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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
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____ million peasants sent to war

A

15

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4
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In WW1, Russia spent _______ million roubles

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17,000

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5
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In WW1, Russia spent ___ times more

A

8

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6
Q

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

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2200

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7
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After WW1, _____ wagons of grain a month arrived in Moscow

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700

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8
Q

Tsar leaves Petrograd to visit army HQ

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22 Feb 1917

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9
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250,000 people demonstrated

A

23-25 Feb 1917

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10
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Soldiers ordered to open fire on demonstrators, 40 killed

A

26 Feb 1917

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11
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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
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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
Q

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk date

A

Mar 1918

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26
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: 4 points

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  • 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
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27
Q

All non-Bolshevik propaganda banned

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Dec 1917

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28
Q

Constituent Assembly shut down

A

Jan 1918

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29
Q

SRs and Mensheviks arrested

A

June 1918

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30
Q

Start of Red Terror

A

Sep 1918

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31
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All other political parties banned

A

1921

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32
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End of Red Terrir

A

Feb 1919

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33
Q

________ - ________ killed in Red Terror

A

50,000 - 140,000

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34
Q

Kronstadt Mutiny

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Mar 1921

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35
Q

War Communism introduced

A

1918

36
Q

NEP _____-_____

A

1921-1924

37
Q

Women declared equal with men

A

1917

38
Q

Zhenotdel, new women’s organisation, established

A

1919

39
Q

Abortion legalised

A

1920

40
Q

Kollontai made first female ambassador in the world, in Norway.

A

1923

41
Q

Women can own property in a relationship

A

1926

42
Q

Church land seized

A

1917

43
Q

Lenin increased persecution of Orthodox Church

A

1922

44
Q

Death of Lenin

A

Jan 1924

45
Q

Trotsky loses his job as Commissar for War

A

1925

46
Q

United Opposition formed

A

1926

47
Q

United Opposition defeated

A

1927

48
Q

Zinoviev, Kamenev and Trotsky expelled from Communist Party

A

1927

49
Q

Bukharin expelled from Politburo

A

1929

50
Q

Trotsky expelled from the USSR

A

1929

51
Q

Ex-Mensheviks shots

A

1931

52
Q

Murder of Kirov

A

1934

53
Q

First show-trials: Zinoviev and Kamenev shot

A

1936

54
Q

Order 00447

A

1937

55
Q

Bukharin show-trial

A

1938

56
Q

Yezhov arrested

A

Nov 1938

57
Q

In 1939, ___ million still in labour camps

A

7

58
Q

By 1941, ____ Churches remained open

A

500

59
Q

In 1914, there were _______ Churches

A

54,000

60
Q

New Soviet Constitution

A

1936

61
Q

Urals-Siberian Method

A

1927-28

62
Q

Stalin launched a campaign to liquidate the kulaks

A

Dec 1929

63
Q

30,000 kulaks killed

A

1930-31

64
Q

Stalin’s “dizzy with success” speech

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1930

65
Q

Great Famine caused by collectivisation

A

1932-33

66
Q

June 1933, _____ died in Ukraine every day from hunger

A

28,000

67
Q

First 5 Year Plan

A

1928-32

68
Q

Second 5 Year Plan

A

1933-37

69
Q

Third 5 Year Plan

A

1938-41

70
Q

Stakhanov mined 14 times his quota

A

31 Aug 1935

71
Q

In 1928, ___ million people were unemployed

A

1.3

72
Q

In 1928, ___ million industrial workers

A

4.6

73
Q

1940s, ___ million industrial workers

A

12.6

74
Q

Internal passports

A

1932

75
Q

By 1934, ___ million internal passports issued

A

27

76
Q

In the first 6 months of 1933, ______ peasants arrested for escaping collective farms

A

400,000

77
Q

In 1928, coal production ____ million tonnes

A

35.4

78
Q

In 1936, coal production ____ million tonnes

A

64.3

79
Q

Abortion banned

A

1936

80
Q

Mothers with 6 or more kids received _____ roubles a year for 5 years

A

2000

81
Q

Divorces cost money

A

1936

82
Q

First divorce costs ___ roubles

A

50

83
Q

Second divorce costs ___ roubles

A

150

84
Q

1937, Women made up ___% of industrial workers

A

40

85
Q

Western nationalities purged

A

1935-36

86
Q

_______ Soviet-Koreans exiled to Kazakhstan

A

170,000

87
Q

Hundreds of thousands of Soviet-Germans exiled to Siberia

A

1941

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