Chapter 3.5 - The impact of the Russian Revolution 1917

Question 1

Chapter 3.5 - Russian Revolution 1917

Answer 1

chapter 3.5

Question 2

Political Impacts of the 1917 October Revolution:
What was established after the revolution?

Answer 2

The dictatorship of the proletariat

Question 3

When was the provisional government overthrown?

Answer 3

October 1917

Question 4

What was overthrown in January 1918?

Answer 4

The Constituent Assembly

Question 5

What did the 1918 Constitution allow elections to?

Answer 5

The All-Russian Congress of Soviets

Question 6

What was leadership of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets called?

Answer 6

The Central Executive Committee

Question 7

What were there elections for, which was chaired by Lenin?

Answer 7

The Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom)

Question 8

What were the 3 offices in the Central Executive Committee?

Answer 8

• Politburo
• Ogburo
• Orgburo

Question 9

What was the Politburo?

Answer 9

A small, elite group that formulated policy

Question 10

What did the Orgburo run?

Answer 10

The Bolshevik Party

Question 11

What did the Ogburo run?

Answer 11

The Cheka

Question 12

What did the Cheka victimise people on?

Answer 12

Who they were, not what they had done

Question 13

How many people did the Cheka execute per year from 1917 to 1922?

Answer 13

28,000

Question 14

When was press freedom abolished?

Answer 14

1918

Question 15

What newspaper was created by the Bolsheviks?

Answer 15

Pravda (truth)

Question 16

What was set up in 1921 to distribute propaganda?

Answer 16

Agitprop

Question 17

What was signed in March 1918?

Answer 17

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Question 18

Economic Impacts of the 1917 October Revolution:
What was the November 1917 Decree on Land?

Answer 18

Private property was abolished and land in the countryside was to be given to the peasants

Question 19

What was formed in December 1917?

Answer 19

The Supreme Economic Council (SEC)

Question 20

What was the role of the Supreme Economic Council?

Answer 20

To manage all the businesses which had been nationalised (30,000)

Question 21

What was the November 1918 Decree on Workers Control?

Answer 21

Workers were given the power to run factories

Question 22

Social Impacts of the 1917 October Revolution:
What was legalised in 1918?

Answer 22

Abortion - birth rate declined

Question 23

When were civil marriages legalised?

Answer 23

1918

Question 24

What meant that workers were fined for mistakes?

Answer 24

The New Work Discipline

Question 25

What happened to workers if they were deemed ‘anti-revolutionary’?

Answer 25

They were shot