Russia

Question 1

Who was the Tsar of Russia at the start of 1917?

Answer 1

Nicholas II

Question 2

During WW1 the Tsar took on the role of Commander in Chief, why was this a bad decision?

Answer 2

He would be personally blamed for the Russian loss in WW1

Question 3

Who assisted the Tsarina in ruling Russia whilst the Tsar was at the front?

Answer 3

Rasputin

Question 4

A lack of which food led to the February Revolution in 1917?

Answer 4

Bread

Question 5

A march for which international day of celebration led to riots in Petrograd?

Answer 5

International Women’s day

Question 6

The provisional government and which other body made up the Dual Authority?

Answer 6

Petrograd Soviet

Question 7

Who had control over the army after the February revolution?

Answer 7

Petrograd soviet

Question 8

What was the name of the ‘order’ linked to the Petrograd Soviets control of the army?

Answer 8

Soviet order No.1

Question 9

When did Lenin first return to Petrograd in 1917?

Answer 9

April

Question 10

Name one of Lenin’s key slogans?

Answer 10

Peace, Bread, Land

Question 11

In which month in 1917 did the first Bolshevik riot/attempt at seizing power take place?

Answer 11

July (July days)

Question 12

What was the name of the general who almost attempted to seize power in August 1917?

Answer 12

Kornilov

Question 13

Name 2 decrees that Lenin introduces between Oct ‘17 and Dec ‘17?

Answer 13

Decree on land

Decree on peace

Question 14

What % of voted did the bolsheviks win in the election of the constituent assembly?

Answer 14

24%

Question 15

What happened to the constituent assembly?

Answer 15

It was dissolved

Question 16

Which key Bolshevik net with Germany to negotiate Russia’s withdrawal from WW1?

Answer 16

Trotsky

Question 17

What was the name of the treaty that ended Russia’s involvement in WW1?

Answer 17

Brest Litovsk

Question 18

Who were ‘the Greens’ in the Civil war?

Answer 18

People who weren’t in support of the reds or the whites

Question 19

Give 2 reasons for the red victory in the civil war

Answer 19

Better communication
Geography
White incompetence

Question 20

In what city were the Tsar and his family brutally murdered?

Answer 20

Ekaterinburg

Question 21

What is the name of the economic policy introduced during the civil war?

Answer 21

War Communism

Question 22

Describe one of the key features of War Communism

Answer 22

Requisitioning of grain

Question 23

Which previously loyal group revolted against the Bolsheviks in March 1921?

Answer 23

Kronstadt sailors

Question 24

What was the role of the Comintern?

Answer 24

Promote the communist revolution

Question 25

What treaty did the USSR sign with Germany in 1926?

Answer 25

Treaty of Berlin

Question 26

Name 3 contenders for leadership after Lenin

Answer 26

Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin

Question 27

What was Socialism in one country and who promoted it?

Answer 27

Stalin promoted it, it was a people’s paradise

Question 28

What was the great turn?

Answer 28

Change from the NEP to a different economic policy

Question 29

What was the name of the new steel city created near Chelyabinsk?

Answer 29

Magnitogorsk

Question 30

Name of the two main types of collective farms

Answer 30

Kolkhoz

Sovkoz

Question 31

What was Collectivisation?

Answer 31

The political principle of centralised social and economic control, especially of all means of production.

Question 32

What was Sovnarkom?

Answer 32

The council of peoples commissars, formed by Vladimir Lenin in October 1917 as the government of the new revolutionary regime

Question 33

By 1941 what % of farms were collectivised?

Answer 33

100%

Question 34

How many tons of grain had the state collected by 1931?

Answer 34

22.8 million

Question 35

By 1939 how many peasants had migrated to towns for work?

Answer 35

19 million

Question 36

By which year did grain procurement levels reach pre-collectivisation levels?

Answer 36

1935