2N Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–1929: Practice Questions

• a.

  The joint rule of Tsar Nicholas II and the Duma prior to the Tsar's abdication in March.

• b.

  The administrative division of Russia between the Red Army and the White Army during the Civil War.

• c.

  The power-sharing arrangement between the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

• d.

  The coalition between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks to manage the Russian war effort.

• a.Resigning his post as General Secretary to lead the Red Army against internal dissidents
• b.Publishing Lenin’s Testament immediately to prove his own loyalty to the party
• c.Forming a triumvirate with Zinoviev and Kamenev to isolate Trotsky, then later siding with the Right to remove them
• d.Openly supporting the immediate abolition of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1924

• a.

  The overwhelming success of the NEP, which had already achieved all the production targets of the 1913 Tsarist economy.

• b.

  The advice of Nikolai Bukharin, who argued that the peasantry should be treated as the primary engine of socialist growth.

• c.

  The immediate threat of an invasion by the United Kingdom following the publication of the 'Zinoviev Letter'.

• d.

  The grain procurement crisis of 1927–1928, which suggested that the NEP was failing to provide the food supplies necessary for urban growth.

• a.

  To fund the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union through the forced collectivization of all agricultural land.

• b.

  To encourage foreign investment by returning large-scale heavy industries and banks to their former private owners.

• c.

  To stabilize the economy by reintroducing a limited version of capitalism, such as allowing peasants to sell surplus grain for profit.

• d.

  To eliminate all private trade and move immediately toward a fully centralized command economy under Vesenkha.

Write your answer out first, then check it against the worked solution.

Write your answer out first, then check it against the worked solution.

Write your answer out first, then check it against the worked solution.

Write your answer out first, then check it against the worked solution.