Life in communist Russia

Question 1

Tsar

Answer 1

An emperor. The last tsar of Russia was Nicholas II

Question 2

Bolshevik

Answer 2

Lenin and his followers were called Bolsheviks

Question 3

Reds

Answer 3

The red army fought for the Lenin’s Bolshevik government

Question 4

Whites

Answer 4

Anti-communist forces formed for the purpose of overthrowing the communists

Question 5

Peasants

Answer 5

A farmer or agricultural worker of low status

Question 6

Communism

Answer 6

A system of government where the state controls all aspects of the economy and of society, with limited rights for individuals

Question 7

Capitalism

Answer 7

An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods

Question 8

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 8

Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist

Question 9

Karl Marx

Answer 9

A German political thinker

Question 10

Cheka

Answer 10

The Bolsheviks’ secret police

Question 11

The Red Terror

Answer 11

During the civil war the Cheka ‘removed’ any person who was an ‘actual or potential threat’ to the government- so-called ‘enemies of the state’

Question 12

Leon Trotsky

Answer 12

Leader in the communist party

Question 13

USSR

Answer 13

Russia was renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

Question 14

Socialism in One Country

Answer 14

The plan to first strengthen communism in the USSR before spreading it further afield

Question 15

Collectivisation

Answer 15

The joining of small, unproductive farms together to create large, state-owned farms

Question 16

Kulaks

Answer 16

Wealthy independent farmers

Question 17

Gulags

Answer 17

Soviet forced labour camps

Question 18

Five Year Plans

Answer 18

A set of targets over a period of five years

Question 19

Dictator

Answer 19

Someone who has gained almost total control over their country and uses a variety of means, especially terror and propaganda, to hold on to power

Question 20

NKVD

Answer 20

In 1934 the Cheka were reorganized and renamed the NKVD

Question 21

Purges

Answer 21

To rid a group or organization of unwanted people

Question 22

Show Trials

Answer 22

A staged trial held in public to influence popular opinion

Question 23

Propaganda

Answer 23

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view

Question 24

Pravda

Answer 24

The communist Party newspaper. “truth”