Interwar Period

Who were the Bolsheviks?

• Soldiers in the White Army                       

• Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries                  

• Members of the Duma, Russia’s parliament

•                  Followers of Rasputin

What did the pogroms that occurred in the late 19^th century Russia do?

• Violently persecute Jews               

• Kill all the Kulaks                           

   

• Enlist the aid of foreigners

•                        Establish a Communist Council

   

What is a totalitarian state?

• A state in which the people have a direct say in their government

• A state in which the people elect representatives to the legislature

• A state in which the government controls every aspect of public & private life

•    A state in which working class is glorified & has the greatest voice in government

What was the purpose of the Soviet state’s Five-Year Plans?

• Foreign policy               

• Political reform                 

• social restructuring

•     economic development

How did czars Alexander III and Nicholas II deal with calls for reform?

• They immediately moved to enact reforms  

• They made a few reforms but not all                   

• they resisted all efforts for reform

   

• They appointed ministers to study reforms

   

How did the Russo-Japanese war show the czar’s weakness?

• His insults to the Japanese emperor caused the war      

• His poor military strategy prevented his generals from gaining territory

• News of repeated losses sparked unrest and led to revolt during the war

• All of the above

Which of the following reflects the leader who was responsible for the Great Purge and the main group that was victimized by it?

• Lenin---- the Mensheviks

• Lenin ---- the Bolsheviks

• Stalin ----members of the Nazi Party

• Stalin ---- members of the Communist Party

Which event did NOT happen immediately after the Bolshevik Revolutions?

• The workers took control of factories

• Farmland was distributed among the peasants

• A truce was signed with Germany

• A totalitarian state was established

What was started under Stalin to improve the Soviet Union’s economy?

• Industrial and agricultural revolutions

• Bolshevik and Communist revolutions

• socialists and totalitarian revolutions

• all of the above

How did the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II help pave the way for revolution?

• They both upheld an autocratic government without reform

• They supported rapid industrialization at the expense of the treasury

• They instituted pogroms to weed out revolutionary thinkers

• They saw to it that the poor were imprisoned for debts