World War I Russia

Question 1

What were war credits?

Answer 1

The raising of taxes and loans to finance war

Question 2

What was St Petersburg renamed in 1914?

Answer 2

Petrograd

Question 3

How many died at the Battle of Tannenburg in East Prussia?

Answer 3

300,000 dead or wounded

Question 4

What were military zones and when were they set up?

Answer 4

In July 1914, the tsarist government had established military rules in certain areas to suspend civilian authority

Question 5

What did the Union of Zemstva provide?

Answer 5

Medical facilities

Question 6

What did factory owners and businessmen establish?

Answer 6

A Congress of Representatives of Industry and Business

Question 7

What did the zemstva and municipal Dumas join together to form?

Answer 7

The All-Russian Union of Zemstva and Cities or Zemgor

Question 8

When and why did Nicholas II decide to join the actual fighting?

Answer 8

September 1915 caused defeats in Galicia

Question 9

When was Rasputin murdered?

Answer 9

17th of December 1916

Question 10

How many men were mobilised for WWI between 1914-1917?

Answer 10

15,000,000

Question 11

How many rifles did the army have for each soldier in 1914?

Answer 11

Two rifles for every three soldiers

Question 12

How many desertions were there in 1916?

Answer 12

1.5 million

Question 13

How much did the spending on war increase from 1914 to 1918?

Answer 13

1,500 million roubles in 1914 to 14,500 million in 1918

Question 14

How much did railway production decrease by between 1913 to 1916

Answer 14

Half

Question 15

How much did rifle production increase by?

Answer 15

Double

Question 16

How much did heavy artillery production increase by?

Answer 16

Quadrupled

Question 17

How much did cost of living increase by?

Answer 17

300%

Question 18

How many people went on strike in Moscow, January 1917?

Answer 18

30,000

Question 19

How many people went on strike in Petrograd, January 1917?

Answer 19

145,000

Question 20

How many workers attended a demonstration for Bloody Sunday in Petrograd 1917?

Answer 20

150,000

Question 21

How many workers went on strike on in Petrograd, 14th of Feb. 1917?

Answer 21

Roughly 100,000 from 58 different factories

Question 22

How many people went on strike in Petrograd, 25th February?

Answer 22

250,000(over half the capital’s workforce)

Question 22

How many people were on the streets on International Women’s Day 1917?

Answer 22

90,000 were on strike and around 240,000 on a march with women.

Question 22

How many went on strike in Petrograd, 24th of February 1917?

Answer 22

200,000

Question 23

How many soldiers mutinied on the 27th of February?

Answer 23

66,000

Question 23

How many protestors in Petrograd were killed by soldiers on the 27th of February?

Answer 23

40

Question 24

How many rifles did the soldiers give civilians on February 27th?

Answer 24

40,000

Question 24

What did the Duma set up to take over the government on the 27th of February?

Answer 24

A 12-man provisional committee

Question 25

How many members did the Petrograd Soviet have by the 10th of March?

Answer 25

3,000

Question 26

What did the Petrograd Soviet agree on March 1st?

Answer 26

To recognise a Provisional Government and the Tsar resigning, in favour of his son.

Question 27

What happened on the 2nd of March?

Answer 27

The Tsar officially abdicates

Question 27

How many of the original Petrograd Soviet committee members were workers?

Answer 27

7 out of 42

Question 27

What did the provisional government promise?

Answer 27

-General amnesty for all political prisoners -The abolition of legal disabilities based on class, religion and nationality -The right to organise trade unions and to strike -A Constituent Assembly would be elected

Question 27

How many districts were affected by peasant disturbances in March 1917?

Answer 27

34

Question 28

How many districts were affected by peasant disturbances in July 1917?

Answer 28

325

Question 29

How many desertions were there between March and May 1917?

Answer 29

365,000

Question 30

How much had real prices inflated from 1914 by October 1917?

Answer 30

755%

Question 31

What did the April Theses demand?

Answer 31

-Power should be transferred to the Soviets -The war should be brought to an immediate end -All land should be taken over by the State and re-allocated to peasants by local soviets

Question 32

What was the outcome of the 'All-Russian Congress of Soviets' first vote for the Provisional Government on 3 June?

Answer 32

543 in support to 126 opposed.

Question 33

How many factories closed between February and June?

Answer 33

586

Question 34

How many people lost their jobs between February and June?

Answer 34

100,000

Question 35

How many armed soldiers joined the July Days protest?

Answer 35

20,000

Question 36

How much had Bolshevik membership increased from February to October?

Answer 36

23,000 to 200,000

Question 37

How many newspapers were the Bolsheviks producing in October?

Answer 37

41

Question 38

How many soldiers did the Bolshevik's have e in the Red Guards in October?

Answer 38

10,000

Question 39

What did Trotsky and Felix Dzerzhinsky set up on the 9th of October?

Answer 39

The Military Revolutionary Committee

Question 40

How many members were there in the Military Revolutionary Committee?

Answer 40

66

Question 41

How many soldiers did the Military Revolutionary Committee control?

Answer 41

200,000 Red Guards 60,000 Baltic sailors 150,000 soldiers of the Petrograd garrison

Question 42

How many did Trotsky claim were actively involved in the October Revolution?

Answer 42

25,000-30,000(5% of the workers and soldiers in the city)