Lenin's Foreign Policy

Question 1

What was Lenins style of approach to foreign policy?

Answer 1

Reaslistic / Pragmatic

Question 2

When was Russia defeated by Poland?

Answer 2

1920

Question 3

What 3 factors influenced Lenins approach to foreign policy?

Answer 3

1) Defeat to Poland 1920
2) Level of foreign intervention in Civil War
3) Failure of Communist revolutions around the world (Germany + Hungary)

Question 4

What 2 countries did Communist revolutions fail in?

Answer 4

Germany

Hungary

Question 5

What did the failure of Communist revolutions in other countries tell Lenin?

Answer 5

The time wasn’t right for world revolution

Question 6

Because Capitalist nations were still too strong, what approach did Lenin now have to take?

Answer 6

A ‘soft’ approach

Question 7

What did a ‘soft’ approach to foreign affairs mean?

Answer 7

To be diplomatic to international relations

Question 8

When was the Treaty of Rapallo signed?

Answer 8

April 1922

Question 9

Who was the Treaty of Rapallo between?

Answer 9

Russia and Germany

Question 10

Russia and Germany were both classed as what around 1922?

Answer 10

Pariahs

Question 11

Why was the Treaty of Rapallo signed?

Answer 11

A conference in Genoa broke down and Russia and Germany both left

Question 12

What was the Treaty of Rapallo intended to do?

Answer 12

Improve financial dealings among European states

Question 13

What were the terms of the Treaty of Rapallo?

Answer 13

Russia would provide German forces with training grounds and resources

Russia would be granted special trading rights with Germany in return

Question 14

When was the Treaty of Berlin signed?

Answer 14

1926

Question 15

What did the Treaty of Berlin do?

Answer 15

Further Soviet-German agreement

Non-agression pact

Question 16

What was the Comintern?

Answer 16

Communist International body

Question 17

Where was the Comintern set up?

Answer 17

Moscow

Question 18

When was the Comintern set up?

Answer 18

March 1919

Question 19

Why was the Comintern set up?

Answer 19

To organise worldwide revolution

Question 20

Who was Grigor Zinoviev?

Answer 20

Chief of the Comintern

Question 21

When was the Zinoviev letter published?

Answer 21

1924

Question 22

Who was the Zinoviev letter addressed to?

Answer 22

The British Communist Party

Question 23

What did the Zinoviev letter encourage British Communist Party members to do?

Answer 23

Infiltrate the Labour Party (under the cover of the Anglo-Soviet treaty) to bring down the British state in an armed insurrection

Question 24

What was the Anglo-Soviet treaty?

Answer 24

Trade and diplomatic agreement between Britain and The Soviet Union

Question 25

What were the terms of the Anglo-Soviet treaty?

Answer 25

Britain agreed to advance a £30 million loan to the Soviet Union

In return the Soviet Union would pay compensation for the British financial assets the Bolsheviks had seized after the October Revolution in 1917

Question 26

Who did Zinoviev claim forged the Zinoviev letter?

Answer 26

The White Russian émigrés

Question 27

Who were the White Russian émigrés?

Answer 27

Anti-Bolsheviks who fled from Russia during the years following the 1917 October Revolution

Question 28

Was the Anglo-Soviet Treaty ever ratified?

Answer 28

No

Question 29

Why was the Anglo-Soviet Treaty never ratified?

Answer 29

The Labour Party lost the election as the Zinoviev letter was used as ammunition for those who believed relations between Labour and revolutionary Russia were too close for Britain’s good

The Conservatives were elected who were unwilling to continue negotiations

Question 30

Which countries intervened in the Russian Civil War?

Answer 30

Britain
France
Japan
USA
Italy
Czech Republic
Finland
Lithuania
Poland
Romania