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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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A peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between Russia and the Central Powers. This marked Russia's exit from World War I.

Question 2: Duma

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As a result of the Revolution of 1905, Tzar Nicholas II created this elected parliament to appease the people. In reality however, the group had virtually no power and the Tzar could dissolve it at any time.

Question 3: Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

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A non-aggression treaty between the German Third Reich and the Soviet Union, signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939. Short-lived, it lasted only as far as Operation Barbarossa.

Question 4: Resistance to collectivization

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Peasants and farmers (Kulaks especially) resisted the new agricultural organization in which government took a large share of grain and animals. They slaughtered their own livestock and burnt crops to prevent the Soviets from having them.

Question 5: "Socialism in one Country"

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Stalin's belief that socialism must first be successfully established in the Soviet Union before it could spread to other countries.

Question 6: Leon Trotsky

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A Jewish Bolshevik revolutionary, Marxist theorist and an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union, first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War.

Question 7: Romanov Dynasty

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The ruling family of Russia for 300 years. Was brought to an end with the abdication of Tzar Nicholas II.

Question 8: Russian Civil War

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It began immediately after the collapse of the Russian provisional government and the Bolshevik takeover (1917). Hostilities took place between Communist Red Army and the anti-Communist White Army. Communists won after 4 years and created the Soviet Union

Question 9: Provisional Government

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The government that was set up at the onset of the Russian Revolution. It was made up of the members of the old Duma with Alexsandr Kerensky as PM. It lasted less than a year.

Question 10: Communism

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An ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization, based upon common ownership of the means of production. It can be classified as a branch of the broader socialist movement.

Question 11: White Army

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Comprised of some of the Russian forces, both political and military, which opposed the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution and fought against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1921.

Question 12: General Secretary of Communist Party

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Stalin's first position in the Communist Party. Following Lenin's death he used this post to appoint those officials loyal to him and in this way built up his support base. Soon thereafter he was recognized as the official party leader.

Question 13: U.S.S.R.

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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Soviet Union. A constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922-1991 often incorrectly referred to as Russia. It was one of the world's two superpowers at that time, along with the USA.

Question 14: Tsar Nicholas II

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The last Emperor of Russia. He ruled from 1894 until his forced abdication in 1917, due to his inability to manage Russia in political turmoil and command its army in World War I.

Question 15: Comintern

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An international Communist organization founded in March 1919, in the midst of the "war communism" period (1918-1921), by Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Communist Party. It's aim was to spread communism worldwide.

Question 16: Five Year Plans

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A series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. Stalin introduced the first one in 1928.

Question 17: New Economic Policy

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Policy issued by the Commumist Party that allowed a limited middle class to exist by permitting small businesses in minor economic spheres(farming etc.) Lenin justified this decision with his "two steps forward, one step back" philosophy.

Question 18: Lenin

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A Russian revolutionary, communist politician, the first head of the Soviet Union, and the main leader of the October Revolution.

Question 19: War Communism

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Harsh economic policies adopted by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in which everything (food, munition, clothes) went to the army. One of the first signs of totalitarian communism.

Question 20: Collective Farm

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A government owned farm where peasants worked on a quota system. Animals and machinery were pooled together to increase productivity.

Question 21: Bloody Sunday

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In 1905, in front of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, protesters brought a petition to the tzar. They were gunned down by the Imperial Guard, sparking the Revolution of 1905.

Question 22: Stalin

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General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 until 1953. After Lenin's death he eventually became the de facto party leader and dictator of the Soviet Union. Ruled with an iron grip, modernizing the country with his ruthless five year plans.

Question 23: Rasputin

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A Russian mystic who held an influence over the Tsar and Tsarina in the later days of Russia's Romanov dynasty for his alleged ability to cure Alexis, their only son, who suffered from hemophilia.

Question 24: Treaty of Rapallo

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Military agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union under which each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and WWI. A secret annex allowed Germany to train their military in Russia