First Six Months Pt3

Question 1

Bolsheviks won … seats in the new Constituent Assembly

Answer 1

175 seats (24% of votes)

Question 2

Socialist Revolutionaries won majority of …

Answer 2

370 seats out of 707 seats

Question 3

Lenin on the Bolsheviks failure in the election:

Answer 3

“The interests of the Revolution stand higher than the formal rights of the Constituent Assembly”

Question 4

Constituent Assembly closed:

Answer 4

5-6 January 1918

Question 5

Pipes on the CA:

Answer 5

For the Bolsheviks, “the machine gun became the … principal instrument of political persuasion”

Question 6

Trotsky on the Brest-Litvosk:

Answer 6

“Neither peace nor war”

Question 7

Hindenburg on Trotsky and Lenin:

Answer 7

They “behaved more like victors than vanquished”

Question 8

Germany sends unapposed troops into Russia on:

Answer 8

18 February 1918

Question 9

Treaty of Brest-Litvosk:

Answer 9

3 March 1918

Question 10

Russia lost in the treaty:

Answer 10

62 million people; 1/6 of the population

Question 11

Russia lost economically:

Answer 11

74% of iron ore and coal reserves

Had to pay Germany 3 billion roubles in reparations