Russian Revolution Quiz 4

What was the Sovnarkom?

• The most powerful executive of the new government.

• An elected congress of Soldier and Worker deputies

• Lenin's secret police

• A replacement name for the new Duma.

Which of the following was NOT a technique that the Bolsheviks used in an attempt to consolidate their control over Russian society?

• Created posters encouraging the looting of wealthy

• Encouraged class warfare as a means of intimidating the middle class

• Using the Cheka to arrest, imprison and the execute rising opposition

• Sharing power with the Mensheviks, SRs and other socialist groups in the Soviet

What was the Cheka?

• The most powerful executive of the new government.

• An elected congress of Soldier and Worker deputies

• Lenin's secret police

• A replacement name for the new Duma.

What was the full name of the government established by the Bolsheviks on 26 October 1917?

• All Russian Congress of Soviets

• Council of People's Ministers

• Council of People's Commissars

• All-Union Congress of Soviets

What is "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky known for?

• Being the party leader of the Kadets

• He was the founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka

• Destroying the statue of a brutal Soviet Union leader in Moscow Square

• Signing a treaty that allowed the Soviet Union to split into 15 nation-states

Which of the following was NOT a reform by the Soviet government in 1917?

• Decree on War Communism brought all industry under government control

• Decree on Land ordered redistribution of the gentry's farmland.

• Declaration on Right of Peoples of Russia gave autonomy to minorities.

• Decree on Hours of Work introduced the 8 hour workday

Which of the following BEST DESCRIBES the nature of the Soviet Government?

• An openly Communist dictatorship

• Portrayed as democratic, but actually a one-party Bolshevik dictatorship

• Democratically elected by workers and peasants

• A powerless organisation, as all real power was held by the Bolsheviks

Lenin described the new society as a 'dictatorship of the proletariat'. What did this mean?

• A new form of government where only workers could vote

• A transitional stage before communism, where workers destroy capitalism

• A utopia in which all wealth is shared by the poor workers

• A new type of democratic government based on local soviets

What percentage of the vote did the Bolsheviks win at the Constituent Assembly elections (Nov 1917)?

• 17%

• 24%

• 47%

• 55%

Why did Lenin dismiss the Constituent Assembly on 5 January 1918?

• The Kadets won a majority, and refused to approve Lenin's laws.

• Lenin claimed Soviet Democracy was better than a 'bourgeois parliament'

• The assembly refused to Lenin's plans for land reform

• The SRs won a majority, and refused to accept the soviet government.