Chapter 1 - Opposition - Workers

Question 1

OPPOSITION (WORKERS): ALEXANDER III

Answer 1

OPPOSITION (WORKERS): ALEXANDER III

Question 2

How many workers participated in a strike at the Morozov dye works in 1885?

Answer 2

8000 workers

Question 3

When were the strikes at Morozov dye works?

Answer 3

7th January 1885 to 18th January 1885

Question 4

How many of the 8000 workers were arrested from the Morozov dye works and how many were put on trial?

Answer 4

600 - 33 put on trial

Question 5

OPPOSITION (WORKERS): NICHOLAS II

Answer 5

OPPOSITION (WORKERS): NICHOLAS II

Question 6

What started the 1905 revolution?

Answer 6

A strike at the Putillov artillery factory in December 1904

Question 7

By January 1905 how many workers participated in sympathy strikes?

Answer 7

150,000

Question 8

In how many factories were there striking workers in January 1905?

Answer 8

382

Question 9

What did workers form in 1905 when it looked like the government was going to collapse?

Answer 9

Soviets

Question 10

How many were killed when the government repressed the 1905 revolution?

Answer 10

14,000

Question 11

What started the February revolution?

Answer 11

Strikes at the Putillov artillery works

Question 12

How many workers took part in the strikes at the Putillov artillery works in February 1917?

Answer 12

100,000

Question 13

How many workers were striking in St Petersburg by the end of February 1917?

Answer 13

500,000

Question 14

How many soldiers deserted the army and joined the February revolution strikes?

Answer 14

150,000

Question 15

OPPOSITION (WORKERS): PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT

Answer 15

OPPOSITION (WORKERS): PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT

Question 16

What did workers form after the February revolution which were never controlled by the Provisional Government?

Answer 16

The Petrograd Soviet

Question 17

How many workers took part in the July Days?

Answer 17

500,000

Question 18

Who led the workers in the overthrow of the Provisional Government?

Answer 18

The Bolsheviks

Question 19

OPPOSITION (WORKERS): LENIN

Answer 19

OPPOSITION (WORKERS): LENIN

Question 20

What resulted in many peasants moving from agricultural work to industrial work under Lenin?

Answer 20

Many workers died in the Russian Civil War

Question 21

Why was there little industrial unrest under Lenin?

Answer 21

The new workers were ill-educated and ill-disciplined

Question 22

OPPOSITION (WORKERS): STALIN

Answer 22

OPPOSITION (WORKERS: STALIN

Question 23

What did production targets under Stalin lead to?

Answer 23

An increase in worker suicide rates

Question 24

What did Stalin’s purges remove?

Answer 24

Disruptive trade union officials

Question 25

What was there none of in WW2, which there had been in WW1?

Answer 25

Strikes

Question 26

OPPOSITION (WORKERS): KHRUSHCHEV

Answer 26

OPPOSITION (WORKERS): KHRUSHCHEV

Question 27

Where were there food riots in 1962?

Answer 27

Novocherkassk

Question 28

How many were executed as a result of the riots at Novocherkassk?

Answer 28

23