- What was the name of the Tsar?
- What was the name of the Tsar’s secret police?
- Name one Russian defeat in the First World War.
- Tannenberg or Masurian Lakes
- Name the two groups into which the Social and Democratic Labour Party was divided.
- Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
- Name the Prime Minister who had tried to reform Russia in the 1900s.
- What was the capital city of Tsarist Russia?
- How many million men left the fields to join the army?
- What happened on International Women’s Day?
- 8 March 1917: demonstrations/ bread riots.
- Who was the leader of the ‘Provisional Government’?
- What date did the Tsar abdicate?
- What did Petrograd Soviet Order Number 1 say?
- Order Number 1 forbade soldiers and workers to obey the provisional Government unless the Soviet agreed.
- Which general revolted in August 1917, revolts, but was defeated by the Bolsheviks?
- Kornilov tried a right-wing/ pro-Tsar army coup in August 1917.
- Give the dates of the Bolshevik Revolution.
- 6–8 November: The October Revolution – the Bolshevik coup d’état
- What was the name of he building which was the provisional Government’s headquarters?
- What did Lenin call his plans for Russia?
- What was the Bolsheviks’ slogan?
- ‘Peace, Bread, Land’ / ‘All Power to the Soviets’
- What was the Bolshevik newspaper?
- Who was leader of the Red Guards in 1917?
- How many seats did the Bolsheviks win in the elections of November 1917?
- What did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk decide?
- gave big areas of Russia’s best agricultural and industrial land to Germany – Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- Which law gave workers an 8-hour day, unemployment pay and pensions?
- What was the name of the Bolshevik secret police?
- What was ‘the dictatorship of the proletariat’?
- a dictatorship was needed until Russia was changed into a Communist country.
- Name the general of one of the ‘White’ armies.
- General Yudenich and Deniken attacked from W, Admiral Kolchak from E.
- What did the Comintern declare?
- Under Zinoviev, it declared that it would cause communist revolutions all over the world.
- When was the last White army in Russia defeated?
- Where was there a mutiny against the Bolsheviks in 1921?
- Describe TWO main ideas of the new Economic Policy.
- New Small Businesses/ Experts/ Lenin let the peasants sell their surplus, and pay a tax instead.
- Name three Rightists in the Politburo.
- Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky
- Name two Leftists.
- What was ‘Socialism in one country’?
- USSR should first become strong, then try to bring world revolution.
- What was the name of Stalin’s secret police?
- OGPU, became the NKVD in 1934.
- Whose murder started the purges in 1934?
- What was the name of Stalin’s system of workcamps?
- What were the ‘Apparatchiks’?
- party members loyal to Stalin
- When did Stalin first announce (voluntary) collectivisation?
- How many million kulaks were ‘eliminated’?
- What was a kolkhoz?
- How many million peasants left the countryside to work in the towns, 1928–37?
- What was a ‘Stakhanovite’?
- A hard worker who tried to emulate the record-breaking shift of Alexey Stakhanov
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