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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Great Purge

Answer:

a campaign of terror launched by Stalin in 1934.

Question 2: Boris Yeltsin

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became Russian Republic's first directly elected president.

Question 3: Nicholas II

Answer:

the last czar of Russia.

Question 4: Alexander Kerensky

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Russian lawyer, minister of justice, minister of defense, and eventually prime minister who kept Russia in the war.

Question 5: Kulaks

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is a class of wealthy peasants.

Question 6: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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signed March 3, 1918 by the Bolsheviks and Germans by which Russia lost 1/3 of its population and ¼ of its territory.

Question 7: The Red Guard

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the Military Revolutionary committee (Bolshevik Militia) run by Leon Trotsky.

Question 8: Boyars

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nobles who own land in Russia.

Question 9: Politburo

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was the ruling committee of the Communist party.

Question 10: Reds

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Bolshevik army.

Question 11: Bloody Sunday

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massacre when the czar's palace guards opened fire on several hundred unarmed workers.

Question 12: Ivan the Terrible

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ruled Russia in 1533 and was the first ruler to receive the title czar.

Question 13: Totalitarianism

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a government that took absolute control of the public's private lives.

Question 14: Ethnic Cleansing

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is the act of trying to rid a certain race out of a country.

Question 15: Rasputin

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a man claiming to have healing powers and manipulated the Czarina Alexandra.

Question 16: Whites

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army composed of Lenin's opposition.

Question 17: Trotsky

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military leader of the Red Army.

Question 18: CIS

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The Commonwealth of Independent States or a loose federation of the former Soviet territory.

Question 19: Stolypin

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Russian Prime Minister who made positive lasting reforms.

Question 20: Czar/Tsar

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Russian word meaning "Caesar"

Question 21: Peter the Great

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(1696) First absolute ruler of modern Russia who westernized Russia.

Question 22: Vladimir Lenin

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the leader of the Bolsheviks and the first communist leader of the USSR.

Question 23: Collective Farms

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large government owned farms where they forced people to live.

Question 24: Soviets

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local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers.

Question 25: Cheka

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Lenin's secret police.

Question 26: Communism

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Political ideology based on the ideas of Marx and Lenin.

Question 27: Pogroms

Answer:

organized violence against the Jews supported by the Russian government.

Question 28: Bolsheviks

Answer:

a Marxist group who supported a small number of revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for radical change.