Russian Revolution

Question 1

Date
Bloody Sunday in January ; attempted revolution in October

Answer 1

1905

Question 2

Date
Russia joins WW1 which is a disaster

Answer 2

1914

Question 3

Date
Lenin and bolsheviks

Answer 3

Oct 1917

Question 4

Date
Tsar Nicholas abdicates, leaving provisional government in charge

Answer 4

March 1917

Question 5

Date
Lenin dies

Answer 5

1924

Question 6

Date
Stalin begins the 5 year plans and the collectivisation of farms

Answer 6

1928

Question 7

Date
The USSR is invaded by Germany but is able to defeat them

Answer 7

1941

Question 8

Tsar Nicholas II

Answer 8

Last Tsar of Russia. Unpopular because of his incompetence

Question 9

Rasputin

Answer 9

Monk who advised tsar and discredited him

Question 10

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 10

Leader of bolsheviks who led the October revolution

Question 11

Karl marx

Answer 11

Founder of the ideas of communism

Question 12

Leon Trotsky

Answer 12

Communist who was defeated by Stalin so did not replace lenin

Question 13

Joseph Stalin

Answer 13

Communist dictator who replaced Lenin and ruled until 1953

Question 14

Alexandra

Answer 14

The tsarina: the tsar’s unpopular German wife

Question 15

Duma

Answer 15

The Russian parliament founded in 1905

Question 16

Communist

Answer 16

Someone who believed that society should be equal and all property should be owned by the state

Question 17

Gulag

Answer 17

A labour camp for opponents of communists

Question 18

USSR

Answer 18

union of soviet socialist republics: the communist name of Russia

Question 19

Cult of personality

Answer 19

Creating a propaganda image around a leader such as Stalin

Question 20

Pogrom

Answer 20

Violent attack against Jews, often ordered by the government

Question 21

Bloody Sunday

Answer 21

Peaceful protest in 1905 which was brutally crushed by the Tsar

Question 22

Cheka

Answer 22

Secret police: the tsars and then the one that Lenin introduced

Question 23

Five year plan

Answer 23

The communists introduce this to boost the USSRs industry

Question 24

Collectivisation

Answer 24

Taking over farm land, animals and tools and having the government own the land

Question 25

Former people

Answer 25

Rich people under the tsar who lost their wealth and status

Question 26

What was Russia like before the revolution

Answer 26

• mostly peasants
• aristocracy owned 2/3 of land
  -Russias size and poor infrastructure restricts industrial growth
  -imperial/tsarist
  -highly censored press and no political party

Question 27

Why were Russians angry before 1917

Answer 27

• no technology on farms
  -Had to make a 49 year loan to buy land led to huge debts
  -unreliable food supply
  -poor soil
  -hardly any land for peasants because the ruling class owned most of it

Question 28

What did Lenin promise

Answer 28

Peace land and bread for everyone ( everyone had an equal share of everything )

Question 29

Why was the economic policy made

Answer 29

Because government was losing support

Question 30

What was the economic policy

Answer 30

-allowance of kulaks(wealthy peasants)selling surplus food for profit
-factories with less than 20 employees could return to private ownership

Question 31

How did Stalin control USSR

Answer 31

made people afraid to oppose him

Question 32

What changes did Stalin make

Answer 32

-improved living conditions
-controlled propaganda, education,economics
-5 year plan - set targets for industry (turned Russia agriculture->industrial) achievements were overwhelming
-did this by collectivisation

Question 33

What did Stalin’s rule result in

Answer 33

Unemployment being non existent and Russians lived got better