Unit 2 Quiz (Lenin)

Question 1

1895 (Dec)

Answer 1

Exiled to Siberia for 3 years

Question 2

1901

Answer 2

Changed his name to Lenin

Question 3

1905 (Jan 9)

Answer 3

Hundreds of unarmed workers→ Winter Palace to ask Nicholas II for better working conditions→ Nicholas II let them be shot

Question 4

October Manifesto

Answer 4

(1905) Created Duma; Nicholas II’s attempt to make up for killing workers

Question 5

Duma

Answer 5

Elected legislative assembly made up of the people; could advise, but got no real votes

Question 6

1914 (July)

Answer 6

Russia entered WWI; Nicholas II refused to spend money to get proper weapons→ soldiers essentially sent off to die→ anger

Question 7

1906

Answer 7

Nicholas II tried (and failed) to get rid of Duma

Question 8

1917 (Feb)

Answer 8

Provisional Government appointed; vote set up for November; Lenin argues: appointed→ not “of the people”, and even with an election peasants won’t be elected and nothing will change

Question 9

1917 (Feb/Mar)

Answer 9

Strikes and army mutinies because Prov. Gov’t supported WWI and not fixing problems

Question 10

1917 (Feb-April)

Answer 10

Lenin not allowed in Russia, but begins working on campaign and spreading his message

Question 11

1917 (April)

Answer 11

April Theses; returns to Russia

Question 12

1917 (June)

Answer 12

June Offensive-Las major Russian attempt-Advance by Russians against Germans; Russians crushed

Question 13

1917 (July)

Answer 13

Lenin stormed Petrograd (capital before capital was moved to Moscow); went terribly wrong because he underestimated Prov. Gov’t army size/strength; retreat

Question 14

1917 (August)

Answer 14

Kornilov Affair-Kornilov storms Petrograd to try to overtake it; Bolsheviks still there from July→ keep Kornilov from taking over→ pretend they’re Russia’s heroes

Question 15

1917 (October 24-25)

Answer 15

October Revolution-Lenin storms Winter Palace→ Prov. Gov’t officials arrested→ Prov. Gov’t officials exiled→ Lenin took over, saying he did it for the soviets and peasants→ got (almost) full support→ (eventually) Prov. Gov’t Officials executed

Question 16

1917 (November)

Answer 16

election; Socialist Revolutionaries=40% of the vote, Bolsheviks=24%

Question 17

1917 (December)

Answer 17

Lenin cancelled results (Lenin still had control in Petrograd)

Question 18

Kornilov

Answer 18

Lenin’s rival; Russian general who was loyal to Tsar→ many men died under him→ people hate him

Question 19

1918 (Feb)

Answer 19

Felix Dzerzhinksy appointed head of Cheka

Question 20

Cheka

Answer 20

Brutal Bolshevik police force

Question 21

1918 (August 30)

Answer 21

Fanya Kaplan and Kenigiesser (Social revolutionaries) tried to assassinate Lenin; Fanya shot him but didn’t kill him (still causes lifelong problems) → unleashed Cheka→ Red Terror

Question 22

Komsomol

Answer 22

youth group for ages 14-28

Question 23

1918-1921

Answer 23

War Communism-Lenin’s economic policy; Lenin wasn’t sure what to do, so he looked around for inspiration and found War Socialism (German Keiser Ludendorff’s economic policy)
Red Terror-Period of mass killings and systematic torture by Bolsheviks
Civil War of Russia-Red Army vs. White Army
Bread War

Question 24

1919

Answer 24

Lenin turned against proletariat

Question 25

1921

Answer 25

The Principle of Personal Incentive and Responsibility

Question 26

1921 (Feb 28)

Answer 26

Kronstadt Uprising

Question 27

1921

Answer 27

New Economic Policy

Question 28

1922

Answer 28

The Pioneers-(Youth group ages 9-14) | The Little Octoberists-(Youth group anyone under the age of 9)

Question 29

1924

Answer 29

Lenin dies

Question 30

Aurora

Answer 30

Kronstadt ship used in blocking the river in 1905 revolution

Question 31

“Agit trains”

Answer 31

big colored propaganda posters covered the trains and projectors inside the trains

Question 32

KISS

Answer 32

Keep It Simple Stupid (describes Lenin's propaganda; people=illiterate)

Question 33

Stalin Propaganda

Answer 33

1. Media control (remove non-persons; falsify documents) 2. Cult of personality (create following that admired him; posters, sayings, names, etc.) 3. Claimed legacy (rewrote history, named cities after himself, statues, etc.)

Question 34

Zhdanovschina

Answer 34

Campaign to stamp out all western influence in all areas of life

Question 35

Social Revolutionaries

Answer 35

to transfer land to peasants→ Lenin’s biggest rival (actually wanted to do what Lenin *said* he wanted to do)

Question 36

Mensheviks

Answer 36

Supported Prov. Gov’t

Question 37

Soviets

Answer 37

councils made of elected workers, soldiers, and sailors; popular in proletariats

Question 38

Red Army

Answer 38

Bolsheviks (led by Trotsky)

Question 39

White Army

Answer 39

Initially led by Kornilov (militarily trained); not as organized because soldiers=people who didn’t like Lenin; Given help from allies only until WWI ended

Question 40

Bread War

Answer 40

Peasants vs. Gov’t-(sub-war of the Civil War) some people still farmed, but some would amass large amounts of agriculture despite crappy system (few did; called Guluks); Guluks tried to negotiate with Lenin because Lenin needed their stuff→ Lenin shot them or starved them to death (not sold grain to replant)

Question 41

(1 September 1918)

Answer 41

500 Social Revolutionaries taken into Petrograd and killed

Question 42

5 September 1918

Answer 42

Red Terror officially authorized

Question 43

Russian Famine of 1921

Answer 43

Caused by drought

Question 44

1921

Answer 44

Prodnalog

Question 45

Prodnalog

Answer 45

food tax; means the people own the food→ people have some control

Question 46

1924

Answer 46

“Tax-in-kind”-tax on money

Question 47

1918 (August)

Answer 47

Attacked Kulaks (farmers), priests, etc.