ThatQuiz Test Library Take this test now
Vladimir Lenin - Test
Contributed by: Miller
  • 1. When was Vladimir Lenin born?
A) 1850
B) 1900
C) 1890
D) 1870
  • 2. Which political ideology was Vladimir Lenin known for promoting?
A) Fascism
B) Communism
C) Socialism
D) Capitalism
  • 3. Which revolution brought Lenin to power in Russia?
A) July Days Revolution
B) February Revolution
C) Kornilov Affair
D) October Revolution
  • 4. Where did Lenin exiled before returning to Russia for the Revolution?
A) Germany
B) France
C) Switzerland
D) Finland
  • 5. Which treaty did Lenin sign to end Russia's involvement in World War I?
A) Treaty of Trianon
B) Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
C) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
D) Treaty of Versailles
  • 6. What was the name of the revolutionary group led by Lenin that seized power in the October Revolution?
A) Social Democrats
B) Bolsheviks
C) Anarchists
D) Mensheviks
  • 7. How old was Lenin when he became the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party?
A) 30
B) 27
C) 21
D) 24
  • 8. Who succeeded Lenin as the leader of the Soviet Union?
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Nikita Khrushchev
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Leon Trotsky
  • 9. Which city did Lenin establish as the first Bolshevik base?
A) Moscow
B) Saint Petersburg
C) Minsk
D) Kiev
  • 10. Lenin's body is embalmed and displayed in which city's Red Square?
A) Kiev
B) Moscow
C) Saint Petersburg
D) Vladivostok
  • 11. In what year did Lenin die?
A) 1917
B) 1924
C) 1933
D) 1945
  • 12. What was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov's nickname as a child?
A) Volodya
B) Sasha
C) Ilya
D) Vova
  • 13. In what year did Lenin's father, Ilya Ulyanov, die?
A) 1886
B) 1893
C) 1887
D) 1879
  • 14. What was the name of Vladimir Lenin's elder brother who was executed for plotting to assassinate Tsar Alexander III?
A) Ilya Ulyanov
B) Dmitry Ulyanov
C) Olga Ulyanova
D) Aleksandr Ulyanov
  • 15. Which university did Lenin initially attend before being expelled?
A) Kazan Imperial University
B) Penza Institute for the Nobility
C) Saint Petersburg University
D) Simbirsk Classical Gymnasium
  • 16. What was Lenin's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova's, religious upbringing?
A) Muslim
B) Jewish
C) Russian Orthodox Church
D) Lutheran
  • 17. Which city did Ilya Ulyanov move to after marrying Maria?
A) Nizhny Novgorod
B) Saint Petersburg
C) Moscow
D) Kazan
  • 18. What was the name of the rural manor where Lenin's family holidayed every summer?
A) Simbirsk
B) Penza
C) Kokushkino
D) Ulyanovsk
  • 19. Which sibling was Vladimir Lenin closest to during his childhood?
A) Dmitry Ulyanov
B) Anna Ulyanova
C) Olga Ulyanova
D) Maria Ulyanova
  • 20. What did Lenin renounce after the death of his father and brother?
A) Chess.
B) Education.
C) His belief in God.
D) Sports.
  • 21. In which year did Lenin enter Kazan University?
A) 1888
B) 1889
C) 1890
D) 1887
  • 22. Who was the militant agrarian socialist that Lenin joined a revolutionary cell with in Kazan?
A) Karl Marx
B) Lazar Bogoraz
C) Nikolay Chernyshevsky
D) Georgi Plekhanov
  • 23. What novel by Nikolay Chernyshevsky did Lenin become enamoured with?
A) The Communist Manifesto
B) What Is to Be Done?
C) The Condition of the Working Class in England
D) Das Kapital
  • 24. Which political pamphlet did Lenin produce a Russian translation of while in Samara?
A) The Communist Manifesto
B) What Is to Be Done?
C) Das Kapital
D) The Condition of the Working Class in England
  • 25. Who convinced Lenin that socialism would be implemented by the proletariat rather than the peasantry?
A) Nikolay Chernyshevsky
B) Karl Marx
C) Lazar Bogoraz
D) Georgi Plekhanov
  • 26. What did Lenin's sister Olga die from during the graduation celebrations?
A) Tuberculosis
B) Cholera
C) Typhoid
D) Influenza
  • 27. What type of journal rejected Lenin's paper on peasant economics?
A) A Marxist journal
B) An agrarian-socialist journal
C) A Narodnik journal
D) A liberal journal
  • 28. Which revolutionary movement did the agrarian-socialists like Pyotr Tkachev and Sergei Nechaev belong to?
A) The Socialist Revolutionaries
B) Narodnaya Volya
C) The Mensheviks
D) The Bolsheviks
  • 29. What was the name of the Marxist revolutionary circle Lenin did not meet in Kazan?
A) Nikolai Fedoseev's Marxist revolutionary circle
B) Georgi Plekhanov's Marxist group
C) Alexei Sklyarenko's socialist discussion circle
D) Lazar Bogoraz's revolutionary cell
  • 30. What was the name of the group Lenin joined while working for a regional court in Samara?
A) Alexei Sklyarenko's socialist discussion circle
B) Nikolai Fedoseev's Marxist revolutionary circle
C) Georgi Plekhanov's Marxist group
D) Lazar Bogoraz's revolutionary cell
  • 31. What was the primary argument of Georgi Plekhanov that Lenin agreed with?
A) Socialism should be established through agrarian-socialist movements.
B) Capitalism was not a necessary stage for implementing socialism.
C) The peasantry could establish socialism in Russia by forming peasant communes.
D) Russia was moving from feudalism to capitalism and socialism would be implemented by the proletariat.
  • 32. What did Lenin's mother do with the country estate she purchased?
A) She donated it to the local community.
B) She sold the land but kept the house as a summer home.
C) She developed it into a large farm.
D) She turned it into a revolutionary meeting place.
  • 33. What was the name of the Marxist revolutionary cell Lenin joined in Saint Petersburg?
A) Emancipation of Labour
B) Bolsheviks
C) Social-Democrats
D) Mensheviks
  • 34. Which city did Lenin travel to after visiting Switzerland?
A) Paris
B) Berlin
C) Moscow
D) Saint Petersburg
  • 35. Where did Lenin study for six weeks upon arriving in Berlin?
A) Marxist Institute
B) University of Berlin
C) Staatsbibliothek
D) Berlin Health Spa
  • 36. What was the name of the news sheet Lenin worked on in Russia?
A) Social-Democrat
B) Rabochee delo (Workers' Cause)
C) Proletarian Revolution
D) Emancipation of Labour
  • 37. How long was Lenin sentenced to exile in eastern Siberia?
A) Two years
B) Five years
C) One year
D) Three years
  • 38. Where was Lenin exiled to in eastern Siberia?
A) Irkutsk
B) Krasnoyarsk
C) Novosibirsk
D) Shushenskoye, Minusinsky District
  • 39. Who joined Lenin in exile in May 1898?
A) Plekhanov
B) Nadezhda Krupskaya
C) Paul Lafargue
D) Elizaveta Vasilyevna
  • 40. Under what pseudonym was The Development of Capitalism in Russia published?
A) Krupskaya
B) Vladimir Ilin
C) Plekhanov
D) Lenin
  • 41. Where did Lenin settle after his exile in early 1900?
A) London
B) Pskov
C) Munich
D) Geneva
  • 42. What was the name of the newspaper that Lenin began raising funds for after settling in Pskov?
A) Vperyod (Forward)
B) Pravda
C) Novaya Zhizn
D) Iskra (Spark)
  • 43. Which pseudonym did Lenin first adopt in December 1901?
A) Lenin
B) N. Lenin
C) Jacob Richter
D) Vladimir Ulyanov
  • 44. In which city was the second RSDLP Congress held in July 1903?
A) St. Petersburg
B) Geneva
C) Munich
D) London
  • 45. Who did Lenin befriend upon moving to London in April 1902?
A) Nadya Krupskaya
B) Alexander Bogdanov
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Julius Martov
  • 46. What illness did Lenin fall ill with in London, affecting his role on the Iskra editorial board?
A) Typhoid fever
B) Pneumonia
C) Erysipelas
D) Tuberculosis
  • 47. Which newspaper did Lenin join as an editorial board member upon returning to Saint Petersburg?
A) Pravda
B) Novaya Zhizn (New Life)
C) Vperyod (Forward)
D) Iskra
  • 48. Who ran the radical legal newspaper Novaya Zhizn?
A) Inessa Armand
B) Nadya Krupskaya
C) Julius Martov
D) Maria Andreyeva
  • 49. Who did Lenin sue in Paris for knocking him off his bike?
A) A motorist
B) A journalist
C) A fellow Bolshevik
D) An Okhrana agent
  • 50. Where was Lenin when the First World War broke out?
A) Russia
B) Berlin
C) Zurich
D) Galicia
  • 51. Where did Lenin relocate to in February 1916?
A) Bern
B) St. Petersburg
C) Vienna
D) Zurich
  • 52. Which party was supporting the German war effort that angered Lenin?
A) German Social Democratic Party
B) Communist Party of Germany
C) Independent Social Democratic Party
D) Socialist Workers' Party of Germany
  • 53. What did Lenin urge socialists to convert the 'imperialist war' into?
A) An economic competition
B) A localized conflict
C) A continent-wide 'civil war'
D) A diplomatic negotiation
  • 54. In what month and year did Lenin publish 'Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism'?
A) February 1915
B) July 1916
C) September 1917
D) April 1916
  • 55. What did Lenin argue was a product of monopoly capitalism in his publication?
A) Feudalism
B) Imperialism
C) Capitalist democracy
D) Socialism
  • 56. What did Lenin believe the proletariat could do without an intermediate revolution?
A) Support the bourgeoisie
B) Overthrow the Tsarist regime
C) Join forces with the aristocracy
D) Establish a capitalist democracy
  • 57. What was Saint Petersburg renamed to at the beginning of World War I?
A) Novgorod
B) Tsaritsyn
C) Leningrad
D) Petrograd
  • 58. What government took control after Tsar Nicholas II's abdication?
A) The Bolshevik Government
B) The Soviet Union
C) The Menshevik Government
D) The Russian Provisional Government
  • 59. What did Lenin and other dissidents do to return to Russia?
A) They traveled by train directly from Switzerland.
B) They negotiated a passage through Germany.
C) They sailed across the Black Sea.
D) They crossed overland via Finland.
  • 60. Where did Lenin give his speech upon arriving in Petrograd?
A) Tauride Palace
B) Finland Station
C) Red Square
D) Kremlin Palace
  • 61. What did Lenin criticize the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries for?
A) Advocating for monarchy restoration.
B) Promoting capitalist reforms.
C) Opposing industrialization.
D) Supporting the Provisional Government.
  • 62. Where did Lenin relocate after escaping Petrograd?
A) Kiev
B) Moscow
C) Razliv
D) Odessa
  • 63. What did the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries lose due to their affiliation with the Provisional Government?
A) Control of Petrograd
B) Popular support
C) Military power
D) Political influence in Europe
  • 64. What percentage of the vote did the Bolsheviks gain in the November 1917 election for the Russian Constituent Assembly?
A) About a quarter
B) A majority
C) Less than ten percent
D) Half
  • 65. Which party did the Bolsheviks lose to in the November 1917 election for the Russian Constituent Assembly?
A) The Kadets
B) The Left Socialist-Revolutionaries
C) The Socialist-Revolutionaries
D) The Mensheviks
  • 66. When did the coalition between Sovnarkom and the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries end?
A) March 1918
B) November 1918
C) January 1919
D) December 1917
  • 67. Who was Lenin's right-hand man who died in March 1919?
A) Grigory Zinoviev
B) Yakov Sverdlov
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Joseph Stalin
  • 68. Where did Lenin and his wife take a two-room flat in November 1917?
A) A private residence in Petrograd
B) Halila, Finland
C) The Smolny Institute
D) Kremlin
  • 69. What did the Decree on the Press entail?
A) It closed opposition media outlets deemed counter-revolutionary.
B) It granted non-Russian ethnic groups the right to secede.
C) It abolished Russia's legal system.
D) It established state orphanages.
  • 70. Which calendar did Lenin's government switch to in order to align with Europe?
A) The Julian calendar.
B) The Hebrew calendar.
C) The Gregorian calendar.
D) The Islamic calendar.
  • 71. What measure did Lenin decree in October 1917 regarding work hours?
A) An eight-hour workday for all Russians.
B) A six-hour workday for agricultural laborers.
C) Flexible working hours based on industry.
D) A ten-hour workday for industrial workers.
  • 72. What was the focus of Lenin's Decree on Popular Education?
A) Implementing a national curriculum based on Marxism.
B) Establishing military training in schools.
C) Guaranteeing free, secular education for all children.
D) Promoting religious instruction in schools.
  • 73. What was the Soviet Union's stance on first-trimester abortion under Lenin?
A) It allowed abortion only in cases of medical necessity.
B) It banned all forms of abortion.
C) It restricted abortion to married women.
D) It legalized first-trimester abortion on demand.
  • 74. Which Marxist criticized the Bolshevik seizure of power as 'the burial of the Russian Revolution'?
A) Joseph Stalin.
B) Peter Kropotkin.
C) Vladimir Lenin.
D) Karl Marx.
  • 75. What was Lenin's position on centralized economic control?
A) He advocated for syndicalist approaches.
B) He supported complete decentralization of the economy.
C) He argued for centralized economic control rather than factory-level worker control.
D) He opposed any form of economic planning.
  • 76. What did Germany insist on during the Brest-Litovsk negotiations?
A) immediate peace without territorial changes
B) returning all occupied territories to Russia
C) Russia's withdrawal from World War I
D) keeping their wartime conquests
  • 77. What was the result of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk for Russia?
A) partial control over Germany
B) massive territorial losses
C) significant territorial gains
D) no change in territory
  • 78. Who led the Cheka, the political police force established by Lenin?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Felix Dzerzhinsky
C) Nikolai Bukharin
D) Leon Trotsky
  • 79. Who did Lenin order to be executed in May 1922?
A) anti-Bolshevik priests
B) all members of the Russian Orthodox Church
C) peasants resisting grain requisitioning
D) members of the Cheka
  • 80. Which group supported the White armies with 35,000 members?
A) Japanese forces
B) Czech Legion
C) Former Tsarist officers
D) Red Army
  • 81. Who opposed the sale of items used within the Eucharist during the famine?
A) Patriarch Tikhon
B) Lenin
C) The Workers' Opposition
D) Trotsky
  • 82. What was one of the significant anti-Bolshevik peasant uprisings?
A) The Petrograd Uprising
B) The Kronstadt Rebellion
C) The Tambov Rebellion
D) The Moscow Revolt
  • 83. In what year did Vladimir Lenin celebrate his 50th birthday?
A) 1920
B) 1922
C) 1918
D) 1923
  • 84. Which Western author visited Lenin in Russia between 1920 and 1926?
A) H. G. Wells
B) George Orwell
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 85. What illness did Inessa Armand suffer from that led to her death in 1920?
A) Influenza
B) Typhoid fever
C) Cholera
D) Tuberculosis
  • 86. Where did Lenin send Inessa Armand to recover in 1920?
A) Kislovodsk sanatorium
B) St. Petersburg clinic
C) Leningrad resort
D) Moscow hospital
  • 87. What did Lenin ask Krupskaya and Stalin to acquire for him?
A) Morphine
B) Aspirin
C) Herbal remedies
D) Potassium cyanide
  • 88. How many physicians were hired to help Lenin during his final years?
A) Ten
B) Twenty-six
C) Fifteen
D) Thirty
  • 89. When did Lenin have his first stroke?
A) May 1922
B) July 1921
C) January 1923
D) December 1922
  • 90. Who visited Lenin at his Gorki mansion on the day of his death?
A) Stalin
B) Trotsky
C) Bukharin
D) Kalinin
  • 91. How many mourners visited Lenin's body during the three days it lay in state?
A) A few thousand
B) About half a million
C) Around a million
D) Over two million
  • 92. Where was Lenin's body displayed after his death?
A) Gorki mansion
B) Kremlin
C) House of Trade Unions
D) Red Square mausoleum
  • 93. Who protested against the decision to embalm Lenin's body?
A) Bukharin
B) Krupsakaya
C) Stalin
D) Zinoviev
  • 94. When was the permanent granite mausoleum for Lenin completed?
A) 1929
B) 1940
C) 1970
D) 1933
  • 95. During which war was Lenin's body temporarily moved to Tyumen?
A) First World War
B) Korean War
C) Second World War
D) Cold War
  • 96. Who said that Lenin managed profoundly to change a large society on such a scale?
A) John Rees
B) Albert Resis
C) Volkogonov
D) Richard Pipes
  • 97. Which biographer portrayed Lenin as making a genuine adjustment of Marxist theory for Russia?
A) Christopher Hill
B) Robert Gellately
C) Paul Le Blanc
D) Richard Pipes
  • 98. Which historian argued that Lenin's government was not totalitarian?
A) Moshe Lewin
B) Robert Gellately
C) Volkogonov
D) Richard Pipes
  • 99. Who argued that revolutionary violence for Lenin was a means to an end?
A) Ryan
B) Volkogonov
C) John Rees
D) Richard Pipes
  • 100. Which historian credited Lenin with the notion that the meek can inherit the earth?
A) Paul Le Blanc
B) Albert Resis
C) Moshe Lewin
D) J. Arch Getty
Created with That Quiz — the site for test creation and grading in math and other subjects.