Quiz questions based on A People's Tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-24

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1. Which best describes the Kornilov affair?

  • Neither peace nor social change could be achieved thru the compromise with bourgeois
  • Kornilov and Kerensky were in conflict over how to save the provional government
  • Kerensky became isolated after misleading Kornilov into believing Petrograd was to be overtaken by force
  • Lenin thought the provisional government had been captured by military dictatorship
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2. The Smolny autocrats in 1917 did not permit which of the following:

  • The formation of the Cheka
  • Politcal Elections
  • The abolition of the Constituent Assembly
  • The Declaration of the Rights of Nations

3. Between Jan and Oct 1906 how many times was the army used to put down peasant uprisings?

  • 2,700
  • Less than 500
  • 1,500
  • 3,100

4. Which best describes the New Economic policy introduced in 1920?

  • Stalin abolished it in 1928 as part of the Great Turn
  • There was forced labour supression of trade unions
  • Lenin overturned War Communism and introduced a mixed economy
  • the nep men introduced free trade

5. Which of the following changes were not encompassed in the Russian Great Reforms?

  • 1864 Peasants were removed from Customary Law
  • 1864 Zemstvos elected assemblies of local government dominated by gentry
  • 1865 new laws on censorship
  • 1863 Universites and primary schools reformed
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