1917-'33 Flashcards
When did Lenin set up the Comintern
March 1919
Who was in charge of the Comintern
Grigori Zinoviev
When did the Bolsheviks seize power in Russia
October 1917
When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed
March 1918
When did WW1 end
11 November 1918
When was the Spartacist Rising in Berlin
January 1919
When was the Paris Peace Conference
Jan 1919- Jan 1920
Trotsky quote
“Either the Russian Revolution will create a revolutionary movement in Europe, or the European powers will destroy the Russian Revolution.”
Trotsky quote
“Either the Russian Revolution will create a revolutionary movement in Europe, or the European powers will destroy the Russian Revolution.”
When was “The Communist Manifesto” published
1848
When was the Russian Civil War
1918-‘21
What year was the Russo Polish War
1920
When was the Treaty of Riga concluded
18 March 1921
What year was the NEP (New Economic Policy) introduced
1921
Which Historian said that the USSR were “working with the West whilst trying to destroy them”
Lee
What year was the Treaty of Rapalloo signed
1922
What was the Treaty of Rapallo
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
When was the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement
16 March 1921
When was the Genoa Conference
April to May 1922
Which politician said that Bolshevism should be “strangled in the cradle”
Winston Churchill
How many Allied countries intervened on the side of the Whites in the Russian Civil War
14
By 1919, how much money had the British given to the Whites in the Russian Civil War
£45.5 million
When was the Curzon Ultimatum
29 May 1923
What was the Curzon Ultimaum
British demanded that Lenin halt all revolutionary activity in return for Britain restoring pre-war aid, threatening to cancel ASTA if not
When did the USSR get formal recognition from Germany
1922
When did the USSR get formal recognition from Britain
1924
When did the USSR get formal recognition from the USA
1933
When did Lenin die
21 January 1924
When was the Dawes Plan
April 1924
When was the Locarno Treaty
December 1925
What year was ‘Socialism in One Country’
1926
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.”
1931
What year was Stalin’s “left turn”
1929
What was Stalin’s “left turn”
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”
What year did Stalin launch his multifaceted “Second Revolution”
1928
What time period was the first 5yr plan
1924-‘28
When was the Kellogg-Briandt Pact
27 August 1928
What was the Kellogg Briandt Pact
it eliminated war as an instrument of national policy
How many nations signed the Kellogg-Briandt Pact
15
When was the Litvinov Protocol
9 Feb 1929
What was the Litvinov Protocol
international peace treaty
Who signed the Litvinov protocol (5)
USSR, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Romania
What year was the Treaty of Berlin
1926
June 1926, through the Treaty of Berlin, German banks made available credits to the Soviet Union amounting to how many German marks
300 million marks
What year was the Wall Street Crash
1929
What was the Dawes Plan and who signed it
Signed by Br, Fr and US to restructure Germany’s reparations payments
What year was Germany invited to the League of Nations
1926
There was a rise of fascism across Europe in the 1920s, especially in which 3 states
Italy, Germany and Spain
When did France sign a Non-Aggression Pact with the USSR
November 1932
When was the Zinoviev letter published in the Daily Mail
25 October 1924
What was the Zinoviev letter
A MI5 forgery leading to anti-communist hysteria in Britain
When was the German-Soviet Economic Agreement
October 1925
When was the Soviet Union invited to the League of Nations
1934
What year was the Treaty of Berlin renewed
1931
