Russia and The Soviet Union

Question 1

All Russian Congress of Soviets

Answer 1

A meeting of representatives from the newly created soviets

Question 2

Armistice

Answer 2

A formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting

Question 3

Autocracy

Answer 3

Rule by one person who has complete power

Question 4

Bolshevik revolution

Answer 4

Took place in OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1917

Question 5

Cadets

Answer 5

CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY which was in favour of a democratic style of government.

Question 6

Capitalism

Answer 6

Economic system, based on private ownership of production, distribution, exchange.

Question 7

Capitalist countries

Answer 7

UK, USA

Question 8

Central committee

Answer 8

Highest organisation of communist party elected by party members.

Question 9

Centralisation

Answer 9

Control is concentrated in hands of government

Question 10

Cheka

Answer 10

Secret police under BOLSHEVIKS

Question 11

Collective farm

Answer 11

Farm managed under the state

Question 12

Collectivisation

Answer 12

Introduced by STALIN where farms and lands were put together, run by a committee and produce was shared

Question 13

Commune

Answer 13

A village organisation controlled by families.

Question 14

Constituent assembly

Answer 14

Assembly/ parliament brought together for drafting a new constitution.

Question 15

Commissar

Answer 15

Government minister

Question 16

Council of people’s commissars

Answer 16

Central government or cabinet of ministers set up by Lenin to rule after OCTOBER revolution

Question 17

Five year plan

Answer 17

Set of targets for industry laid down by central planning org.

Question 18

July days

Answer 18

Events in 1917 that took place in Petrograd where soldiers and industrial works revolted against Russian provisional government.

Question 19

Kulak

Answer 19

Rich farmers

Question 20

Left-wing

Answer 20

Those who support extreme radical views of communism

Question 21

Mensheviks

Answer 21

Believed the party should be a mass organisation which workers could join.

Question 22

Military revolutionary committee (MRC)

Answer 22

Set up by social revolutionaries and social democrats to defend Russia from Germany etc,

Question 23

Nepmen

Answer 23

Traders who became rich because of new economic policy (nep)

Question 24

New economic policy

Answer 24

Introduced 1921 Lenin, allowed private businesses and farms to profit

Question 25

NKVD

Answer 25

Stalin’s secret police

Question 26

OGPU

Answer 26

Bolshevik secret police

Question 27

Old Bolshevik

Answer 27

Bolsheviks under Lenin

Question 28

Permanent revolution

Answer 28

In favour by Trotsky; the world would support communism

Question 29

Pravda

Answer 29

Official communist party newspaper

Question 30

Proletariat

Answer 30

Working class

Question 31

Provisional government

Answer 31

Led by Alexander kerensky, temporary givernamnt after abdication of Nicholas II

Question 32

Red army

Answer 32

Soviet army

Question 33

Red guard

Answer 33

Bolsheviks own armed forces

Question 34

Red great terror

Answer 34

Mass killings by Cheka

Question 35

Right wing

Answer 35

Less extreme side who accepted capitalism ideas.

Question 36

Romanov dynasty

Answer 36

Was the dynasty of all the Tsars

Question 37

Russification

Answer 37

The process of forcing non Russians to learn Russian and follow Russian customs

Question 38

Socialism

Answer 38

Belief that all means of production should be shared equally by everyone

Question 39

Socialist realism

Answer 39

The art formed by Stalin to show the achievements of Stalin but should be understood by everyone and be relatable

Question 40

Soviet

Answer 40

Elected council of workers

Question 41

War communism

Answer 41

State took and controlled production and gave to troops

Question 42

The whites

Answer 42

Name given to those who opposed and fought against Bolsheviks surging civil war 1918-21

Question 43

Zhenotdel

Answer 43

Department of Russian communist party devoted to women affairs in the 1920s