The USSR Unit Flashcards

1
Q

Who initially supported the provisional government but switched to opposition upon Lenin’s return?

A

Stalin

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2
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Who supported Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky to promote the continuation of the NEP?

A

Stalin

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3
Q

Whose name means ‘Man of Steel’?

A

Stalin

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4
Q

Who was the Commissar of Nationalities?

A

Stalin

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5
Q

Who was born in Georgia to peasant parents?

A

Stalin

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6
Q

Who was General Secretary of the Bolshevik Party?

A

Stalin

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7
Q

Who masterminded the October Coup?

A

Trotsky

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8
Q

Who was the Commissar of Foreign Affairs?

A

Trotsky

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9
Q

Who controlled the Red Army?

A

Trotsky

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9
Q

Who missed Lenin’s funeral?

A

Trotsky

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9
Q

Who was the chairman of the Petrograd Soviet?

A

Trotsky

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10
Q

Who crushed the Kronstadt Rebellion?

A

Trotsky

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10
Q

Who organised a nation-wide youth conference in 1907?

A

Bukharin

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10
Q

Who sometimes opposed Lenin on an ideological level?

A

Bukharin

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11
Q

Who played a minor role in the 1905 revolution?

A

Buhkarin and Kamanev

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12
Q

Who was born in Moscow to teacher parents?

13
Q

Who became a strong supporter of Lenin’s NEP?

14
Q

Who believed in the idea of a Soviet-led revolutionary war?

15
Q

Who was the head of the moscow soviet during the civil war?

16
Q

Who joined the ‘anti-Trotsky’ triumvirate?

A

Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev

17
Q

Who married Trotsky’s sister?

18
Q

Who chaired the Politburo during Lenin’s illness?

19
Q

Who opposed Lenin’s decision to seize power in October 1917?

A

Kamenev and Zinoviev

20
Q

Who was very powerful in the Leningrad?

21
Who was president of the Comintern?
Zinoviev
22
Who returned to Russia with Lenin?
Zinoviev
23
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.