Russian Rev AOS2 Lesson 8

Kronstadt was a naval base close to which city?

• Petrograd (St Petersburg)

• Moscow

• Warsaw

• Berlin

• Vladivostok

Identify reasons for the Kronstadt revolt (select all correct answers).

• War Communism

• No voting/representation/democracy

• Many sailors were conservative

• Kronstadt sailors supported workers and peasants

• Corruption within Communist Party

Who said the Kronstadt sailors were 'the reddest of the red', meaning they were loyal communists?

• Lenin

• Trotsky

• Kollontai

• Martov

• Felix Dzerzhinsky

The response to the Kronstadt Revolt from Trotsky and the Red Army included (select all correct answers)

• Letting everyone go

• Crushing the uprising

• Negotiating with the leaders

• Executions

• Imprisonment/ Exile

The outcome of the Kronstadt Revolt was...

• Lenin ignored the Kronstadt petition. Nothing changed.

• Lenin relaxed War Communism and allowed some capitalism back (New Economic Policy)

• Lenin gave in to all the demands of the petition.

• Lenin stood down from power.

• Lenin made War Communism worse.