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A) 1900 B) 1870 C) 1920 D) 1850
A) Sergei Petrov B) Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov C) Ivan Romanov D) Alexander Ivanov
A) 1917 B) 1935 C) 1945 D) 1924
A) London B) St. Petersburg C) Zurich D) Moscow
A) Communist Manifesto B) Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism C) State and Revolution D) Das Kapital
A) Japan B) Germany C) United States D) France
A) Alexander III B) Peter the Great C) Nicholas II D) Ivan the Terrible
A) Italy B) France C) Switzerland D) United Kingdom
A) Communist Party of Russia B) Menshevik Party C) Democratic Socialist Party D) Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
A) St. Petersburg B) Novosibirsk C) Red Square, Moscow D) Kazan
A) Nikita Khrushchev B) Leon Trotsky C) Mikhail Gorbachev D) Joseph Stalin
A) Marxism-Leninism B) Capitalism C) Fascism D) Anarchism
A) Elena Romanova B) Olga Petrov C) Nadezhda Krupskaya D) Maria Ivanova
A) A nearby flat B) An apartment in the city center C) A university dormitory D) His family's estate
A) A Marxist study group B) The militant agrarian socialist Lazar Bogoraz's cell C) Nikolay Chernyshevsky's group D) A Narodnik movement
A) What Is to Be Done? B) The Communist Manifesto C) Das Kapital D) The Wealth of Nations
A) Nikolai Fedoseev B) Lenin's mother C) Alexei Sklyarenko D) Lazar Bogoraz
A) Nikolai Fedoseev's Marxist revolutionary circle B) A zemlyachestvo society C) Alexei Sklyarenko's socialist discussion circle D) Lazar Bogoraz's cell
A) Samara B) Moscow C) St Petersburg D) Kazan
A) Lenin's mother B) Alexei Sklyarenko C) Nikolai Fedoseev D) Maria Ulyanova
A) Lawyer B) Legal assistant for a regional court C) University professor D) Journalist
A) The Communist Manifesto B) The Wealth of Nations C) Das Kapital D) What Is to Be Done?
A) Friedrich Engels B) Georgi Plekhanov C) Nikolay Chernyshevsky D) Karl Marx
A) Peasant economics B) The history of Narodnaya Volya C) Urban working class struggles D) Marxist theory
A) Berlin B) Moscow C) Saint Petersburg D) Paris
A) Junior member B) Observer C) Founder D) Senior position
A) Karl Kautsky B) Friedrich Engels C) Wilhelm Liebknecht D) Paul Lafargue
A) Saint Petersburg at the Russian National Library B) Berlin at the Staatsbibliothek C) Paris at the Bibliothèque nationale de France D) Geneva at the University of Geneva
A) Pravda B) Vperyod C) Rabochee delo (Workers' Cause) D) Iskra
A) One year B) Three years C) Five years D) Two years
A) Vladivostok B) Moscow C) Saint Petersburg D) Shushenskoye, Minusinsky District
A) Munich B) Pskov C) Geneva D) London
A) Novaya Zhizn B) Vperyod (Forward) C) Iskra (Spark) D) Proletari
A) Nikolai B) Lenin C) Jacob Richter D) N. Lenin
A) Geneva B) St. Petersburg C) Munich D) London
A) To the Village Poor B) Materialism and Empirio-criticism C) One Step Forward, Two Steps Back D) Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
A) Kronstadt Rebellion B) Bloody Sunday massacre C) October Manifesto D) Tiflis Bank Robbery
A) Materialism and Empirio-criticism B) What Is to Be Done? C) To the Village Poor D) Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
A) Munich B) London C) Geneva D) Paris
A) Lost all territory to Poland B) Reduced as non-Russian ethnic groups sought national independence C) Maintained the same borders as before the Civil War D) Expanded significantly into Europe
A) House of Trade Unions B) The Kremlin C) Red Square D) His Gorki home
A) Menshevism B) Anarchism C) Liberalism D) Social Democracy
A) An oligarchy B) A capitalist democracy C) A stateless, classless, egalitarian society D) A monarchy
A) He believed it was necessary. B) He supported a coalition with the Mensheviks. C) He opposed it in favor of independent expression. D) He thought it should be led by the peasantry.
A) Felix Dzerzhinsky B) Grigory Zinoviev C) Joseph Stalin D) Leon Trotsky
A) Maria Andreyeva B) Nadya C) Julia Martov D) Inessa Armand
A) 80% B) 50% C) 30% D) 67%
A) Lars Lih B) Moshe Lewin C) Robert Gellately D) Richard Pipes
A) May 1925 B) October 1923 C) January 1924 D) July 1929
A) An apartment in Moscow B) A private residence in Petrograd C) The Smolny Institute D) The Kremlin
A) 27 October 1917 B) 24 October 1917 C) 10 October 1917 D) 26 October 1917
A) The cruiser Aurora fired a blank shot. B) Trotsky's announcement. C) A speech by Lenin. D) A bomb explosion in Petrograd.
A) Tyumen B) Stalingrad C) Kazan D) Moscow
A) The proletariat could overthrow the Tsarist regime without an intermediate bourgeoisie-democratic revolution B) No revolution was necessary C) A bourgeois-democratic revolution was necessary before a socialist one D) Only a democratic revolution was needed
A) Half B) About a quarter C) Less than ten percent D) A majority
A) April Theses B) October Manifesto C) Decree on Land D) Communist Manifesto
A) Leon Trotsky B) Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko C) Yakov Sverdlov D) Fritz Platten
A) Christopher Hill B) Robert Gellately C) Richard Pipes D) Lars Lih
A) Seven B) Five C) Two D) Three
A) Volkogonov B) White C) Albert Resis D) Richard Pipes
A) Kienthal resolution B) Stuttgart resolution C) Brest-Litovsk resolution D) Zimmerwald resolution
A) Joining forces with the Mensheviks. B) A Bolshevik-led armed insurrection. C) Establishing a new provisional government. D) Negotiating peace with Germany.
A) Vladimir Lenin B) Alexander Kerensky C) Leon Trotsky D) Lavr Kornilov
A) Alzheimer's disease B) Brain tumor C) Severe sclerosis D) Parkinson's disease
A) Relying solely on membership fees. B) Robbing post offices, railway stations, trains, and banks. C) Seeking donations from European Marxists. D) Applying for government grants.
A) Novgorod B) Moscow C) Petrograd D) Leningrad
A) In December 1901 B) During his time in London C) While publishing Iskra in Munich D) At the second RSDLP Congress in 1903
A) 25% B) 50% C) 45% D) 37%
A) Morphine B) Aspirin C) Potassium cyanide D) Herbal remedies
A) The Armistice on the Western Front B) The Russian Civil War C) The Treaty of Versailles D) The Bolshevik Revolution
A) Its efficiency B) Its leadership C) Its bureaucratic nature D) Its size
A) Stalin's administration B) Mao Zedong C) Fidel Castro D) Ho Chi Minh
A) Zinoviev B) Bukharin C) Trotsky D) Lenin
A) March 1918 B) December 1917 C) January 1919 D) November 1918
A) Monarchies B) Democratic governments C) Capitalist economies D) Communist-led states
A) Tauride Palace B) Red Square C) Kremlin Palace D) Finland Station
A) The Petrograd Strike. B) The Kronstadt Uprising. C) The Tambov Rebellion. D) The Moscow Revolt.
A) Richard Pipes B) John Rees C) Albert Resis D) Volkogonov
A) November 1917 B) August 1918 C) January 1918 D) March 1918
A) Over 10,000 B) Exactly 7,000 C) Approximately 6,000 D) Less than 3,000
A) Helsinki B) Moscow C) St. Petersburg D) Riga
A) 1940 B) 1967 C) 1933 D) 1970
A) Tens of thousands B) Around a million C) Over two million D) A few hundred thousand
A) Estonia B) Germany C) Hungary D) Latvia
A) Yakov Sverdlov B) Leon Trotsky C) Fritz Platten D) Joseph Stalin
A) Mikhail Gorbachev B) Nikita Khrushchev C) Joseph Stalin D) Leonid Brezhnev
A) Convert the imperialist war into a continent-wide civil war B) Negotiate peace treaties C) Focus on economic reforms D) Support their respective national governments
A) Trotsky B) Martov C) Karl Marx D) Stalin
A) Economically driven B) Secular C) Military-focused D) Quasi-religious
A) They promoted true equality among citizens B) They were fraudulent because they did not free laborers from capitalist exploitation C) They ensured freedom for all classes D) They were sufficient for achieving socialism
A) Support from Western governments B) Control over Moscow and Petrograd C) Use of former Tsarist officers D) Antisemitism
A) Proletari B) Iskra C) Novaya Zhizn (New Life) D) Vperyod
A) Exactly 5,000 B) Under 1,000 C) Over 6,000 D) Approximately 10,000
A) The German Social Democratic Party B) The Left Socialist-Revolutionaries C) The Mensheviks D) The agrarian-focused Socialist-Revolutionaries
A) Advisory member B) Vice-chairman C) Minister of Foreign Affairs D) Elected chairman
A) Exile B) A public trial C) Their execution D) Their release
A) Maoism B) Juche C) Marxism–Leninism D) Stalinism
A) Fifty B) Ten C) Twenty-six D) Thirty
A) Zurich B) Moscow C) Galicia D) Stuttgart |