Deck 10: The First World War, 1914-1919

Question 1

Aleksandra Kollontai argued that working class women were doubly exploited, as

A) workers
B) wives and mothers
C) wives and workers
D) citizens of a socialist government

Answer 1

wives and workers

Question 2

Kollontai was thrown out of the Soviet Politburo for supporting the

A) workers' opposition
B) Great Purge
C) Trotskyist faction
D) Bolshevik revolution

Answer 2

workers' opposition

Question 3

Russia's Populists believed in socialism based in

A) industrial democracy
B) ownership of the means of production
C) laissez-faire
D) agriculture communes

Answer 3

agriculture communes

Question 4

The Revolution of 1905 resulted partly from Russia's defeat at the hands of

A) France
B) Japan
C) China
D) Great Britain

Question 5

When Czar Nicholas II took personal command of the Russian armies in WWI, it caused people

A) to blame him for losses
B) to forget about him
C) to respect him more
D) to favor the war

Question 6

One great weakness of the Provisional Government was that

A) they were too radical
B) they were too conservative
C) they supported the war
D) their government was ineffective

Question 7

Lenin's motto, which earned him popular support was

A) bread, land, peace
B) end the war
C) win the war
D) land for all

Question 8

Lenin's government signed a separate peace with Germany called the

A) Treaty of Versailles
B) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
C) Treaty of Tordesillas
D) Peace of Paris

Question 9

The anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian civil war were called the

A) Democrats
B) Reds
C) Liberals
D) Whites

Question 10

The Paris Peace Conference had left the new Soviet Union a pariah state, which meant

A) open to trade
B) limited international investment
C) neutral in war
D) de-militarized

Question 11

Lenin's New Economic Policy was meant to

A) encourage industrial growth
B) create economic equality
C) encourage trade
D) encourage agriculture

Question 12

Trotsky's leftists believed in

A) encouraging revolution abroad
B) liberal economic policies
C) gradual development of socialism
D) political repression

Question 13

Russian peasants who resisted collectivization were rounded up and sent to labor camps called

A) gulag
B) cossack
C) kulak
D) concentration camps

Question 14

Stalin's Five Year Plans focused on improving

A) agriculture
B) heavy industry
C) the financial system
D) infrastructure

Question 15

Stalin's Great Purge focused on

A) wealthy peasants
B) the intelligentsia
C) communist party members
D) foreign spies