Russian Revolution: Part 3

Question 1

The Bolshevik Revolution (November, 1917)

Answer 1

• Lenin with Trotsky, running Russia
• • Lenin the speaker, up front guy, building a power base
• • Trotsky the organizer, the behind the scenes guy - father of the Red Army
• • Tried to set up true Communism but failed
• – Eventually allowed some free enterprise
• • Moved capital to Moscow
• – Formed a union of 15 republics
• – Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or CCCP)
• – Lenin dies in 1924
• Bolsheviks staged a coup d’etat in St. Petersburg
• relatively bloodless
• overthrew provisional government

Question 2

Stalin vs. Trotsky

Answer 2

• Trotsky was a strict Marxist
• • Stalin accepted socialism in one country at a time
• – Stalin means steel
• – Held the job of secretary, not a glamorous job but had a lot of contacts & people owed him favors
• – by 1928 Stalin had beaten Trotsky and exiled him built a state on fear, a police state, dictatorship
• — did this by elimination rivals
  i. purges – purification of disloyal members
  ii. 1936-38 – 8 million arrested
  iii. sent many to gulags in Siberia (prison camps) many died here

Question 3

five year plans

Answer 3

• total economic control - an orderly planning system
• • basis on agriculture
• • everything set on goals
• • each section of country (ag, industry) had certain goals to be reached
• • first (1928) was reasonably successful
• • rest of the plan interrupted by the war

Question 4

in 1922, still under Vladimir Lenin’s rule, Russia became _________

Answer 4

• the United Soviet Socialist Republic

Question 5

after the Bolsheviks took power in Russia in 1918, an opposing faction comprised of moderate socialists, landowners, and royalists known as the _________ emerged

Answer 5

• Mensheviks

Question 6

___________ ruled Russia from 1921 to 1924

Answer 6

• Vladimir Lenin

Question 7

during the civil unrest following the Russian Revolution, people who exposed expressed dissent to the Bolshevik regime were _____________

Answer 7

• killed

Question 8

despite the fact that his leadership was meant to transition Russia from a capitalist society to a socialist society, Lenin became a ________

Answer 8

• dictator

Question 9

after he took power in 1918, one of Vladimir Lenin’s first acts was to __________

Answer 9

• great Russia out of World War I

Question 10

in 1921, the _______, also known as the White Russians, lost the civil war in Russia

Answer 10

• Mensheviks

Question 11

during the Russian revolution, the ______ led a coup d’etat in St. Petersburg

Answer 11

• Bolsheviks

Question 12

in March 1918, the Bolshevik party in Russia officially renamed itself the __________ party

Answer 12

• communist

Question 13

the radical Russian revolutionary group led by Vladimir Lenin were known as the _____________

Answer 13

• Bolsheviks