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Government of Russia

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is/was the most important communist state throughout history?

a)

Russia

b)

China

c)

The United States of America

d)

Spain

2.

Where (geographically) were/are most communist nations located?

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

The Americas

d)

Australia

3.

What was the goal of communism, according to Marx?

a)

the oppression of the working class

b)

a more equal and fair society

c)

making everybody rich

d)

making everybody poor

4.

What did Marx predict for the future?

a)

The poor would all be killed by the rich

b)

The poor would realize that they had no power

c)

The workers would rise up and overthrow the Capitalist system

d)

education and personal development would bring about a peaceful transformation

5.

Which leader based his rule on the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?

a)

Neville Chamberlain

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Vladimir Lenin

d)

Chiang Kai-shek

6.
Stalin mainly used propaganda to 
a)
promote capitalism
b)
increase support for communism and himself
c)
wage a war against illiteracy
d)
wage a war against smallpox 
7.
The leader you would most identify with de-Stalinization was
a)
Kennedy
b)
Khrushchev 
c)
Pasternak 
d)
Brezhnev
8.

Who was the first directly elected president of Russia?

a)

Boris Yeltsin

b)

Vladimir Putin

c)

Mikhail Gorbachev

d)

Nikita Krushchev

9.

What was Yeltsin's "shock therapy" plan?

a)

a plan to abruptly move to free market economics

b)

a plan to quickly build up nuclear armaments

c)

a plant to quickly reorganize communism

d)

a plan to abruptly halt public elections

10.

Who rules/is in charge of Russia?

a)

Viking Rurik

b)

Vladimir Putin

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

King Nick

11.

Russia' s constitution of 1993 set up ______________________.

a)

a communist system

b)

an alliance with Africa

c)

the federal system of government

d)

the new USSR

12.

What is the capital city of the Russian Federation?

a)

St. Petersburg

b)

Berlin

c)

Moscow

d)

Geneva

13.
Mikhail Gorbachev introduced a change in government policy known as Glasnost. What does this mean
a)
Land Rights
b)
Freedom of Religion
c)
Right to Criticize the government
d)
Purges
14.
What was the name of Russia's last Czar?
a)
Czar Nicholas II
b)
Czar Putin
c)
Czar Lenin
d)
Czar Stalin
15.
Who was the first leader of the Bolsheviks and helped overthrow the Czar to set up the USSR
a)
Stalin
b)
Gorbachev
c)
Lenin
d)
Putin
16.
What was Russia's government before the Russian Revolution?
a)
Democracy
b)
Communism
c)
Monarchy
d)
Socialism
17.
What is another word for Tsar (Czar)?
a)
Immigrant
b)
King
c)
Refugee
d)
Serf/Poor Laboror
18.
Who moved the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg?
a)
Peter the Great
b)
Catherine the Great
c)
Ivan IV
d)
Nicholas II
19.
This group of invaders conquered Russia and taxed the people heavily: 
a)
Huns 
b)
Polish 
c)
Muslims 
d)
Mongols 
20.

Who defeated the Mongols and named himself "czar of Russia"?

a)

Peter the Great

b)

Vladmir Putin

c)

Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)

d)

Joseph Stalin

21.

Describe the way in which Marx believed the change from Capitalism to Communism would occur. Be specific (using key words) and detailed (describing the starting point, change, and result).

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