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6. Why were the SDLP split into Bolsheviks and Menshiviks?

  • Lenin had a persecution complex
  • Menshiviks wanted a small party and Bolsheviks wanted a mass party
  • Bolsheviks wanted a small party and Menshiviks wanted a mass party
  • Lenin and Trotsky disliked eachother

7. What did the April Theses promise?

  • peace, land, bread and freedom
  • better pay for workers
  • purge the Kulaks
  • independence for women

8. What were three problems the Provisional Government faced?

  • censorship, propaganda, the Church
  • inflation, war, the Petrograd Soviet
  • Stalin, threat from China, the army
  • collectivisation, kulaks, NEP

9. Who marched against the Provisional Government in September 1917?

  • Kerensky
  • General Kornilov
  • Prince Lvov
  • Rasputin

10. What month was the revolution in which the Bolsheviks seized power

  • September
  • November
  • October
  • July

11. Why were the Bolsheviks successful?

  • all of the above
  • they were pratical and organised
  • Trotsky and Lenin were strong leaders
  • they had their own military forces- The Red Guard

12. What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of March 1918?

  • the treaty Britain signed agreeing to America's terms
  • the treaty Hungary signed agreeing to Russia's term
  • the treaty Russia signed agreeing to Germany's terms
  • the treaty Germany signed agreeing to the Allies terms

13. Why did the Bolsheviks win the Civil War 1918-1921?

  • they were united and the Whites were divided
  • they had Britain, America and France
  • they had a larger army
  • the Tsar was in control

14. What was War Communism?

  • a state controlled society to win the war
  • purging the Kulaks
  • peasants owning and selling their own land
  • increasing the pace of industrialisation

15. What was the Kronstadt Rebellion?

  • Stalin rebelled against Kronstadt
  • Kronstadt sailors rebelled and seized the base near Petrorad
  • the peasants rebelled against Kronstadt
  • Lenin and Trotsky rebelled against Kronstadt

16. What was the NEP (New Economic Policy)?

  • a policy reversing War Communism and allowing economic recovery
  • state control of industry and agriculture
  • purging Old Bolsheviks and disloyal Russians
  • the secret police

17. When did Lenin die?

  • 1929
  • 1921
  • 1924
  • 1922

18. What was the main difference between Stalin and Trotsky?

  • Trotsky was the private secretary for the Bolsheviks, Stalin was a Menshivik
  • Trotsky wanted 'Communism in one country'
  • Stalin wanted 'Communism in one country'
  • Trotsky was Lenin

19. How did Stalin win the power struggle?

  • all of the above
  • making himself seem like the natural successor to Lenin
  • removing and appointing senior members of the Communist Party
  • destroying left and right wing

20. What were the purges?

  • Kirov purging the army
  • state control of agriculture
  • the murder/imprisonment of 10 million Russians including disloyal people, artists and writers, and Old Bolsheviks
  • state control of industry