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Russia and the USSR

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the title given to the Monarchs(kings) of Russia?

a)

Dictator

b)

Tsar

c)

President

d)

Premier

2.

The Russian Tsars used a system of rule by one person wielding absolute power, often called...

a)

communism

b)

autocracy (monarchy)

c)

socialism

d)

democracy

3.

Under the Tsars, the majority of Russians were poor peasants called ________________ or farm laborers who could be bought and sold with the land.

a)

serfs

b)

Russian fodder

c)

poboys

d)

intelligentsia

4.

A person who was required to work for their lord and can be compared to a slave was a...

a)

surf

b)

slave

c)

prisoner

d)

serf

5.

The Romanov family ruled Russia for hundreds of years before the 1917 Revolution. The last Tsar's name was __________________.

a)

Vladimir Lenin

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Mahatma Gandhi

d)

Nicholas II

6.

The leader of the Bolsheviks was...

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Nicholas II

c)

Rasputin

d)

Vladimir Lenin

7.
A radical group of Marxists (Communists) formed a political party in Russia under Vladimir Lenin, calling themselves the...
a)
Realpolitik
b)
Triviteks
c)
Bolsheviks
d)
Mensheviks
8.

What was the historical event that saw the fall of the Russian monarchy and the creation of the world's first communist country?

a)

World War II

b)

Russian Revolution

c)

Cold War

d)

Crimean War

9.
What happened during the October Revolution?
a)
The Tsar returned to power
b)
The Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government
c)
Russia pulled out of World War I
d)
The Provisional Government defeated the Bolsheviks
10.
Who was involved in the Russian Civil War?
a)
Reds vs Whites
b)
Whites vs Blacks
c)
Reds vs Blacks
d)
White vs Blues
11.
In 1922, Lenin put the various self-governing republics under the control of a central government and called the country the ______________.
a)
NSDAP
b)
NAACP
c)
USSR
d)
NCAA
12.

Eventually the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the ________________ party (based on the writing of Karl Marx) and took all power in the government.

a)

Socialist

b)

Communist

c)

Leninist

d)

Marxist

13.
Lenin suffered a stroke in 1922 and _____________________ took this opportunity to seize power (1922-1927) and become dictator of the USSR. 
a)
Leon Trotsky
b)
Nicholas III
c)
Rasputin
d)
Joseph Stalin
14.

What is Collectivization?

a)

Stalin’s measure of allowing peasants to own their own farms

b)

Stalin’s measure of merging small individual farms into larger collective farms (kolkhoz)

c)

Stalin’s measure of focusing on building heavy industries

d)

Stalin’s measure of allowing Kulaks to take over the farms of poorer peasants

15.

Farmers being forced to give up their land to the government and then farm for free is called...

a)

Collectivization

b)

Command

c)

Working together

d)

Agriculture

16.

What name was given to the Russian empire after the Russian Revolution?

a)

The Motherland

b)

Bolshevikland

c)

USSR or the Soviet Union

d)

New Russia

17.

What were gulags?

a)

elite military division created by Stalin

b)

Lines waiting for food in Russia

c)

Fields people could work in

d)

Prison camps in Siberia for people who didn't agree with communism

18.

Most Russians follow which religion?

a)

Protestantism

b)

Roman Catholicism

c)

Judaism

d)

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

19.

The majority group in Russia today are

a)

Ukrainians

b)

Slavs

c)

Belorussians

d)

Chechens