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Question 1

When did the tsar and his family get killed

Answer 1

17 July 1918

Question 2

What is the unofficial government after the tsar

Answer 2

Petrograd soviet

Question 3

What is the official government after the tsar

Answer 3

Provisional government

Question 4

What is war communism

Answer 4

The harsh economic system that the Bolshevik implanted during the civil war

Question 5

What did Lenin describe the knonstard navel revolt as and what did it mean

Answer 5

‘A flash that lit up reality’. It meant that he had a realisation of what is actually happening in Russia

Question 6

What would a fully communist society look like

Answer 6

Wealth redistribution 
Abolishing privet property 
No inheritance 
No privet trade
No religion 
Gender equality 
Propaganda in early stages

Question 7

What were the positive impacts of the NEP on workers

Answer 7

There wages rose

They were able to buy more expensive stuff

Question 8

What was the new name of Lenin’s economic policy

Answer 8

NEP

Question 9

What years did war communism last for

Answer 9

1918-1921

Question 10

When did Lenin die and what age

Answer 10

21 of January 1924 at the age of 53

Question 11

What are the strengths of the Bolshevik

Answer 11

Armed with weapons

The red guards were strong

Question 12

What are the weakness of the provisional government

Answer 12

Don’t have support of the army

Question 13

What is the red terror

Answer 13

Lenin sending the chaka (secret police) to create a sense of fear about opposing governments leading to them killing 100,000-200,000 people

Question 14

What is properganda

Answer 14

Information,especially of a biased or misleading nature used to promote a political point of view

Question 15

What was the name of the official government set up after the
abdication of the Tsar?

Answer 15

Provisional government

Question 16

What was the unofficial government set up after the Tsar?

Answer 16

Petrograd soviet

Question 17

What is the name given to the idea of the two governments

working together?

Answer 17

Dual Government

Question 18

What is the name given to Lenin’s ideas?

Answer 18

April Theses

Question 19

What was the “White terror”?

Answer 19

Fear of the harshness of the whites based on previous harsh actions
and Red propaganda.

Question 20

What 3 things did he promise?

Answer 20

“Peace, bread, land”

Question 21

What are the July Days?

Answer 21

3 days of rioting in Petrograd by Bolsheviks and deserting soldiers.

Question 22

What happened to the Bolsheviks after the July Days?

Answer 22

Many of them were exiled or imprisoned.

Question 23

Which military leader led a revolt against the Provisional

Government?

Answer 23

General Kornilov

Question 24

What was the result of this revolt for the Bolsheviks?

Answer 24

They were seen as heroes.

Question 25

What was the name of the Bolsheviks’ armed force?

Answer 25

Red guard

Question 26

How many people signed up to join the Bolshevik armed forces

Answer 26

25,000

Question 27

What were the names of the two sides of the Russian Civil War?

Answer 27

Reds and Whites.

Question 28

Name two groups on the side of the Whites

Answer 28

Foreign powers (including America, Britain, France, Japan), Aristocracy,
Religious groups, Czech Legion, Royalists

Question 29

Name one leader of a White army

Answer 29

Deniken, Wrangel, Yudenich, Kolchak

Question 30

What was the name of the Bolsheviks’ armed force changed to?

Answer 30

Red army

Question 31

What was war Communism?

Answer 31

A strict version of Communism used to share out food in the Civil War

Question 32

What was the New Economic Policy?

Answer 32

A form of Communism which encouraged trade and modernisation.

Question 33

How many people died during a famine in 1921?

Answer 33

5 million

Question 34

What did Russia change its name to in December 1922?

Answer 34

USSR