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Question 1

When was the Bolshevik Party established?

Answer 1

In 1903

Question 2

When did the Tsarist regime collapse?

Answer 2

In February 1917

Question 3

When did Tsar Nicholas assume power?

Answer 3

1894

Question 4

What is the proletariat?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is the bourgeoisie?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What is dictatorship of the proletariat?

Answer 6

A government that rules on behalf of the working class

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Primitive communism 
Feudalism 
Capitalism
Socialism
Communism

Question 8

When was the October Revolution?

Answer 8

1917

Question 9

What was the October Revolution?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

The Woman’s Death Battalion

Question 11

What caused the October Revolution?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What was Communist rule under the Bolsheviks supposed to be?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

When did the Tsar Nicholas II abdicate?

Answer 13

1917

Question 14

What does Tsar mean?

Answer 14

The title of Russian monarchs

Question 15

When was Bloody Sunday?

Answer 15

1905, also known as a revolution

Question 16

Why was the Duma and October Manifesto created?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

When was the October Manifesto issued?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

When was the Fundamental Law passed by Nicholas?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Who were the Bolsheviks?

Answer 19

A Russian communist party

Question 20

What was a peasant?

Answer 20

A working class who farmed in rural areas

Question 21

Where did the name Bolsheviks derive from?

Answer 21

‘Russian Social Democratic Labour Party’

Question 22

When and why was the Bolsheviks Party?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

When did the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split?

Answer 23

In 1903, into the Mensheviks and and Bolsheviks

Question 24

What did the Bolsheviks believe about the revolution?

Answer 24

They believed it should be organised by a small party elite

Question 25

What three things did Lenin promise?

Answer 25

Peace Bread Land

Question 26

What was Dual Power?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Who led the old Duma?

Answer 27

Alexander Kerensky

Question 28

What was soviet order 1?

Answer 28

Ordered all soldiers to obey the petrograd soviet

Question 29

When did the Constituency Assembly take place?

Answer 29

November 1918

Question 30

What was the result of the Constituency Assembly?

Answer 30

Socialist Revolutionaries: 370 deputies | Bolsheviks: 175 deputies

Question 31

When did the Bolshevik Party rename itself?

Answer 31

In 1918, to the Communist Party

Question 32

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

Answer 32

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

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What range of political groups did the White opposition include?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

When did the Bolsheviks defeat the Whites?

Answer 35

In 1920, secured communist rule over the country

Question 36

Who were the Whites?

Answer 36

Those opposed to the Bolsheviks during the civil war

Question 37

How long did the Russian civil war last?

Answer 37

From 1918-21

Question 38

Why did the Bolsheviks win the civil war?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Who ruled in Russia from 1894-1917?

Answer 39

Tsar Nicholas II

Question 40

When did Alexander Kerensky rule?

Answer 40

1917

Question 41

How long did Vladmir Lenin rule?

Answer 41

From 1917-1924

Question 42

Who ruled from 1929-1953?

Answer 42

Joseph Stalin

Question 43

Who ruled from 1953-1964?

Answer 43

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 44

How long did Leonid Brezhnev rule?

Answer 44

1964-1982

Question 45

How long did Yuri Andropov rule?

Answer 45

1982-1984

Question 46

How long did Konstantin Cherneko rule?

Answer 46

1984-1985

Question 47

Who ruled from 1985-1991?

Answer 47

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 48

Who ruled from 1991-1999?

Answer 48

Boris Yeltsin

Question 49

Who were the Socialist Revolutionaries?

Answer 49

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

Question 50

Which groups opposed the Bolshevik Party?

Answer 50

SRs, Mensheviks Nationalist groups within the Russian Empire Tsarists supporters