Fact Test 6: War Communism

Question 1

What were the aims of war communism?

Answer 1

Win the Civil War by keeping the towns and the Red Army supplied with food and weapons and to put Communist theories into practice by redistributing (sharing out) wealth among the Russian people.

Question 2

What happened to large factories during war communism?

Answer 2

Taken over by the government.

Question 3

What could happen to strikers during war communism?

Answer 3

They could be shot

Question 4

What did peasants have to do with surplus food?

Answer 4

Hand over surplus food or they could be shot

Question 5

What were the groups of soldiers/workers called who seized grain called?

Answer 5

Requisition squads

Question 6

What was the 4.3.2.1 ratio of rationing?

Answer 6

Soldiers, workers, middle class, formerly wealthy

Question 7

What % of its population did Petrograd lose?

Answer 7

70%

Question 8

The cost of a train journey in November 1922 was how much higher than in June 1917?

Answer 8

4 million times

Question 9

When was the famine?

Answer 9

1921-1922

Question 10

When and where was the last White Army defeated?

Answer 10

1920 in the Crimea

Question 11

Where did peasants revolt against war communism?

Answer 11

Tambov

Question 12

When was the Kronstadt naval revolt?

Answer 12

March 1921

Question 13

What did the Kronstadt sailors demand?

Answer 13

New elections to the Soviets with a secret vote.

Freedom of speech and press.

Freedom to meet for trade unions and peasant groups.

Freedom for peasants to farm their land.