Lesson 2N.1.1

2N.1.1 The Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin, 1917–1929 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 24

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Lesson 2N.1.1, The Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin, 1917–1929: 20 multiple choice questions for the AQA History (7042), Unit 24: 2N Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. Which event in early 1917 forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate?

    • July Days
    • Kornilov Affair
    • February Revolution
    • October Revolution

  2. Which body shared power with the Provisional Government during Dual Authority in 1917?

    • Sovnarkom
    • Constituent Assembly
    • State Duma
    • Petrograd Soviet

  3. Which document of April 1917 outlined Lenin's radical plans for Russia?

    • Order No 1
    • April Theses
    • Peace Decree
    • Communist Manifesto

  4. Which attempted coup in August 1917 was led by General Kornilov against the Provisional Government?

    • The Red Terror
    • The Munich Putsch
    • The Kapp Putsch
    • The Kornilov coup

  5. Which Bolshevik decree of November 1917 called for an immediate end to war?

    • Decree on Workers
    • Edict of Emancipation
    • Decree on Land
    • Decree on Peace

  6. Which body dissolved the elected Constituent Assembly in January 1918?

    • The Provisional Government
    • The Kronstadt sailors
    • The Tsar's ministers
    • The Bolshevik government

  7. Which 1918 treaty formally withdrew Russia from the First World War?

    • Treaty of Rapallo
    • Treaty of Versailles
    • Treaty of Riga
    • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  8. Which Bolshevik policy of 1918 to 1921 involved grain requisitioning and nationalisation of industry?

    • New Economic Policy
    • State Capitalism
    • War Communism
    • The Great Turn

  9. Which uprising of 1921 was crushed by the Red Army and involved sailors who had supported the Bolsheviks in 1917?

    • The Spartacist rising
    • The Tambov revolt
    • The Kronstadt rising
    • The Kapp Putsch

  10. Which policy introduced by Lenin in 1921 reallowed limited private trade and small-scale business?

    • Five-Year Plan
    • New Economic Policy
    • Forced Collectivisation
    • War Communism

  11. Which 1922 treaty restored diplomatic relations and secret military co-operation between Germany and Soviet Russia?

    • Treaty of Rapallo
    • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
    • Treaty of Versailles
    • Nazi-Soviet Pact

  12. What did Lenin primarily warn against in his political testament written in 1922–1923?

    • Return of Tsarism
    • Stalin's growing power
    • Peasant rebellions
    • Trotsky's military coup

  13. Which position, assumed in 1922, allowed Stalin to build a vast network of loyal party supporters?

    • Premier of USSR
    • General Secretary
    • Commissar for War
    • Head of Cheka

  14. What was Trotsky's key theory that opposed Stalin's concept of 'Socialism in One Country'?

    • Proletarian Dictatorship
    • Permanent Revolution
    • Democratic Centralism
    • War Communism

  15. Which policy initiative in 1928 marked the start of the 'Great Turn' in Soviet economic strategy?

    • First Five-Year Plan
    • Abolition of Gosplan
    • New Economic Policy
    • Decree on Land

  16. Which leading figure headed the 'Right Opposition' defeated by Stalin in the late 1920s?

    • Nikolai Bukharin
    • Leon Trotsky
    • Lev Kamenev
    • Grigory Zinoviev

  17. Which country did the Soviet Union sign the Treaty of Berlin with in 1926?

    • Japan
    • France
    • Germany
    • Poland

  18. Which 1924 letter forged to damage the Labour government in Britain is linked to Soviet foreign relations?

    • The Balfour letter
    • The Curzon ultimatum
    • The Zinoviev letter
    • The Morrison telegram

  19. What primary mechanism did Stalin use to defeat rivals during the post-1924 leadership struggle?

    • Foreign intervention
    • Popular elections
    • Military intimidation
    • Party patronage

  20. Which military force, led by Trotsky, secured Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War?

    • Black Guards
    • Green Army
    • White Army
    • Red Army

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