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What was the name of the group that took economic control when Lenin took power?
Vyshenka
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Who was head of the Cheka in the Red Terror
Dzerzinsky
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Who was the first Prime Minister of the Provisional Government
Prince Lvov
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Name a major battle that Russia lost in WW1
Battle of Tannenburg
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By what amount did bread go up by in WW1?
x3
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How many desertions from the Russian army were there from March to May 1917
365000
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How much did real wages drop by in WW1?
down 50%
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By what amount did the national budget increase in WW1?
x8
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What organisation was founded to help casualities and became a centre of liberal discontent in WW1?
ZEMGOR
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Who lead bloody sunday?
Father Gapon
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Who refused orders to fire on crowds before the February Revolution 1917?
Pavlovsky Life Guards
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What revealed the PG's aims of WW2?
The Milyukov Telegram
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Through what did the Soviet declare they would not support the war except to continue the revolution?
'Address to the people of the whole world'
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How many members supported the Bolsheviks by the Kornilov Affair?
200000
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What part of the Petrograd soviet was Tortsky and Bolshevik controlled?
Military Revolutionary Committee
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Where the Romanovs were murdered due to the approaching Czech Legion
Ekaterinburg
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Civil War; who attacked from the east?
Kolchak
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Civil War; who attacked from the south?
Deninken
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Civil War; who attacked Petrograd?
Yudenich
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What amount of the urban population disappeared as a result of War Communism and the Civil war?
1/2
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What year was the Kronstadt Mutiny
1921
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What Party Congress was the end of War Communism announced?
10th
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What year were land captains installed and by who?
1889, by Alexander III
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Who reduced the Franchise as a means of maintaining control and in what year?
Alexander III - 1890
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Who killed a member of the Tsarist Government and sparked the end to the Jury system in 1890?
Vera Zasulich
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What year was the famine under Nicholas II ?
1891
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Between which years did the population double?
1861-1914
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Under Witte, by how much did the population of St Petersburg increase?
x2
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Who inspired the Narodniki movement?
Alexander Herzen
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Where, when and which Party Congress did the SDs split?
1903, 2nd party congress, in London
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By how many votes did the Bolsheviks win at the 2nd Party Congress and which group did this rely on?
Jewish Bund - 17 votes to 15
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Name a radical liberal group ?
Kadets
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What embarassing battle happened in the Russo-Japanese was and how many ships were lost?
Battle of Tsushima, lost 25 out of 35 ships
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What treaty ended Russo-Japanese War?
Treaty of Portsmouth
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How many people moved when Stolypin encouraged the colonisation of Siberia?
3 million people
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What happened to the franchise that formed the 3rd and 4th Duma?
it was restricted to the top 30%
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Name statistics to do with the Great Spurt;
Coal x2, Iron/Steel x7, railway track x2, income from industry x4
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How much did foreign capital increase in the great spurt?
up 120% each year
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Who used the Okhrana prior to 1905 and caused great discontent?
Plehve
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What was a response to the refusal of a national zemstva and caused liberal demands to be formulated?
'Political Banquets'
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What % of the national budget did the Russo-Japanese war demand?
40%
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Under stolypin, what percentage of peasants left the commune in 1914?
25%
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From 1906-14, by what amount did production rise?
16million tonnes
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How many resolutions were passed by the 1st Duma?
2 out of 391
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What manifesto was written in response to the dissolving of the 1st Duma?
The Vyborg Manifesto
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What was the nickname of the 3rd Duma ?
Duma of Lords and Lackeys
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What replaced Land Captains under Stolypin?
Justices of Peace
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What was the name of the alliance between Britain, France and Russia in WW1?
Triple Entente
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What was a successful counter-attack to the German Invasion?
Brusilov Offensive
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What amount of Russian industry was lost int he Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
1/2
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What % of the electorate supported the Bolsheviks in 1918?
25%
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How many died in the Red Terror?
500000
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Who attempted the assassination of Lenin and triggered the Red Terror?
Fanya Kaplan
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What treaty ended the Russo-Polish war?
Treaty of Riga
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Which commander of the Whites relied on Cossack support?
Deninken
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How many people did the Russians control in the heartland of Russia in the civil war?
60million people
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What hypocritical slogan was used by the whites and fuelled Red propaganda
"Russia one and indivisible"
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What is the name of a peasant uprising during War Communism?
Tambov uprising
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By how much did coal and textiles production increase due to NEP?
x2
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By how many votes did Stalin manage to defeat the New Opposition with due to the Lenin Enrolment scheme
559 to 65
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What opposition group was made up of Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky?
The New Opposition
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What is the name of the theory that feared people were only joining the party for well-paid jobs and was being sped up by the Lenin Enrolment?
Bureaucratic Degeneration
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Name of the theory where the communist party would be taken over by a military dictator?
Bonapartism
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What is the opposite to Socialism in One Country?
Permanent Revolution - expand into eastern europre
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How many women entered work between 1928-40?
+1million
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what % of the farming force were women in 1939?
58%
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Name a female Stakhanovite
Pasha Angelina
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When were wedding rings re-introduced?
1936
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What fraction of their salary were men required to pay for child support under stalin?
1/3
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what % of mens salary were women paid under stalin?
60%
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What part of the Communist Party was closed down when Stalin came to power
Zhenodtel
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In what year was abortion prohibited?
1936
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What year was education made compulsory under Stalin
1930
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by 1937, what was the literacy rate?
75%
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What trial of engineers for sabotage took place in 1928 ?
the Shakhty trials
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What was the name of the man blamed for the shooting of Kirov?
Nicholayev
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Who published a report criticising stalin's leadership, contributing to his paranoia?
Riutin
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What % of the male population were executed, exiled or arrested between 1937-8?
10%
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What political theory did Stalin use to justify the extension of the Great Terror into society?
Sharpening Class Struggle
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What Number Order commanded the NKVD to set quotes for executions of members of the public?
Order: 00447
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How many soldiers were purged?
34000
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What was the name of the period between 1932-5 where 20% of the party were expelled peacefully.
Chitska
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What, as a part of Socialist Realism, regulated and commissioned artists and was founded in 1929?
The All Union Cooperative of Workers in Representational Arts
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Name an example of Socialist Realist literature
Cement
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Where was Stalin's 50th birthday celebrations
the shadow of lenin's statue
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Who wqas 'Leader, Teacher, Friend' painted by?
Grigori Shegal
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The name for a collective farm?
Kolkhoz
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How many were deported during collectivisation
1 million
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What is an example of peasant resistance in collectivisation?
women protesting
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What % of farms were left out of the MTS system?
50%
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Famine 1932-1934 how many people died?
10million
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How many kulaks were exiled?
10million
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From what year did production of grain fall?
1926
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By how much did the urban population increase in the 1930s?
x3
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By what year were ALL farms collectivised?
1941
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By how much did grain exports increase in collectivisation?
x2
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What was the name of the law passed in 1932 that allowed the death penalty for stealing grain?
Five Stalks Law
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What out performed any other previous economic system in Russia?
Five Year Plans
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How many died building the white sea canal?
200 000
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How many times more coal was produced by stakhanovite than the normal shift?
x14
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In the third FYP how may aircraft factories were built and how many explosives?
6, 24
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2nd five year plan: what was a consequence of shortages?
rise of 80% in prices of bread/eggs
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How much did electricity increase after the First Five Year Plan?`
x3
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What commodity exceeded its target in the First Five Year Plan?
Oil
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By what % did the economy grow per year in the Five Year Plans?
up 14%
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were % of managers in the donbass region were killed in the terror?
25%
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what % of soldier's calorie intake in WW2 was provided by Lend Lease?
17%
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Lend Lease provided how many trains and what kind of transport?
1900 out of 2000 and jeeps
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How many churches were reopened by Stalin in WW2?
414
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How many factories were relocated to the East in WW2?
more than 1500
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