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Extra: Russia SFD Flashcards

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1
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What was the population of Russia?

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125.6 million

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2
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How many people spoke Russian in 1897?

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55 million out of 125.6 million

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3
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How many people living in Russia were peasants?

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93.7 million

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4
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How many of the 125.6 million owned most of the wealth?

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1 million

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5
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How large was the Russian empire?

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22.3 million squared kilometres

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6
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What percentage of all factory workers worked in Moscow?

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50%

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7
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Where were people exiled by the tsar?

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Siberia, 3000 miles away

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8
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When did the Tsar and Tsarina hear of Rasputin and when was Alexi ill?

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They heard of Rasputin in 1905 and in 1907 Alexi was ill and Rasputin was called for.

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9
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By August 1915 how many people in the First World War died?

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2 million

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10
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How many people were in the army (in millions) in 1914?

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6.5 million

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11
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How many men were in the army (in millions) in 1917?

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15.1 million

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12
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How many more people lived in towns from 1914 to 1917?

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6 million

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13
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How much did the crime rate rise by from 1914 to 1917?

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It was 3 times more in 1917 than in 1914

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14
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What happened the day after international women’s day?

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150,000 workers took to the streets armed with tools and metal bars.

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15
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What happened on Saturday 25th February?

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About 200,000 took to the streets with red flags and banners

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16
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What did soldiers and workers take from the weapons store in the February revolution?

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40,000 rifles and 30,000 revolvers

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17
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How far from St Petersburg did the Tsars train get stopped?

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145km from St Petersburg because the next station was held by revolutionaries.

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18
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By June 1917 how were newspapers acting towards the PG?

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41 Bolshevik newspapers in the major cities were criticising the PG

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19
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How many Bolshevik Red Guards were there in Petrograd?

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By July 1917 there were 10,000

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20
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How much bread did a Manual Worker’s daily ration get in 1917?

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March: 750g
April: 375g
Sept: 250g
Oct: 125g

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21
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How many followers did Kornilov have in his revolt?

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7000

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What were the results of the Constituent Assembly elections on the 12th November 1917?

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Socialist revolutionary party: 17,490,000
Bolsheviks: 9,844,000
Constitutional Democratic Party: 2,000,000

(Bolsheviks only had 25% of members)

23
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What is the difference between the Red Guard and Red Army?

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Red Guard: fighting units set up by the Bolsheviks, never numbered more than 10,000

Red Army: based on the Red Guard and had about 5 million trained soldiers

24
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How many executions had the Cheka completed in 1918?

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6,300

25
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What was factory production (in millions of roubles) in 1913,1921 and 1924?

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1913: 10,251
1921: 1,401
1924: 4,660

26
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In the NEP how many experts were brought in from other countries?

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Between 1920 and 1925, 20,000 came from the US and Canada

27
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How did the NEP change grain production (1922 and 1924)?

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1922: 77.7 million hectares
1924: 98.1 million hectares

28
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How did the NEP affect factory production? (1921 and 1926)

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June 1921: 99% of all cotton mills were not working

1926: 90% of cotton mills were working

29
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By the end of 1920 how many people had the Cheka sent to prison camps?

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250,000

30
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How many were in Gulags in 1928 and the 1938?

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1928: 30,000
1938: 7 million

31
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How many people did the OGPU arrest for ‘trial’?

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40,000

32
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What happened to the 11 heroes of 1917 (old bolsheviks)?

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By the end of 1938: five had been executed, one was in a gulag, one was dead of natural causes, Trotsky was in exile, one had left to live in the USA in 1918 and two had been sent abroad as diplomats

NONE REMAINED IN GOVERNMENT!

33
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How many people did Stalins purges kill and how many did they send to prison?

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About a million people were killed and seven million people were sent to prison.

34
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What useful people did the state lose as a result of Stalin’s purges? (Including statistics and facts)

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  • 1 million of the 3 million members of the party
  • 93 of the 139 Central Committee members
  • 13 of the 15 top generals in the red army
35
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Who was Sergei Eisenstein?

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He was a cartoonist for a Bolshevik newspaper and worked in ‘low’ culture theatres in the 1920s.

He made one film about 1905 revolution then one about the October revolution but it mentioned Trotsky so had to be censored

From 1928 to 1930 he toured Europe and the USA but when he returned his work was criticised as being too ‘high’
- He had to go back to low films or risk becoming an enemy of the state.

36
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How many people lived on a Kolkhoz farm?

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On an 80-hectare farm , a brigade was about 15 families

37
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How many days a year did someone work for the state?

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About 140 days a year

38
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In the years 1930 and 1931 how many farms were dekulakised?

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600,000 (chosen by the village committees and sometimes the army)

39
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Because the peasants destroyed their crops, how many people were effected by the famine caused by collectivisation?

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3 million people starved during the famine

40
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By 1035 what percentage of land was collectivised?

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95% (not a complete failure)

41
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Between 1929 and 1933 what happen to the numbers of animals as a result of collectivisation?

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Half the pigs and over a quarter of the cows were slaughtered

42
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Why was Alexei Stakhanov famous?

A
  • Target for a coal miner was to mine 7 tonnes of coal in a 6-hour shift
  • Stakhanov mined 102 tonnes in his shift
43
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Give a case study including facts and statistics to show how industrialisation had succeeded:

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-in 1929 there were 1157 people living in temporary huts in Magnitogorsk beginning work on the town
-by 1932 there were 100,000 people living there;
-they had brick-built houses, paved roads, electricity and drains
There were several factories, iron and steel works, shops, a school and a hospital

44
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How did the number of people living in cities change from 1929 to 1939?

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In 1929, 26 million people lived in cities but in 1939, 56 million people lived in cities (almost a third of the population)

45
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Give a case study of how industrialisation was not a success with info and facts:

A

The Stalingrad tractor factory:

  • it’s production target was 500 tractors a month but by the end of September 1930 it had produced 43
  • the average life of one of these tractors was 70 hours then it started to fall apart
46
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Explain how the Stalingrad factory overcame its early problems:

A

GOSPLAN begun to ease off pressure of rapid production
-by 1939 it produced half the tractors in the USSR

  • Tractor production in the USSR went from 1300 in 1928 to 50,000 in 1932 to 112,900 in 1936 (many of these working for many years)
47
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How did the number of churches change over time?

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In 1915 there were 54,000 but in 1940 there were 500

48
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What percentage of state officials live in a one room flat in 1940?

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61.3%

49
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How did the amount of space for workers in flats change from 1926 to 1939?

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It dropped steadily from 5.4 sq m in 1926 to 4.3 sq m in 1939

50
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How did the numbers of women working change from 1928 to 1940?

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In 1928 3 million women worked, mostly in farming or as domestic servants

In 1940, there were over 13 million women working in all types of industry, including the building industry

51
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How many peasants had no land?

A

Over 45 million

52
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When did food rationing start in Petrograd?

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19th of February 1917

53
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By June 1919 how many had been arrested or shot by the Cheka?

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87000 arrested and 8339 shot

GCSE HISTORY (6 decks)

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