Ch 14 Summary: Revolution & Nationalism

 Which event best replaces the question mark in this sequence?  
Russia 1917-1918
• Czar Nicholas II abdicated Russian Imperial throne
•  ?
• Bolsheviks seized power and became the Communist Party
• Russia signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers

• A.  Vladimir Lenin returned to lead the Russian Revolution 
• B. Leon Trotsky escaped Russia for exile in Mexico 
• C. The Russian government adopted the New Economic Policy 
• D. The Red Army won the Russian Civil War

Which group of people revolted against the Russian revolutionary provisional government in 1917?

• A.  the Bolsheviks 
• B. the Czarists 
• C. the nobility 
• D. the clergy

During Josef Stalin’s rule, Russians only had access to select information. This is an example of

• A.  suffrage. 
• B. democracy. 
• C. fascism. 
• D. censorship.

Josef Stalin’s policy of agricultural collectivization led to

• A.  an economic treaty with China.
• B. closer economic ties with the United States. 
• C. reforms that increased food surpluses in the Soviet Union. 
• D. a destructive famine in the Ukraine.

Which one of the events listed below identifies the campaign of terror that Josef Stalin implemented against other Communist Party leaders during the mid-1930s?

• A.  New Economic Policy 
• B. Bloody Sunday 
• C. collectivization 
•  D. the Great Purge

Who were the Bolsheviks?

• Soldiers in the White Army
• Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries
• Members of the Duma (Russia's Parliament) 
• Followers of Rasputin 

Which of the following was not a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution? 

• Lenin
• Marx
• Trotsky
• Stalin

A government that takes complete control over every aspect of public and private life is called:

• Democracy
• Totalitarianism
• Constitutional Monarchy
• Utopianism

Who took over the Soviet Union following the death of Lenin in 1924?

• Trotsky
• Trotsky
• Stalin
• Kerensky

The Great Purge was:

• the government's plan to take over all farms in the Soviet Union
• Stalin's plan to increase factory production
• the government's plan to educate children in school
• Stalin's efforts to eliminate all political opposition