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Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

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1.

The successes of the Red Army can be summarised into four elements. Which is not one of these elements?

a)

The area under Bolshevik control

b)

The Commisar of War

c)

Peasant armies supporting the Red army

d)

United sense of purpose

2.

Under the ideology implemented by Lenin, a civil war was indicative of...?

a)

Frustrations about World War I

b)

Direct disappointment in the authoritarian tsarist regime

c)

Peasants and working class working together for a communist utopia

d)

Tensions between the proletariat and bourgeois

3.

Which of the following is not a benefit for the Bolsheviks in controlling the central European side of Russia

a)

Control an area which is ethnically varied

b)

Retaining ammunition supplies

c)

Larger population

d)

Key factories reside in the area

4.

How did the Bolsheviks justify their actions during the civil war?

a)

It was a necessary grab of power for the starved and tireless efforts of peasantry

b)

It was imperative that the Whites were defeated and Russia was restored to her original greatness

c)

The class struggle is necessary for an equitable socialist society

d)

A patriotic defence of the quasi capitalist motherland

5.

Who is the Commissar of War?

a)

Martyn Latsis

b)

Felix Dzerzhinsky

c)

Vladimir Lenin

d)

Leon Trotsky

6.

Which of the following is not a struggle for the White Army

a)

Inspiration of the troops

b)

No common goal

c)

Not all opposed the Bolsheviks

d)

Corruption in the lower ranks of the army

7.

What does Pipes argue was the "principal Bolshevik intention" when forming the Cheka

a)

Repression of all opponents

b)

Suppression of the White Army

c)

Intelligence on potentional foreign threats

d)

The repression of minority groups

8.

How was the Red Terror justified?

a)

It would guard the revolution

b)

It would lead to socialism

c)

It was revolutionary justice

d)

All of the above

e)

None of the above, it was the unchecked power of Dzerzhinsky

9.

When were the Romanov's executed?

a)

17 January 1918

b)

17 June 1918

c)

17 July 1917

d)

17 January 1917

10.

Which of the following was not a feature of the White Terror

a)

Antisemitism

b)

Anti-communist

c)

Targeting factories

d)

Brutal and unrelenting violence