Political - Key Facts

Question 1

Demands of the April Thesis

Answer 1

• Power transferred to the Soviet
• War brought to an end
• Land should be taken and re-allocated to the peasants

Question 2

Number Bolsheviks members in April 1917

Answer 2

26,000

Question 3

Grain prices …

Answer 3

Doubled

Question 4

Number of factories that were forced to close

Under the Provisional Government

Answer 4

586

Question 5

Newspaper that denounced the role of the Bolsheviks

Answer 5

Izvestia

Question 6

Head of the Coup in August 1917

Answer 6

General Kornilov

Question 7

Percentage increase of Bolshevik support between June and December

Answer 7

164%

Question 8

Number of Bolshevik members in October 1917

Answer 8

200,000

Question 9

Bolsheviks that voted against the Bolshevik Coup

Answer 9

• Zinoviev
• Kamenev

Question 10

Committee that the Bolsheviks were able to set up under the Petrograd Soviet

Answer 10

Military Revolutionary Committee

Question 11

Number of Kronstadt sailors and soldiers that seized key positions in Petrograd

Answer 11

5,000

Question 12

Name of the ship that the blank shot was fired off at 9:40pm

Answer 12

Battleship Aura

Question 13

Number of people Trotsky claimed were involved with the October Revolution

Answer 13

25,000 - 30,000

Question 14

Number of people that were actually involved in the October Revolution

Answer 14

10,000 - 15,000

Question 15

Number of delegates that attended the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets

Answer 15

670

Question 16

The new decrees that Lenin announced in October 1917

Answer 16

• Decree on Peace
• Decree on Land
• Nationalisation of Banks

Question 17

Turnout for the Constituents Assembly

Answer 17

41.7 million

Question 18

Number of votes the Social Revolutionaries won in the Constituents Assembly Elections

Answer 18

21.8 million

Question 19

Number of votes the Bolsheviks won in the Constituents Assembly Elections

Answer 19

10 million

Question 20

Weighing of Workers’ Vote in the 1918 Contituents Assembly

Answer 20

5:1

Question 21

Number of Red Army troops that had to be deployed to deal with troubles in the Tambov region

Answer 21

100,000

Question 22

Fractional reduction in bread rations

Answer 22

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