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CCEA GCSE History Russia 1914 to 1941 quiz

15questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Why was the war increasingly blamed on the Tsar after 1915?

  2. What was the decisive moment in the February Revolution of 1917?

  3. What was 'dual power' after the February Revolution?

  4. What were the Bolsheviks' two main slogans in 1917?

  5. Who organised the Red Guards and the seizure of Petrograd in October 1917?

  6. Why did the Bolsheviks sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918?

  7. Why did the Bolshevik Reds win the Civil War?

  8. What was War Communism?

  9. Why did Lenin introduce the New Economic Policy in 1921?

  10. What post gave Stalin his key advantage over Trotsky?

  11. What were the Five-Year Plans designed to achieve?

  12. What was collectivisation?

  13. Where was the famine caused by collectivisation worst in 1932 to 1933?

  14. What were the Great Purges of the 1930s?

  15. What was the cult of personality around Stalin?