Lesson 2C.2.4
2C.2.4 Defending the Bolshevik Revolution, October 1917–24 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 3
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The 20 questions
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Which treaty formally ended Russia's involvement in the First World War in March 1918?
- Treaty of Riga
- Treaty of Rapallo
- Treaty of Versailles
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Who was appointed as the first leader of the Cheka in December 1917?
- Felix Dzerzhinsky
- Nikolai Bukharin
- Leon Trotsky
- Joseph Stalin
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What key agricultural measure defined the Bolshevik economic policy of War Communism?
- Voluntary grain sales
- Free trade
- Grain tax
- Grain requisitioning
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What replaced forced grain requisitioning under the New Economic Policy in 1921?
- Tax in kind
- Factory committees
- Collective farming
- State procurement
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Which military group revolted against Bolshevik rule at Kronstadt in March 1921?
- White officers
- Baltic sailors
- Red Guards
- Cossack cavalry
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Who led the 1920–21 peasant uprising against Bolshevik grain requisitioning in Tambov?
- Alexander Antonov
- Alexander Kolchak
- Nestor Makhno
- Lavr Kornilov
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Which Communist Party congress introduced the ban on factions in March 1921?
- Tenth Party Congress
- Seventh Party Congress
- Eighth Party Congress
- Twelfth Party Congress
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What key geographical advantage helped the Red Army defeat the Whites in the Civil War?
- Foreign army support
- Control of ports
- Control of railways
- Siberian oil fields
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What official military role did Leon Trotsky hold during the Russian Civil War?
- Foreign Affairs Commissar
- Commissar for War
- General Secretary
- Cheka Director
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What main factor contributed to the failure of foreign intervention against the Bolsheviks?
- German military aid
- Total military defeat
- Uncoordinated military goals
- Lack of troops
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Which event in August 1918 served as the immediate trigger for the Red Terror?
- Kronstadt naval mutiny
- Execution of Tsar
- Tambov peasant uprising
- Lenin assassination attempt
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What policy under War Communism caused widespread peasant anger and armed resistance?
- Grain requisitioning
- Factory control
- Bank nationalisation
- Land redistribution
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What replaced compulsory grain requisitioning when the NEP was introduced in 1921?
- Collective farming
- Total free trade
- Tax in kind
- State grain monopoly
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Which March 1921 uprising directly convinced Lenin to introduce the New Economic Policy?
- Kronstadt Mutiny
- Kornilov Affair
- July Days
- Tambov Rising
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Which 1921 peace treaty formally concluded the Polish-Soviet War?
- Treaty of Rapallo
- Treaty of Riga
- Treaty of Versailles
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Which White Army commander led the southern offensive against the Bolsheviks?
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky
- Felix Dzerzhinsky
- Anton Denikin
- Alexander Kerensky
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Which state security organisation was responsible for carrying out the Red Terror?
- The Bolsheviks
- The NKVD
- The Okhrana
- The Cheka
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What term did Lenin use to describe the adoption of the New Economic Policy?
- Tactical compromise
- Permanent revolution
- Socialist victory
- Cultural shift
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Which nation did Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with in 1918?
- Great Britain
- Germany
- Austria-Hungary
- France
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Which policy was introduced at the Tenth Party Congress to end internal division?
- Democratic centralism
- War Communism
- Ban on factions
- Dictatorship of proletariat
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