Lesson 4
4 Economic and social change, 1918–24 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 14
20 questions
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The 20 questions
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What was the main economic policy of the Russian Civil War period?
- State Capitalism
- War Communism
- Collectivisation
- New Economic Policy
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Which economic policy replaced War Communism in 1921?
- Great Leap Forward
- War Socialism
- New Economic Policy
- Five-Year Plan
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What system of agricultural payment was introduced by the NEP?
- Tax in kind
- Forced requisitioning
- Total crop confiscation
- Voluntary donation
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How did War Communism treat private trade?
- Taxed it heavily
- Banned it
- Regulated it
- Encouraged it
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What was the main purpose of the Zhenotdel department?
- Directing military strategy
- Promoting women's rights
- Managing factory output
- Training secret police
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Which 1918 legislation revolutionised marriage and divorce laws in Soviet Russia?
- Property Charter
- Socialist Decree
- Civil Rights Act
- The Family Code
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Which key educational initiative was launched across Soviet Russia between 1919 and 1924?
- Private boarding schools
- Church-run academies
- Mass literacy campaigns
- Compulsory university fees
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What was the cultural movement known as Proletkult designed to promote?
- Working-class culture
- Bourgeois art
- Classical aristocracy
- Religious traditions
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Which 1921 economic policy allowed peasants to sell surplus grain for profit?
- Collectivisation
- War Communism
- The NEP
- Gosplan
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Which economic activity was permitted under the NEP but banned during War Communism?
- State monopolies
- Small private trade
- Forced labour
- Grain requisitioning
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What severe crisis directly forced Lenin to replace War Communism with the NEP?
- Foreign naval blockade
- Hyperinflation
- General strike
- Famine and peasant revolts
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Which economic sectors experienced the fastest recovery under the NEP by 1924?
- Agriculture and light industry
- Heavy industry and mining
- Banking and insurance
- Railways and shipping
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What term described a private trader or small businessman who profited under the NEP?
- Bolshevik
- Nepman
- Commissar
- Kulak
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Which policy introduced in 1921 replaced War Communism with limited market freedom?
- New Economic Policy
- War Communism
- Five-Year Plan
- Collectivisation
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What major factor caused severe urban worker discontent during War Communism?
- Strict rationing
- Trade unions
- Tax cuts
- Factory closures
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Which region suffered the highest mortality in the devastating 1921–22 famine?
- Moscow oblast
- Siberian plains
- Petrograd district
- Volga region
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Who led the People’s Commissariat for Education (Narkompros) for much of this period?
- Nikolai Bukharin
- Anatoly Lunacharsky
- Leon Trotsky
- Felix Dzerzhinsky
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Which artistic movement flourished with state tolerance in the early Soviet 1920s?
- Socialist Realism
- Romanticism
- Avant-garde
- Neoclassicism
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Which 1918 decree officially separated the Russian church and state?
- Decree on Peace
- Decree on Land
- Decree on Workers
- Decree on Separation
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What main factor limited the scope of early Soviet social reforms?
- Resource shortages
- Foreign aid
- Surplus wealth
- Public apathy
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