Russian Rev/Stalin/Depression/Fascism Exam

Several factors led to the final collapse of Czarist Russia and ushered in successful revolution. They included Bloody Sunday, WWI, and…

• Rasputin’s assassination

• re-formation of the Duma

• establishment of the Duma

• the February Revolution

Who was Vladimir I. Lenin?

• Menshevik leader and a moderate revolutionary

• Bolshevik leader and a radical revolutionary

• Tsarina Romanov's 2nd in command while Nicholas II was at the WWI front

• Stalin's 2nd in command once Trotsky took over command of the revolutionary army

These local councils throughout Russia became the new organization of government during and after the revolution.

• unions

• Bolsheviks

• Mensheviks

• soviets

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What was the beginning source of distrust between the communist East (Russia) and the democratic West (U.S. and her allies)?

• U.S. and her western European allies backed the White Menshevik Army in the Russian Civil War

• U.S. and her western European allies backed the radical Red Bolshevik Army in the Russian Civil War

• U.S. stayed out of the Russian Civil War by taking no sides and ignoring the issue

• Britain backed Nicholas II and his family in the Russian Civil War and tried to put him back on the throne

This plan by Lenin allowed peasants to sell crops for profit, led to limited economic recovery, and allowed political reforms, like reorganization into the USSR, to take place. What was this called?

• Five-Year Plan

• Peace, Land, and Bread

• New Frontier

• New Economic Policy

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

I led to quick and massive improvements in industrial output, I limited consumer goods in favor of heavy industry, and I also helped lead an agricultural revolution in Russia. What am I?

• Two-Year Plans

• Kulak Reforms

• Tsarist Reforms

• Five-Year Plans

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Stalin began his brutal takeover of Russia after Lenin’s death. He started by switching Russia’s economic system into a , in which all economic decisions were made by the government.

• free-enterprise econ.

• mixed economy

• command economy
• capitalist economy

What were two important characteristics about the Agricultural Revolution under Stalin? Choose the correct combination of characteristics.

• 1) government seized farms & forced labor was used to feed the country; 2) agricultural output doubled

• 1) government allowed farmers to sell crops for profits; 2) profits were then used to double agricultural output until foul weather ruined everything

This brutal action by Stalin eliminated anyone Stalin did not trust, including former Bolshevik allies and military officers he looked at as disloyal or too popular. This action led to a huge lack of needed military leadership later:

• The Great Purge

• The Great Leap Forward

• The Great Reform

• The Grand Plan

Indoctrination occurs when the education system, newspapers, and even peoples' jobs are involved in promoting the policies and beliefs of the government.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4