What month was the Bolshevik revolution, in 1917?
February
April
October
December
Who was the first leader of the Bolshevik party?
Stalin
Lenin
Tsar
Trotsky
Of what descent was Leon Trotsky?
Polish
Ukrainian
German
Russian
The Red Army was brutal. How many 1 in ? men were shot as a form of punishment?
10
13
60
2
What month, in 1917 did Lenin create the first secret police?
November
August
What year did Lenin introduce the Decree against factionalism?
1917
1928
1921
1923
What month in 1921, did Lenin end War communism?
May
What did the N.E.P allow?
Private ownership of industry if fewer than 100 workers were employed
That the state would own half of your business
You were not allowed to have your own business
Private ownership if fewer than 10 workers were employed
What message did the Bolshevik party try and promote?
Peace, Land, Bread,Freedom!
Work, State, Unity, Reward!
Supremacy, Communism, Trust, Faith!
Fairness, Equality, Unity, Together!
How many stages are there to Marxism?
5
9
6
3
What was the third stage?
Imperialism
Socialism
Feudalism
Capitalism
What % of the Russian population were peasants?
80%
60%
90%
30%
What stage of the Marxist theory did Lenin skip out?
What year did Lenin release his political testament?
1927
1922
How did Joseph Stalin first raise money for the Bolshevik party?
Gambling on the stock market
Robbing Banks
Printing his own money
Through his inheritance
What year was Stalin given the post of General Sectary?
1924
1919
Who has established themselves as the 'obvious successor' to Lenin?
Zinoviev
Bukharin
In his political testament, who does Lenin describe as having an 'excess of self confidence'?
Kamenev
How did Lenin feel about how the potential candidates should 'rule' the Bolshevik Party?
One on their own
As a collective leadership
They each should have a year leading
The candidates should elect peers to represent them
What was the title of the series of lectures that Stalin gave?
Lessons on Marxist
Becoming a great communist citizen
Foundations of Leninism
How to become a good worker for the state
As his position of General Sectary Stalin was in charge of how many of the top officials?
9,000
3,500
7,000
5,500
In what year was Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev against Trotsky?
1925
1926
What year was Trotsky deported from the Soviet Union?
1929
What does Pravda stand for?
Communism
Unity
Truth
Supremacy
For his 50th birthday, Stalin was featured in Pravda. What was he described as?
A messiah of God
The Lenin of today
Our saviour
The Communist angel
What were Kulaks?
Good Communists
Hard workers
Rich peasants
Prisoners
Which one of the following was an adaption that Stalin made to the Marxist theory?
Created a cult of Lenin
Added the secondary communist stage
Increase international relations
Pushed the N.E.P policy further
What year was the first five year plan introduced?
In the 1928 Shakhty trial how many technicians and engineers were investigated?
49
51
53
65
What was introduced to monitor movements within the Soviet Union?
Stamp cards
Internal passports
State tattoos
Coloured rings
By 1937, what % of milk was coming from private plots?
70%
Stalin took the credit from whom for the preparation of the 1936 constitution?
Kemenev
What year did the Great Purge start?
1934
1937
1935
1936
How many of the mosques were closed down?
10,000
12,000
5,000
What was the new artistic style that was used in an attempt to restrict cultural diversity?
Communist luxury
Leninism
Kulaks
Socialist Realism
What year was the the union of Soviet writers written?
1034
1931
1932
How many million copies of How the Steel was tempered were sold as school texts?
Was year was the film the Happy Guys released?
1933