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1
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When was the Bolshevik Party established?

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In 1903

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2
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When did the Tsarist regime collapse?

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In February 1917

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3
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When did Tsar Nicholas assume power?

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1894

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4
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What is the proletariat?

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Industrial workers, a new lass that emerged as a result of the Industrial revolution

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5
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What is the bourgeoisie?

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The owners of factories, industries and shops, those who own the means of production

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6
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What is dictatorship of the proletariat?

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A government that rules on behalf of the working class

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7
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What are economic systems in Marx’s view of historical change?

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Primitive communism 
Feudalism 
Capitalism
Socialism
Communism
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8
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When was the October Revolution?

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1917

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9
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What was the October Revolution?

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A revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.

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10
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Who was guarding the palace at the time the Bolsheviks stormed the palace?

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The Woman’s Death Battalion

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11
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What caused the October Revolution?

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Weakness of the Provisional Government, economic and social problems and continuation of the war

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12
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What was Communist rule under the Bolsheviks supposed to be?

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Authoritarian, highly-centralised and supplemented by heavy use of terror

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13
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When did the Tsar Nicholas II abdicate?

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1917

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14
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What does Tsar mean?

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The title of Russian monarchs

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15
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When was Bloody Sunday?

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1905, also known as a revolution

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16
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Why was the Duma and October Manifesto created?

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As as a result of strikes and mutiny led by the peasantry who were angered by the way in which the Tsar’s guards handled the protest at Bloody Sunday

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17
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When was the October Manifesto issued?

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In October 1905, he promised freedom of speech and a Duma

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18
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When was the Fundamental Law passed by Nicholas?

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In 1906, this gave the Tsar overall say over the Duma

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19
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Who were the Bolsheviks?

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A Russian communist party

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20
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What was a peasant?

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A working class who farmed in rural areas

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21
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Where did the name Bolsheviks derive from?

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‘Russian Social Democratic Labour Party’

22
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When and why was the Bolsheviks Party?

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Founded in 1898 to oppose tsarism and the power of the middle classes

23
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When did the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split?

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In 1903, into the Mensheviks and and Bolsheviks

24
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What did the Bolsheviks believe about the revolution?

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They believed it should be organised by a small party elite

25
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What three things did Lenin promise?

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Peace
Bread
Land

26
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What was Dual Power?

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A situation in which the old Duma (PG) were sharing power with the Petrograd Soviet

27
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Who led the old Duma?

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Alexander Kerensky

28
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What was soviet order 1?

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Ordered all soldiers to obey the petrograd soviet

29
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When did the Constituency Assembly take place?

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November 1918

30
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What was the result of the Constituency Assembly?

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Socialist Revolutionaries: 370 deputies

Bolsheviks: 175 deputies

31
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When did the Bolshevik Party rename itself?

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In 1918, to the Communist Party

32
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What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? (1918)

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A peace treaty signed by Russia which put an end to Russian involvement in WW1

33
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What are some consequences of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

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Russia had to pay 3 billion roubles

Russia lost 1 million sq km of land populated with about 50 million people

Lost Ukraine, where most of its grain came from

34
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What range of political groups did the White opposition include?

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Tsarists, liberals, supporters of the provisional government, military leaders disgruntled about the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

35
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When did the Bolsheviks defeat the Whites?

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In 1920, secured communist rule over the country

36
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Who were the Whites?

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Those opposed to the Bolsheviks during the civil war

37
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How long did the Russian civil war last?

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From 1918-21

38
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Why did the Bolsheviks win the civil war?

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Reds had the industrialised area of Russia, so could produce munitions and war supplies

Reds had control of railway lines, so could send supplies

The Whites were divided & geographically scattered

39
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Who ruled in Russia from 1894-1917?

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Tsar Nicholas II

40
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When did Alexander Kerensky rule?

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1917

41
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How long did Vladmir Lenin rule?

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From 1917-1924

42
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Who ruled from 1929-1953?

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Joseph Stalin

43
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Who ruled from 1953-1964?

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Nikita Khrushchev

44
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How long did Leonid Brezhnev rule?

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1964-1982

45
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How long did Yuri Andropov rule?

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1982-1984

46
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How long did Konstantin Cherneko rule?

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1984-1985

47
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Who ruled from 1985-1991?

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Mikhail Gorbachev

48
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Who ruled from 1991-1999?

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Boris Yeltsin

49
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Who were the Socialist Revolutionaries?

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A group committed to democratic socialism who believed in the right of groups to govern themselves

50
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Which groups opposed the Bolshevik Party?

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SRs, Mensheviks
Nationalist groups within the Russian Empire
Tsarists supporters

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