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

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

7. What did Lenin mean when he spoke of the "prison of the peoples"?

  • He was against Witte's comment, "the Jews are too oppressed".
  • National movements formed a central part of revolution
  • The Tsar's motto of Autocracy, Orthodoxy and Nationality subordinated non-russian peoples to cultural domination
  • Socialist parties in Finland, Poland and the Baltic were grounds for persecution

8. Which principle was not encompassed in populism?

  • Belief Russian path to socialism was autochthonous and separate from West
  • Lenin opposed humanitarian 1891 famine relief so peasants would join proletariat
  • Idealisation of peasantry
  • Primacy of liberty

9. Which of the following should not be included in the lessons Lenin learned after the 1905 revolution?

  • Armed forces proved to be loyal
  • Oppositions movements separated (workers, peasants armed forces)
  • The political freedoms introduced in 1905 such as newspapers and growth of public institutions
  • Fatal split between liberals and democrats

10. What were the May Laws?

  • Laws enshringing rights of monarchy
  • Laws passed by Dumas after 1906
  • Laws passed by Pobedonostsev imposing Jewish Pale 1882
  • Laws ensuring that the Tsar was thought of as a God on earth by the peasants

11. Lenin's second purge of 1918 reduced party membership by how much?

  • 46%
  • 37%
  • 15%
  • 62%

12. The root cause behind why the Whites lost the Civil War (1918-20) was because

  • they failed to get mass population on their side and were not able to build a system of local administration
  • Kolchak a White army commander supported by the Allies was captured and shot in Feb 1917 at Omsk
  • Trotsky resigned position as Army Commander in chief because of his suspicions about Stalin
  • the Whites failed they did not form an alliance with Finns because Lvov was against this

13. Which best describes the Kornilov affair?

  • Kerensky became isolated after misleading Kornilov into believing Petrograd was to be overtaken by force
  • 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
  • Lenin thought the provisional government had been captured by military dictatorship

14. What was article 87 of the Fundamental Laws?

  • It was the article which dissolved the Dumas on July 7 1906
  • A loophole to bypass parliamentry opposition
  • An article which split the state Duma in February 1906
  • Nicholas II was Commander of Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior was beyond control of police

15. After Lenin had his stroke in May 1922 which triumvarate ruled Russia?

  • Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev
  • Stalin, Zinoviev and Trotsky
  • Stalin, Trotsky, Kamenev
  • Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev

16. 25% of Russian industry was in the hands of foreign owners in1890 and by 1914 this had increased to 40%

  • True
  • False

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

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

18. The Smolny autocrats in 1917 did not permit which of the following:

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

19. Which was not a sign of Bolshevism in retreat

  • 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion
  • The Tambov Revolt 1920-1
  • 10th Party Congress introduction of ban on factions
  • 1921 strikes in Moscow

20. Who favoured the 1905 October Manifesto?

  • Conservative liberals, Octoberists, Kadets
  • The Police and Okhrana
  • The Socialist Revolutionaries
  • The Black Hundreds