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USSR - recap

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the leader of Russia before 1917?

a)

Nicholas I

b)

Alexander III

c)

Nicholas II

d)

Alexander I

2.

What year did the Russian Revolution take place?

a)

1915

b)

1916

c)

1917

d)

1918

3.

What is Lenin's full name?

a)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

b)

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

c)

Vladimir Lenin

4.

Who did Lenin want to succeed him?

a)

Gorbachev

b)

Trotsky

c)

Lenin Jr

d)

Nicholas II

5.

Stalin seized power in....

a)

1917

b)

1919

c)

1925

d)

1924

6.

What is the name of the Russian secret police?

(a)  

7.

What is the name of the forced labour camps?

(a)  

8.

How did Stalin seek to improve education and literacy?

a)

Established pre-schools

b)

Introduced free education

c)

Sent illiterate people to the gulags

d)

Made school compulsory till age 17

9.

How many people were sent to the gulags?

a)

18 million

b)

7 million

c)

5 million

d)

23 million

10.

What is the name given to a wealthy peasant?

(a)  

11.

What is the name of the youth group for children aged 9-15?

a)

Octobrists

b)

Komsomol

c)

Cheka

d)

Pioneers

12.

What year did the USSR disband?

a)

1991

b)

1990

c)

1989

d)

1988

13.

Joseph Stalin is Russian

a)

True

b)

False

14.

What event that occurred in the 1930s saw between 750,000 and 1.5 million people die?

(a)  

15.

What is the name of the collective farms?

(a)  

16.

What is Holodomor?

a)

The collective farms

b)

The Ukrainian famine

c)

The secret police

d)

Stalin's middle name