AQA A-Level History Russia 1917 to 1991 overview quiz quiz

Shared authority between the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet

Joint rule shared between the restored Tsar and the freely elected State Duma assembly

Rule by Lenin and Trotsky together as co-leaders

A governing coalition of the Reds and the Whites

Liberty, Equality and Fraternity for all citizens

Peace, Land, Bread and All Power to the Soviets

Workers of the World, Unite Against Your Masters

For the Motherland and the Tsar

Large foreign armies invaded and did almost all of the fighting on the Reds' behalf

The White generals surrendered almost immediately after war broke out

They held the centre and railways, had the Red Army and faced disunited Whites

They commanded greater popular support than the Whites in every single region

The full nationalisation of every farm across the country

The restoration of the Tsar to the Russian throne

Free multi-party elections to a national assembly

Peasants to sell surplus grain and limited private trade

By controlling the party machine and shifting policy alliances

By winning a sweeping nationwide popular vote of the people

By personally leading the Red Army to victory in the field

By inheriting supreme power directly from Lenin on the day he died

Privatised all Soviet farms and handed them outright to individual peasant owners

Merged peasant farms into state-controlled collectives and attacked the 'kulaks'

Ended the Five Year Plans for heavy industry

Increased private peasant ownership of land

Free and fair trials followed by widespread amnesties

The end of one-party Communist rule

Show trials, purges and the Gulag labour camps

A return to the New Economic Policy

A formal declaration of war on the Western powers

A spirited public defence of the Great Terror

An announcement launching the first of the Five Year Plans

A denunciation of Stalin's crimes and cult of personality

Stability combined with economic stagnation

Sweeping and radical political reform

Rapid and sustained industrial growth

A flourishing liberal multi-party democracy

The wholesale restructuring of the centrally planned Soviet economy

Openness, relaxing censorship and allowing criticism

A major military build-up against the West

The collectivisation of agriculture

It succeeded in fully restoring hardline Stalinism right across the Soviet Union

It greatly strengthened Gorbachev's grip on power afterwards

Its failure discredited the hardliners and hastened the collapse of the USSR

It reunited the Eastern bloc under firm Soviet control once more