The USSR Unit Flashcards
Who initially supported the provisional government but switched to opposition upon Lenin’s return?
Stalin
Who supported Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky to promote the continuation of the NEP?
Stalin
Whose name means ‘Man of Steel’?
Stalin
Who was the Commissar of Nationalities?
Stalin
Who was born in Georgia to peasant parents?
Stalin
Who was General Secretary of the Bolshevik Party?
Stalin
Who masterminded the October Coup?
Trotsky
Who was the Commissar of Foreign Affairs?
Trotsky
Who controlled the Red Army?
Trotsky
Who missed Lenin’s funeral?
Trotsky
Who was the chairman of the Petrograd Soviet?
Trotsky
Who crushed the Kronstadt Rebellion?
Trotsky
Who organised a nation-wide youth conference in 1907?
Bukharin
Who sometimes opposed Lenin on an ideological level?
Bukharin
Who played a minor role in the 1905 revolution?
Buhkarin and Kamanev
Who was born in Moscow to teacher parents?
Bukharin
Who became a strong supporter of Lenin’s NEP?
Bukharin
Who believed in the idea of a Soviet-led revolutionary war?
Bukharin
Who was the head of the moscow soviet during the civil war?
Kamenev
Who joined the ‘anti-Trotsky’ triumvirate?
Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev
Who married Trotsky’s sister?
Kamenev
Who chaired the Politburo during Lenin’s illness?
Kamenev
Who opposed Lenin’s decision to seize power in October 1917?
Kamenev and Zinoviev
Who was very powerful in the Leningrad?
Zinoviev
Who was president of the Comintern?
Zinoviev
Who returned to Russia with Lenin?
Zinoviev
What did Russia lose in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? (and when was it signed?)
March 1918; lost 30% of population, 32% of arable land, 54% of industrial enterprises, 6 million marks of war indemnities.
