Civil War

Question 1

Why were other nations frustrated with Russia post-WW1?

Answer 1

The Bolsheviks were neither paying the Tsar’s debts nor honouring their side in WW1.

Question 2

Leader of the Comintern during Civil War

Answer 2

Zinoviev

Question 3

Nations who intervened as a result of the establishment of the Comintern

Answer 3

Britain, France, America

Question 4

Launching points for foreign interventions in the Civil War

Answer 4

Archangel, Ukraine, Vladivostok

Question 5

How many soldiers made up the Czech Legion?

Answer 5

40,000

Question 6

Czech legion sought to gain independence from …. and so they….

Answer 6

Austria-Hungary, fought in WW1

Question 7

Why did the Czech Legion become isolated post-OctoberRev?

Answer 7

The treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Question 8

Four groups of enemies who posed domestic challenges to the Bolsheviks

Answer 8

Tsarists and landowners, Patriotic Russians, ProvGov & Menshev supporters, SR’s

Question 9

Tsarist supporters and landowners wanted….

Answer 9

The reversal of peasant land seizures, return of the Tsar Nicholas II.

Question 10

Patriotic Russians were…

Answer 10

Kadets and Conservative (Right) forces

Question 11

Why did Brest-Litovsk anger Right forces and split the Bolshevik party?

Answer 11

Much of Russia’s best agricultural land was lost to Germany (Ukraine, estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)

Question 12

The SR’s claimed that they were the legitimate government because…

Answer 12

They had won a majority in the dissolved Constituent Assembly

Question 13

What did Lenin favour instead of the Constituent Assembly?

Answer 13

Political terror and soviet rule.

Question 14

Kerenskyists advocated…

Answer 14

The return of the Constituent Assembly.

Question 15

Aim of the Reds in the Civil War

Answer 15

To remain in power

Question 16

Why the Reds had an inherent advantage in the Civil War

Answer 16

Their aim was so clear and they were unified around it

Question 17

Supporters of the Reds during the Civil War

Answer 17

Kronstadt sailors, Red Guards, volunteer workers, soldiers from former imperial army

Question 18

Nature of the White side during Civil War

Answer 18

Divided. An umbrella group

Question 19

One idea the Whites were united around

Answer 19

Opposed to Bolshevik Government

Question 20

2 Main ideas the Whites favoured as an alternative to Bolshevism

Answer 20

Military Dictatorship or Constituent Assembly Rule

Question 21

Within the Whites the liberals favoured…

Answer 21

Military Dictatorship

Question 22

Within the Whites the SR’s favoured…

Answer 22

Constituent Assembly Rule

Question 23

Some groups who supported the Whites included…

Answer 23

liberals, former tsarists, nationalists, separatists, socialist revolutionaries and other moderate socialists

Question 24

The White armies would often…

Answer 24

fight one another.

Question 25

Four of the more significant White armies

Answer 25

Yudenich's army, Southern Volunteer Army, The Komuch, The Omsk Government

Question 26

Size, location of Yudenich's Army

Answer 26

Small, NW. Attacked Reds out of Estonia

Question 27

Generals who formed the Southern Volunteer Army

Answer 27

Kornilov and Alekseev

Question 28

General who managed the Southern Volunteer Army post-1918

Answer 28

Denikin

Question 29

Membership of the Komuch

Answer 29

Committee of members of the Constituent Assembly, mainly SRs

Question 30

The Komuch claimed they were...

Answer 30

the legitimately elected government

Question 31

Location of the Komuch

Answer 31

Samara, on the river Volga

Question 32

The Omsk Government was mainly... who favoured....

Answer 32

Rightists, monarchy or military dictatorship

Question 33

Nominal leader of the Omsk Government

Answer 33

Admiral Kolchak

Question 34

The Bolsheviks allowed the Czech Legion to pass through Siberia to continue fighting their enemies on the Western Front in...

Answer 34

March 1918