Russia 1 - Communist Government 1917-41

Question 1

When was the October Revolution?

Answer 1

1917

Question 2

When was the Decree on Land passed?

Answer 2

1917

Question 3

When was the Decree on Peace passed?

Answer 3

1917

Question 4

When were the Decrees on Workers passed?

Answer 4

1917-18

Question 5

When were the Constituent Assembly elections?

Answer 5

1917

Question 6

When was the Cheka created?

Answer 6

1917

Question 7

When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

Answer 7

1918

Question 8

When was the Civil War?

Answer 8

1918-21

Question 9

When was the Tambov Peasants uprising?

Answer 9

1921

Question 10

When was the Kronstadt sailors rebellion?

Answer 10

1921

Question 11

When was the ban on factions?

Answer 11

1921

Question 12

When did Stalin become general secretary?

Answer 12

1921

Question 13

When did Lenin die?

Answer 13

1924

Question 14

When did Stalin become the undisputed leader?

Answer 14

1928

Question 15

When was the Ryutin affair?

Answer 15

1932

Question 16

When was the congress of victors?

Answer 16

1934

Question 17

When was Kirov murdered?

Answer 17

1934

Question 18

When was the Great Terror?

Answer 18

1934

Question 19

When was the Trial of 16?

Answer 19

1936

Question 20

When was the Trial of 17?

Answer 20

1937

Question 21

When was the purge of the Red Army?

Answer 21

1937

Question 22

When was the Trial of 21?

Answer 22

1938

Question 23

Where was the capital city?

Answer 23

It moved from St Petersburg (Petrograd) to Moscow

Question 24

When did the Bolsheviks change their name and what to?

Answer 24

They changed their name to the Communists in 1918

Question 25

What did Stalin's rivals call him?

Answer 25

The Grey Blur

Question 26

When was the USSR established?

Answer 26

1922

Question 27

When was Lenin's Chistkas?

Answer 27

1918 and 1920

Question 28

How much of the party was purged in Lenin's Chistka?

Answer 28

1/3

Question 29

Who outside of the party was purged in 1920 by Lenin?

Answer 29

Bim-Bom the clown for telling Anti-Bolshevik jokes

Question 30

What was the structure of the Sovnarkom in 1918?

Answer 30

13 commissars with Lenin as Chairman

Question 31

Where did the revolution occur?

Answer 31

Petrograd

Question 32

Who went on strike when the Bolsheviks seized control?

Answer 32

The State Bank and Treasury which denied them crucial funds

Question 33

Why was the Constituent Assembly disbanded?

Answer 33

Because the Bolsheviks only won a minority of votes

Question 34

How long did the Constituent Assembly last before it was disbanded?

Answer 34

November to January 1918

Question 35

Who led the Red Army?

Answer 35

Trotsky

Question 36

What changes in structural significance took place in 1918?

Answer 36

The Politburo became more important than the Sovnarkom and the Nomenklatura become more important than the Soviets

Question 37

How was dissention in the party quashed?

Answer 37

Ban on factions

Question 38

Who was involved in the power struggle?

Answer 38

Stalin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky and Bukharin

Question 39

Who was in the Triumvirate and what was their aim?

Answer 39

Zinoviev, Kamenev and Stalin wanted to keep Trotsky out of power

Question 40

When was the Duumvirate formed?

Answer 40

1925

Question 41

Who was in the Duumvirate and what was their aim?

Answer 41

Stalin and Bukharin formed an alliance to win a majority in the politburo

Question 42

What ideas did Stalin use to get Zinoviev, Kamenev and Trotsky expelled from the party?

Answer 42

Ideological orthodoxy, socialism in one country and the abandonment of the NEP

Question 43

When was the Lenin Enrolment program?

Answer 43

1924

Question 44

How many new members joined the Lenin enrolment program?

Answer 44

128,000

Question 45

How did Stalin create a system of patronage?

Answer 45

He used his position as General Secretary, Head of the Central Control Commission and Rabkrin

Question 46

How was Stalin overruled in 1932-33?

Answer 46

Moderates in the Politburo overruled him over the Ryutin Affair and the targets for the 2nd 5 year plan

Question 47

What triggered the Great Terror?

Answer 47

After the Congress of Victors and Kirov's murder, Stalin declared that the party should be purged of all internal threats

Question 48

Who was removed in the show trials?

Answer 48

Leading Bolsheviks

Question 49

Who was removed in the secret trials?

Answer 49

Red Army leaders who were loyal to Trotsky

Question 50

What was kept secret during the power struggle?

Answer 50

Lenin's testament