Starter quiz
- Write the missing word. A ______ war is a conflict between people from the same country.
- 'civil' ✓
- Which of the following actions was taken by the Provisional Government?
- ending Russian involvement in WWI
- executing the Tsar and his family
- planning future elections ✓
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- Write the missing word. The Red Terror was led by the ...
- 'Cheka' ✓
- What did the Greens fight for during the Russian Civil War?
- to take the Russian Empire back into WWI
- to prevent the spread of communism in the Russian Empire
- to gain independence from the Russian Empire ✓
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- Which example best shows that ordinary Russians were negatively affected by the Russian Civil War?
- foreign powers like Britain intervened
- Russia lost control over areas like Estonia
- War Communism led to grain requisitioning ✓
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔WWI begins
- 2⇔Tsar Nicholas II overthrown
- 3⇔Provisional Government overthrown
- 4⇔Russian Civil War begins
- 5⇔Reds defeat the Whites
Exit quiz
- Match up each of the keywords with the correct definitions.
- purge⇔getting rid of people you disagree with, often using force ✓
- dictatorship⇔a country where the ruler has absolute power ✓
- exile⇔when people are sent or kept away from their country ✓
- absolute power⇔situation where a leader can act as they wish without limits ✓
- tsar⇔Russian word for emperor ✓
- Write the missing word. After Lenin's death, the USSR was led by Joseph ...
- 'Stalin' ✓
- What happened to the number of tractors in the USSR as a result of Stalin's economic policies?
- number of tractors rose from 7000 to 14 000
- number of tractors rose from 7000 to 120 000 ✓
- number of tractors fell from 120 000 to 7000
- number of tractors fell from 14 000 to 7000
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- Who was responsible for carrying out the purges in the 1930s?
- Provisional Government
- Red Army
- Soviet secret police ✓
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- Which statement is accurate?
- The USSR had a larger industrial economy than the USA by 1939
- The USSR had a larger industrial economy than Germany but not Britain by 1939
- The USSR had a larger industrial economy than Britain but not Germany by 1939
- The USSR had a larger industrial economy than both Germany and Britain by 1939 ✓
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔Stalin becomes leader of the USSR
- 2⇔Collectivisation of agriculture begins
- 3⇔A famine kills 10 000 000 people in the Soviet Union
- 4⇔93% of Soviet farms were collectivised
- 5⇔Soviet agricultural production reached the same levels as reached in 1914
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Key learning points
- In 1922, the Soviet Union (USSR) was established as a single party dictatorship.
- Stalin became leader of the USSR after Lenin's death. Stalin used the secret police to purge those who opposed him.
- Stalin attempted to modernise the Soviet economy through collectivisation and rapid industrialisation.
- Collectivisation increased the food supplies secured by the Soviet state but led to lower levels of agricultural output.
- The USSR became the second largest industrial economy in the world but the quality of its output remained poor.
Common misconception
Changes in the leadership of Russia led to complete change in the country's politics.
Both tsarist rule and Communist rule led to severe restrictions on political freedoms, including use of secret police to remove opposition.
Keywords
Dictatorship - a dictatorship is a country where the leaders have absolute power
Purge - a purge involves getting rid of people who do not agree with you
Gulag - a gulag was part of a system of work prisons set up in the USSR
Industrialisation - the process of developing a country's manufacturing industries is known as industrialisation
Collectivisation - collectivisation was a policy which reorganised Soviet agriculture to work as a system of large, modernised farms
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