Lenin and the Bolsheviks

Russian Revolution Quiz

Lenin and Stalin

Unsettled Times

• Bolsheviks: revolutionaries who plotted to overthrow the czar

• Set up soviets: councils of workers and soldiers

Multiple Choice

Who were the revolutionaries that wanted to overthrow the czar in Russia?

• soviets

• Bolsheviks

• Nazis

Vladimir Lenin

• Read Marxist ideas

• Wanted an elite group to lead a revolution

• “Peace, Land, and Bread”

  
  

Multiple Choice

Vladimir Lenin transformed the Soviet Union into a __________ state.

• democratic

• monarch

• communist

Multiple Choice

If I wanted to live in a country where EVERYONE is EQUAL and the government owns and runs everything, I would want to live in a......

• communist nation

• democratic nation

Stalin in the Soviet Union

• Joseph Stalin → leader of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin’s death (remember the Russian Revolution)

• Transformed Soviet Union into major industrial and military power

Multiple Choice

Who did Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union after?

• Vladimir Lenin

• Adolf Hitler

• George Bush

Total control

• Purges: Stalin arrested or executed anyone who opposed his rule

• Gulags: Stalin sent opponents to labor camps →  many died due to the harsh conditions

• Censorship: Stalin strictly controlled  spread of information → made sure everything favored him and his rule

Multiple Choice

Labor camps where people died due to harsh conditions.

• purges

• gulags

• censorship

Multiple Choice

Controlling the spread of information.

• purges

• gulags

• censorship

Multiple Choice

Stalin arrested or executed anyone that opposed his rule.

• purges

• gulags

• censorship

Soviet Economic Plans

• 5 Year Plans: Stalin set 5 year goals for industry and agriculture→  focus on military and heavy industry, not consumer goods→ anyone who did not meet goals was sent to the gulags

• Collectivization: Land was seized (taken) from individual farmers→  forced farmers to work together on collective farms owned by the gov’t

Multiple Choice

Stalin's 5 Year Plans were meant to increase

• consumer goods

• quality of life

• industry

Multiple Choice

Collective farms were owned by

• the farmers

• the government

Forced Famine in Ukraine

• Ukraine opposed Stalin’s rule and collectivization

• Stalin forced all food produced in Ukraine to be sent to Russia→  left nothing for the Ukrainians→ causing 10 million to die

Multiple Choice

The famine in Ukraine is an example of

• genocide

• a human rights violation

• both