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Which statement describes a similarity between the French Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia? - Answer-Both revolutions were the result of government denial of basic human rights and stressful economic conditions.
The Bols...
Russian Revolution Exam
Questions and Answers All
Correct
Which statement describes a similarity between the French Revolution and the
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia? - Answer-Both revolutions were the result of
government denial of basic human rights and stressful economic conditions.
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was a major turning point in history because -
Answer-Russia became the first nation with a communist economic system
Which type of political system did V. I. Lenin, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini establish
in their countries? - Answer-totalitarianism
Which aspect of the economy was emphasized in Joseph Stalin's five-year plans -
Answer-heavy industry
A major goal of Joseph Stalin' s five-year plans was to - Answer-transform the Soviet
Union into an industrial power
Under Joseph Stalin, peasants in the Soviet Union were forced to - Answer-join
collective farms
Joseph Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union was characterized by the - Answer-
establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship
What was the major goal of Joseph Stalin's five-year plans in the Soviet Union -
Answer-encouraging rapid industrialization
An economic accomplishment of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin was - Answer-
increasing production of heavy industrial machinery
In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin governed by means of secret police, censorship, and
purges - Answer-totalitarian
Checka - Answer-secret police who executed ordinary citizens.
proletariat - Answer-the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and
urban wage earners.
, Raspustin - Answer-illiterate peasant/monk and self-proclaimed "holy man." Czar
Nicholas II'S wife allowed to control gov't whiles Nicholas II was in war.
Nicholas II - Answer-Czar/King of Russia during World War I and the Russian
Revolution. (murdered by communists/Bolsheviks)
Bolshevik - Answer-communist political party that was led by Vladimir Lenin in 1917
(Russia)
Lenin's N.E.P. (New economic policy) - Answer-It allowed some capitalist ventures.
Although the state kept control of banks, foreign trade, and large industries, small
businesses were allowed to reopen for private profit. Under the N.E.P- peasants held on
to small plots of land and freely sold their surplus crops. Lenin's compromise with
capitalism helped the Soviet economy recover and ended armed resistance to the new
government. By 1928, food and industrial production climbed back to prewar levels. The
standard of living improved too. But lenin always saw the NEP as just a temporary
retreat from communism.
War with Communism - Answer-The communists used terror not only against the
Whites, but also to control their own people. The communists also set up a network of
forced labor camps in 1919- which grew under Stalin into the dreaded Gulag.
WAR COMMUNISM - Answer-took over banks, mines, factories, and railroads.
Peasants in the countryside were forced to deliver almost all of their crops to feed the
army and hungry people in the cities. Peasant labors were drafted into the military or
forced to work in factories.
Trotsky - Answer-A brilliant Marxist thinker, a skillful speaker, and an architect of the
Bolshevik Revolution. Turned the Red Army into an effective fighting force. He used
former tsarist officers under the close watch of commissars, communist party officials
assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty. Trotsky's
passionate speeches roused soldiers to fight. He urged support for a world-wide
revolution against capitalism. Trotsky fled the country 1929 but continued on building
socialism at home first. Stalin isolated Trotsky within the party and stripped him of party
membership. Trotsky fled the country in 1929, but continued to criticize Stalin. In 1940,
a Stalinist agent murdered Trotsky in Mexico.
New Gov't, same problems - Answer-In 1922, Lenin's communist government united
much of the old Russian empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) or
Soviet Union. The communists produced a constitution that seemed both democratic
and socialist. It set up an elected legislature, later called the Supreme Soviet, and gave
all the citizen over 18 the right to vote. All political power, resources, and ,means of
production would belong to workers and peasants. The Soviet Union was a
multinational state made up of European and Asian peoples. All member republics
shared certain equal rights.
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