Centralisation, Terror & Oppression

Question 1

When and why did the Red Terror begin

Answer 1

Attempted assassination of Lenin on 30th August 1918

Question 2

When was the Tsar executed

Answer 2

17 July 1918

Question 3

What was the official record of deaths at the hand of the Cheka

Answer 3

13,000

Question 4

What is the estimated number of deaths at the hand of the Cheka

Answer 4

500,000

Question 5

What percentage of prisoners in Moscow were children in 1920

Answer 5

5%

Question 6

How many uprising did the Cheka claim occurred in Feb 1921

Answer 6

118

Question 7

What was the state of Russia in 1921

Answer 7

Transport system collapsing
Factories couldn’t get resources
Low grain production - famine
Disease (Typhus, Cholera, Influenza)

Question 8

When was the Tambov uprising

Answer 8

Aug 1920 - June 1921

Question 9

Who led the Tambov uprising

Answer 9

Alexander Antonov

Question 10

Who was the leader of the Cheka

Answer 10

Felix Dzerzhinsky

Question 11

When was pre-publication censorship introduced

Answer 11

1922

Question 12

How many Mensheviks were arrested in 1921

Answer 12

5000

Question 13

When did the Cheka become the GPU

Answer 13

1922

Question 14

How many SR leaders were held at show trials and how many of them were exectued

Answer 14

34 tried
11 of them killed

Question 15

Villages that supported the Bolsheviks were rewarded with what?

Answer 15

Salt for food preservation

Question 16

What group was established in 1921 to oppose the church

Answer 16

Union of the militant godless

Question 17

When was the Politburo formed

Answer 17

1919

Question 18

In 1919 how did the composition of Soviets change

Answer 18

Leaders now appointed by central committee rather than elected by members

Question 19

What are the key factors that allowed for centralisation

Answer 19

Civil War
Collapse of Industry
Peasant oppression
Rail nationalisation

Question 20

When was the ban on factionalism agreed upon

Answer 20

1921 - 10th party congress

Question 21

What was the penalty for factionalism

Answer 21

Expulsion from the party

Question 22

Which factions were disliked by Lenin

Answer 22

Workers’ Opposition
Democratic Centralists

Question 23

What was the Nomenklatura (1923)

Answer 23

A list of 5500 party and governmental jobs, that were to be appointed

Question 24

How did the constitution describe the USSR

Answer 24

“a dictatorship of the urban and rural proletariat”

Question 25

When was the Federal USSR system set up

Answer 25

1922

Question 26

How many died in the Great Grain famine 1921

Answer 26

5 Million

Question 27

How much were bread rations cut by in January 1921

Answer 27

By a 1/3

Question 28

When was martial law imposed in Moscow and Petrograd to suppress worker opposition

Answer 28

Jan 1921

Question 29

What did Trotsky call the Kronstadt sailors in 1917

Answer 29

The ‘Pride and Glory’ of the revolution

Question 30

How did Lenin describe the Kronstadt rebellion

Answer 30

A White Plot

Question 31

How many were killed in the Kronstadt rebellion

Answer 31

10,000 rebels killed in battle
2,500 executed by Cheka