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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
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