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Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Lenin
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Lenin's Youth
The Young Revolutionary
The Emergence of the Bolsheviks
The 1905 Revolution and its Aftermath
Toward Revolution
From March to October
Civil War
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1. Where was Lenin born?
Switzerland
St. Petersburg
Simbirsk
Georgia
2. What was Lenin's father's profession?
Lawyer
Inspector of schools
Revolutionary
Professor
3. What was Lenin's older brother's name?
Ilya
Alexander
Vladimir
Nicholas
4. Whom was Lenin's brother accused of trying to assassinate?
Nicholas II
George III
Rasputin
Alexander III
5. Lenin received a degree from St. Petersburg in what field?
Medicine
Law
Political Science
Economics
6. What was the name of the first Russian Marxist party?
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Communist Party
The Russian Social Marxist Party
The National Socialist Party
7. What was Lenin's wife named?
Svetlana Krupskana
Nadezhda Armand
Inessa Armand
Nadezhda Krupskaya
8. Where were Lenin and his wife married?
St. Petersburg
Paris
Switzerland
Siberia
9. What was the name of the paper that Lenin worked on from 1900-1903?
Pravda
The Revolutionary
Das Kapital
Iskra
10. What is the English translation of this paper's name?
"Truth"
"Revolution"
"Proletariat"
"The Spark"
11. In 1903, the Russian Marxists split into two factions. What were the names of these?
Bolsheviks and Social Democrats
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
Bolsheviks and Socialists
Mensheviks and Leninists
12. What group did Lenin lead?
Bolsheviks
Socialists
Christian Democrats
Mensheviks
13. What was the name of the opposing party's leader?
Stalin
Martov
Trotsky
Plekhanov
14. With what country did Russia go to war in 1904?
Japan
Germany
Britain
Turkey
15. In order to end the 1905 Revolution, Nicholas II was forced to do what?
Allow for the formation of an elected "Duma"
Abdicate
Share power with the Bolsheviks
Invade Germany
16. Where did Lenin live primarily in the years before World War I?
St. Petersburg
Western Europe
Georgia
America
17. The school that Lenin opened outside Paris was run with the help of whom?
Krupskaya and Martov
Stalin and Trotsky
Krupskaya and Inessa Armand
Trotsky and Inessa Armand
18. Where was Lenin living when World War I broke out?
St. Petersburg
London
Poland
France
19. When did World War I begin?
August 1918
September 1916
August 1914
November 1917
20. Who was Russia's chief antagonist in the war?
Britain
America
Germany
Japan
21. When did the Nicholas II abdicate and the Russian Revolution begin?
May 1915
March 1917
November 1917
January 1920
22. What institution replaced the Tsar's administration?
The Constituent Assembly
The Provisional Government
The Politburo
The Moscow Soviet
23. Who was the leader of the Provisional Government in autumn of 1917?
Kerensky
Lenin
Trotsky
Kornilov
24. Who sent Lenin back to Russia from Switzerland in a sealed train?
The Germans
The Swiss
The English
The French
25. When did the Bolsheviks seize power?
May 1917
November 1917
November 1919
August 1914
26. What action by the Bolsheviks ended the war with Germany?
Their victory in the battle of Tannenberg
Their surrendering
Their defeat in the battle of Stalingrad
Their signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
27. What was the Bolshevik stance toward the Constituent Assembly?
They recognized it but did not actively aid it in its activities
They objected to it and broke it up
They recognized it and supported it, only to undermine it from within
They lobbied for the Russian people to vote for its demise
28. In the ensuing civil war, the opposition to the Bolsheviks were known as what?
The Reds
The Loyalists
The Monarchists
The Whites
29. Who supported the Bolsheviks' opposition in the civil war?
Britain, France, and the United States
Germany and Austria
China
Turkey
30. What was the fate of Nicholas II and his family?
They became Marxists
They fled to Germany
They were all shot by the Bolsheviks
They fled to Britain
31. Who organized the Red Army?
Stalin
Lenin
Trotsky
Martov
32. Who were the "kulaks" in Lenin's rhetoric?
Wealthy peasants
Red soldiers
Bolshevik supporters
White soldiers
33. Lenin's campaign against the peasantry was called what?
The Great Terror
The Red Terror
The Great Leap Forward
The New Economic Plan (N.E.P.)
34. What was the name of the woman who nearly assassinated Lenin in 1918?
Fanya Kaplan
Anna Karenina
Kristin Lavransdottir
Inessa Armand
35. In what year did World War I end?
1916
1922
1914
1918
36. Who invaded Russia in May 1920?
Poland
Germany
Austria
Japan
37. How many deaths (approximately) did the famine of 1921 cause in Russia?
10,000,000
5,000,000
50,000
1,000,000
38. What did the White forces in Russia do in winter of 1920?
They launched a last-ditch assault on Moscow
They suffered a defeat and were evacuated across the Black Sea
They swore allegiance to the Bolsheviks
They retreated into Germany
39. What did Lenin do in response to the Kronstadt Mutiny?
He ordered the beginning of the Red Terror
He initiated the Five Year Plan
He ordered Stalin arrested
He put the New Economic Policy into effect
40. In what year did Inessa Armand die?
1917
1920
1924
1914
41. What did the Bolsheviks rename themselves in 1922?
The Social Democrats
The Communist Party
The Socialist Party
The Mensheviks
42. What was the name of Bolshevik-ruled Russia?
The Russian Federation
The Russian Republic
The Soviet Union
The United States of Russia
43. The inner circle of Bolsheviks was known as what?
The Communist Committee
The Cabinet
The Politburo
The Comintern
44. When did Lenin suffer his first stroke?
1920
1924
1922
1914
45. As Lenin neared death, a rivalry developed between which two people?
Stalin and Trotsky
Stalin and Kamenev
Trotsky and Bukharin
Stalin and Krupskaya
46. In his Testament, Lenin warned against the increasing power of which person?
Stalin
Trotsky
Krupskaya
Kamenev
47. When did Lenin die?
January 1922
January 1924
March 1925
September 1922
48. Who gradually took over control of the Soviet Union after Lenin died?
Trotsky
Zinoviev
Kamenev
Stalin
49. After his death, what happened to Lenin's body?
It was embalmed and placed in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
It was buried in his birthplace, Simbirsk
It was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square
It was cremated, and his ashes scattered
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