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WorksheetsRussia GCSE
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
- What was the name of the ruler of Russia in 1914?
Alexander Kerensky
Tsar Nicholas II
Vladimir Lenin
Prince Lvov
- What was the name of the ruler of Russia in 1914?
Alexander Kerensky
Tsar Nicholas II
Vladimir Lenin
Prince Lvov
Which political party had a lot of support from peasants?
Kadets
SRs
Bolsheviks
Mensheviks
Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1917?
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Alexander Kerensky
Vladimir Lenin
What is the Russian word for parliament?
Pravda
Sovnarkom
Soviet
Duma
What special day of marches led to the outbreak of the February Revolution
International Worker's Day
Armed forces Day
International Women's Day
Army and workers support day
Why was it a mistake for the Tsar to take personal charge of the army?
He was away from Petrograd when trouble began.
He would be blamed for defeats and that would make him less popular.
He left his son in charge.
He was scared of gunfire.
What is the Russian word for a revolutionary council of workers, soldiers and peasants?
Duma
Pravda
Soviet
Niet
What was the title of Lenin's publication produced when he first returned to Russia?
February Papers
April Theses
July Days
August briefing
Who led the military revolt against the Provisional Government in August 1917?
General Kornilov
Alexander Kerensky
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Pick two of the Bolsheviks most famous slogans from the list below.
Peace, bread, land.
Take back control
Make Russia Great again
All power the Soviets
What was the name of the parliament that briefly met in January 1917?
Duma
Constituent assembly
Sovnarkom
Gulag
Which political party won the most seats in the parliament that met briefly in January 1918?
SRs
Bolsheviks
Kadets
Mensheviks
What was the name of the Treaty by which Russia left WW1?
Treaty of Versaillies
Treaty of Petrograd
Treaty of Yekaterinburg
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
What were the colours used to describe the three forces in the Russian Civil war?
Red, blue, white
Green, blue, white
White, green, red
Blue, white, green
Who was Commissar for war during the Civil War?
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
General Yudenich
Leon Trotsky
What name is used to describe the policy of running of the economy in the Civil War?
War communism
War bolshevism
Communism for conflict
Fatherland in danger
Sailors from which naval base revolted in 1921?
Odessa
Kronstadt
Petrograd
Moscow
What does NEP stand for?
New equality party
Never equal policy
Now equal powers
New economic policy
In what year was the USSR set up?
1917
1920
1922
1924
What does USSR stand for?
United States of Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Socialist States and Regions
United Societies of Socialist Russia
