Russia Flashcards

1
Q

In 1917, ___% of population were peasants

A

80

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2
Q

In WW1, price of food and fuel increased by ____%

A

400

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3
Q

____ million peasants sent to war

A

15

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4
Q

In WW1, Russia spent _______ million roubles

A

17,000

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5
Q

In WW1, Russia spent ___ times more

A

8

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6
Q

Before WW1, _____ wagons of grain a month arrived in Moscow

A

2200

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7
Q

After WW1, _____ wagons of grain a month arrived in Moscow

A

700

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8
Q

Tsar leaves Petrograd to visit army HQ

A

22 Feb 1917

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9
Q

250,000 people demonstrated

A

23-25 Feb 1917

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10
Q

Soldiers ordered to open fire on demonstrators, 40 killed

A

26 Feb 1917

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11
Q

Some regiments disobey orders to open fire

A

27 Feb 1917

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12
Q

Tsar abdicated

A

2 Mar 1917

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13
Q

Order Number 1

A

1 Mar 1917

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14
Q

Kornilov Revolt

A

Aug 1917

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15
Q

By April, Bolsheviks had ______ members

A

75,000

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16
Q

July Days: _ July and _ July

A

3 and 7

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17
Q

When hiding in Finland, Lenin wrote “_______________”

A

State and Revolution

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18
Q

Lenin secretly returned to Petrograd

A

10 Oct 1917

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19
Q

By Oct 1917, Bolsheviks had ________ members

A

340,000

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20
Q

Kerensky failed crack-down of Bolsheviks

A

24 Oct 1917

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21
Q

Bolsheviks captured the Winter Palace

A

25 Oct 1917

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22
Q

Decree of Peace

A

8 Nov 1917

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23
Q

Decree of Land

A

8 Nov 1917

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24
Q

Tsar and family murdered by Bolsheviks

A

17 July 1918

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25
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk date
Mar 1918
26
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: 4 points
- Russia lost all western lands - Russia lost 62 million people - Russia lost 27% of all farmland and 74% of iron and coal - Russia pay Germany 300 million roubles
27
All non-Bolshevik propaganda banned
Dec 1917
28
Constituent Assembly shut down
Jan 1918
29
SRs and Mensheviks arrested
June 1918
30
Start of Red Terror
Sep 1918
31
All other political parties banned
1921
32
End of Red Terrir
Feb 1919
33
________ - ________ killed in Red Terror
50,000 - 140,000
34
Kronstadt Mutiny
Mar 1921
35
War Communism introduced
1918
36
NEP _____-_____
1921-1924
37
Women declared equal with men
1917
38
Zhenotdel, new women's organisation, established
1919
39
Abortion legalised
1920
40
Kollontai made first female ambassador in the world, in Norway.
1923
41
Women can own property in a relationship
1926
42
Church land seized
1917
43
Lenin increased persecution of Orthodox Church
1922
44
Death of Lenin
Jan 1924
45
Trotsky loses his job as Commissar for War
1925
46
United Opposition formed
1926
47
United Opposition defeated
1927
48
Zinoviev, Kamenev and Trotsky expelled from Communist Party
1927
49
Bukharin expelled from Politburo
1929
50
Trotsky expelled from the USSR
1929
51
Ex-Mensheviks shots
1931
52
Murder of Kirov
1934
53
First show-trials: Zinoviev and Kamenev shot
1936
54
Order 00447
1937
55
Bukharin show-trial
1938
56
Yezhov arrested
Nov 1938
57
In 1939, ___ million still in labour camps
7
58
By 1941, ____ Churches remained open
500
59
In 1914, there were _______ Churches
54,000
60
New Soviet Constitution
1936
61
Urals-Siberian Method
1927-28
62
Stalin launched a campaign to liquidate the kulaks
Dec 1929
63
30,000 kulaks killed
1930-31
64
Stalin's "dizzy with success" speech
1930
65
Great Famine caused by collectivisation
1932-33
66
June 1933, _____ died in Ukraine every day from hunger
28,000
67
First 5 Year Plan
1928-32
68
Second 5 Year Plan
1933-37
69
Third 5 Year Plan
1938-41
70
Stakhanov mined 14 times his quota
31 Aug 1935
71
In 1928, ___ million people were unemployed
1.3
72
In 1928, ___ million industrial workers
4.6
73
1940s, ___ million industrial workers
12.6
74
Internal passports
1932
75
By 1934, ___ million internal passports issued
27
76
In the first 6 months of 1933, ______ peasants arrested for escaping collective farms
400,000
77
In 1928, coal production ____ million tonnes
35.4
78
In 1936, coal production ____ million tonnes
64.3
79
Abortion banned
1936
80
Mothers with 6 or more kids received _____ roubles a year for 5 years
2000
81
Divorces cost money
1936
82
First divorce costs ___ roubles
50
83
Second divorce costs ___ roubles
150
84
1937, Women made up ___% of industrial workers
40
85
Western nationalities purged
1935-36
86
_______ Soviet-Koreans exiled to Kazakhstan
170,000
87
Hundreds of thousands of Soviet-Germans exiled to Siberia
1941