The Russian Revolution and Soviet Union

Anyone who displeased the Tsars were killed or sent to prison in Siberia. True or False?

• True

• False

A system in which all private property is owned by the community and shared by all.

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Democracy

• Globalisation

Why were the people of Russia upset?

• Poverty

• Losing war/lack of supplies

• The people were loving life

• Ineffective government

What year did the Russian Revolution take place?

• 1914

• 1915

• 1916

• 1917

The Bolsheviks seized power in the revolution. Who was the leader?

• Stalin

• Trotsky

• Lenin

• Tsar Nicholas II

What happened straight after the Revolution?

• Everyone was happy.

• Civil War

• World War II

• Lenin died

What year did the Civil War finish, and who won?

• 1922, Reds won

• 1922, Whites won

• 1918, Reds Won

• 1935, Whites won

After Lenin's death in 1924, the battle for leadership of the Soviet Union was mainly between who?

• Lenin and Trotsky

• Trotsky and Tsar Nicholas II

• Trotsky and Stalin

• Stalin and Hitler

Speaking of Tsar Nicholas II, what happened to him?

• Moved to Switzerland

• Committed suicide

• Joined the Bolsheviks

• Was executed along with his family

Select ONE method which Stalin used to consolidate power

• Getting help from Britain

• Terror

• Propaganda

• Free and fair elections