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Question | Answer |
What were soviets? | Worker’s councils in the industrial cities of Russia |
Who seized power in Russia in the February Revolution? | The Russian Provisional Government, a coalition of mainly liberals and moderate socialists |
What were the July Days? | Demonstrations in Petrograd against the Provisional Government |
Who became leader in Russia from July to October 1917? | Alexander Kerensky |
Who was the main opponent of the Russian Provisional Government? | The Petrograd Soviet |
What was the peace treaty between Germany and Russia, signed in March 1918, called? | The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was in exile in another country. Which one? | Switzerland |
One of Lenin’s slogans in the revolution consisted of only three words. What were they? | Bread, land and peace |
What were the two belligerents in the Russian Civil War called? | The Reds and The Whites |
What was the name of Russia’s army after the October Revolution? | The Red Army (or The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army) |
What was the name of Lenin’s temporary economic policy from 1921? | New Economic Policy (NEP) |
What does USSR stand for? | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
What was Lenin’s actual name (Lenin was an alias)? | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov |
What was Lenin’s political party called (before he took power)? | The Bolsheviks |
What was the Politburo? | The highest policy-making committee within the Communist Party |