dawes Plan and who signed it

Answer 45

Signed by Br, Fr and US to restructure Germany’s reparations payments

Question 46

What year was Germany invited to the League of Nations

Answer 46

1926

Question 47

There was a rise of fascism across Europe in the 1920s, especially in which 3 states

Answer 47

Italy, Germany and Spain

Question 48

When did France sign a Non-Aggression Pact with the USSR

Answer 48

November 1932

Question 49

When was the Zinoviev letter published in the Daily Mail

Answer 49

25 October 1924

Question 50

What was the Zinoviev letter

Answer 50

A MI5 forgery leading to anti-communist hysteria in Britain

Question 51

When was the German-Soviet Economic Agreement

Answer 51

October 1925

Question 52

When was the Soviet Union invited to the League of Nations

Answer 52

1934

Question 53

What year was the Treaty of Berlin renewed

Answer 53

1931