ESS Russian Revolution Exam

Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Party?

• Karl Marx
• Vladimir Lenin 
• Adolf Hitler 
• Nicholas Romanov II

Which country helped Lenin return from exile in order to hope he would weaken their enemy?

• Germany
• France
• Switzerland
• Great Britain

The October/November revolution in 1917 resulted in:

• creation of the Duma

• Czar abdicating the throne ending the Romanov Dynasty

• the Bolsheviks coming to power; also called the Bolshevik Revolution

• Stalin comes to power; also known as the Soviet Union

What was Russia's name changed to after the Russian Revolution?

• Serbia
• USSR or Soviet Union
• St. Petersburg
• Stalingrad

Government control of all means of production and the economy is a part of the political system known as

• Oligarchy.
• Communism.
• Anarchy
• Democracy.

This person is known as the father of communism and co-wrote the "Communist Manifesto"

• Karl Marx
• Robert Owens
• Aristotle
• Vladimir Lenin

Which is a major cause of the Russian Revolution?

• Russians wanted Czar Nicholas to have more power.

• Russia's involvement in WWI, Russians' basic needs not being met, autocratic Czars

• Russia wanted to conquer more empires.

• Different ethnic groups wanted to wanted to have equal rights; the country wanted to defeat Germany in WWI

Two causes of the Russian Revolution were...

• everyone loved the tsars

• the poor working conditions of the peasants and workers

• World War I

• The high wages and great medical care

Harsh camps that Lenin and Stalin sent their opponents to

• Gulags

• Concentration Camps

• Dumas

• N/A

Stalin's great removal of any opponents in government, military, church, etc. over 1 million killed and left Russian Army in disarray

• Great Purge

• Five Year Plan

• Red October

• N/A