What was The Russo-Japanese War a fight over?
Port Arthur
The Balkans
Nicholas thought he had been chosen by God to be Tsar of Russia
The Tsar referred to the opposition parties as fringe group extremists
A result of the 1905 Revolution was the creation of the St Petersberg Soviet. Who was this led by?
Lenin
Tomsky
Trotsky
Stalin
The first 3 Dumas were unsuccessful due to the large amounts of opposition, such as Left SRs.
Stolypin's main aims were to:
Improve the railway system
De-revolutionising the peasantry
Get rid of the strip system of farming
Bloody Sunday was a purposely violent attack against the Tsar
What were the main long term reasons for World War 1?
Russo-Japanese War
Balkan Wars
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Due to alliances with other countries
Growth of Germany
Rasputin was killed by a member of the peasantry
The February Revolution involved which of the following
Began by revolutionaries
Strikes in factories and on International Women's day
Created the Petrograd Soviet and the Provisional Committee
Nicholas abdicated
The October Revolution caused power to fall into the Bolsheviks hands
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was
A treaty to end the war
A treaty to give the workers 8 hour days and men and women equal rights
A treaty to make sure Nicholas could never return to Russia
The Civil War was the reds against the whites and the purples
Who won the Civil War?
The Reds
The Whites
What was involved in Lenin's Revolution?
The Red Terror
The NEP
The Imprisonment of the Romanovs
War Communism
The Kronstadt Rising was because of the opposition to the NEP
People didn't like Trotsky because he was
A Meshevik
A Man
A Jew
A Christian
Stalin built up his power base because he took a lot of jobs nobody wanted in the party
The Second 5 Year Plan was interrupted because Hitler invaded Germany
What were Stalin's main economic aims?
To increase the strip system of farming
To be self sufficient
To prove himself
Members of the party such as Tomsky, Bukharin and Rykov were executed and 'confessed' they were guilty
Why did Stalin use terror?
Show his own power
Paranoia
Have a better reputation than Lenin
Stalin thought culture was important
The Great Retreat included:
To make abortion easier
To make homosexuality illegal
To give cash payments to those with 3 or more children
Stalin's cult of personality involved him dominating every aspect of Soviet Life
How were youth's indoctrinated by Stalinism?
Youth Movements
Education
Their parents
