Introduction (Key Dates Inc And Overview)

Question 1

First World War

Answer 1

1914-1918

Question 2

Fall of Tsarist regime

Answer 2

March 1917

Question 3

Provisional government set up

Answer 3

March 1917

Question 4

Bolsheviks seized power in?

Answer 4

November 1917

Question 5

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Russia pulls out of WW1)

Answer 5

March 1919

Question 6

Russian Civil War

Answer 6

1918-21

Question 7

NEP introduced

Answer 7

1921

Question 8

Death of Lenin

Answer 8

1924

Question 9

Stalin launches First Five-Year Plan in?

Answer 9

1928

Question 10

The Great Purge starts in?

Answer 10

1936

Question 11

Nazi Germany invades the USSR.

Answer 11

1941

Question 12

The Great Patriotic War. (For Russia)

Answer 12

1941-45

Question 13

The Cold War between the USSR and the US develops in?

Answer 13

1945-49

Question 14

Death of Stalin.

Answer 14

1953

Question 15

Khrushchev starts de-stalinisation

Answer 15

1956

Question 16

Cuban Missile Crisis.

Answer 16

1962

Question 17

Khrushchev is sacked as Soviet leader and replaced by Brezhnev.

Answer 17

1964

Question 18

Death of Brezhnev

Answer 18

1982

Question 19

Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader.

Answer 19

1985

Question 20

Fall of Berlin Wall. Communist regimes collapse in Eastern Europe.

Answer 20

1989

Question 21

Attempted army coup to seize power from Gorbachev.

Answer 21

1991

Question 22

The Soviet Union is formally disbanded.

Answer 22

December 1991

Question 23

Karl Marx 1848 quote about workers.

Answer 23

‘Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.’

Question 24

Who were the Bolsheviks?

Answer 24

A political group devoted to the promotion of Marx’s ideas of revolution in the name of the industrial workers.

Question 25

Who was the Bolshevik party led by?

Answer 25

Vladimir Lenin

Question 26

How did the Bolsheviks seize power in November 1917?

Answer 26

By means of an armed seizure of power in a well-executed coup d’etat.

Question 27

Why was it relatively easy for the Bolsheviks to seize power from the Provisional Government?

Answer 27

Provisional government was undermined by the pressures of WW1.

Question 28

Who consisted of the mixed association of groups who faced the Bolsheviks in the Civil War?

Answer 28

Whites

Question 29

Industrial Revolution definition.

Answer 29

The change from industry organised largely through small workshops of craft workers to a system based on factory production using machines.

Question 30

What were Marx’s ideas?

Answer 30

Believed that industrial workers should seize power from the people who owned factories, businesses and land.
All property could then be owned by the government on behalf of ‘the people’, a system termed ‘socialism’.
From this phase Communism would develop whereby people co-operated and worked collectively.

Question 31

NEP

Answer 31

New Economic Policy

Question 32

Define NEP.

Answer 32

Policy introduced in 1921 to restore the economy after the civil war.
Involved using privately owned small-scale trading and shops.

Question 33

Define The Great Patriotic War.

Answer 33

Term used in Russia for WW2.
Began from Nazi invasion of 1941 until Soviet victory in 1945.