Font size
WorksheetsRussia and the USSR
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
What was the title given to the Monarchs(kings) of Russia?
Dictator
Tsar
President
Premier
The Russian Tsars used a system of rule by one person wielding absolute power, often called...
communism
autocracy (monarchy)
socialism
democracy
Under the Tsars, the majority of Russians were poor peasants called ________________ or farm laborers who could be bought and sold with the land.
serfs
Russian fodder
poboys
intelligentsia
A person who was required to work for their lord and can be compared to a slave was a...
surf
slave
prisoner
serf
The Romanov family ruled Russia for hundreds of years before the 1917 Revolution. The last Tsar's name was __________________.
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Mahatma Gandhi
Nicholas II
The leader of the Bolsheviks was...
Joseph Stalin
Nicholas II
Rasputin
Vladimir Lenin
What was the historical event that saw the fall of the Russian monarchy and the creation of the world's first communist country?
World War II
Russian Revolution
Cold War
Crimean War
Eventually the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the ________________ party (based on the writing of Karl Marx) and took all power in the government.
Socialist
Communist
Leninist
Marxist
What is Collectivization?
Stalin’s measure of allowing peasants to own their own farms
Stalin’s measure of merging small individual farms into larger collective farms (kolkhoz)
Stalin’s measure of focusing on building heavy industries
Stalin’s measure of allowing Kulaks to take over the farms of poorer peasants
Farmers being forced to give up their land to the government and then farm for free is called...
Collectivization
Command
Working together
Agriculture
What name was given to the Russian empire after the Russian Revolution?
The Motherland
Bolshevikland
USSR or the Soviet Union
New Russia
What were gulags?
elite military division created by Stalin
Lines waiting for food in Russia
Fields people could work in
Prison camps in Siberia for people who didn't agree with communism
Most Russians follow which religion?
Protestantism
Roman Catholicism
Judaism
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
The majority group in Russia today are
Ukrainians
Slavs
Belorussians
Chechens
