- 1. When did the Russian Revolution begin?
A) 1905
B) 1920
C) 1941
D) 1917
- 2. Who led the Bolshevik Party during the October Revolution?
A) Nicholas II
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Vladimir Lenin
- 3. Which slogan was popularized by the Bolsheviks during the revolution?
A) Peace, Land, Bread
B) Workers of the World, Unite
C) Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
D) Power to the People
- 4. What was the name of the Bolshevik secret police under Lenin's rule?
A) NKVD
B) Cheka
C) FBI
D) KGB
- 5. Which treaty ended Russia's participation in World War I?
A) Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
B) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
C) Treaty of Trianon
D) Treaty of Versailles
- 6. Who was the last tsar of Russia before the revolution?
A) Alexander II
B) Nicholas II
C) Alexander III
D) Kaiser Wilhelm II
- 7. Which party emerged as the primary ruling authority in Russia after the revolution?
A) Menshevik Party
B) White Party
C) Bolshevik Party
D) Kadet Party
- 8. What was the name of the provisional government established after the February Revolution?
A) Soviet of Workers' Deputies
B) Provisional Council of Ministers
C) State Duma
D) Russian Provisional Government
- 9. Who coined the term 'dictatorship of the proletariat'?
A) Karl Marx
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Joseph Stalin
- 10. Which political ideology played a significant role in the Russian Revolution?
A) Libertarianism
B) Marxism
C) Fascism
D) Conservatism
- 11. Who was the leader of the Menshevik Party during the revolution?
A) Viktor Chernov
B) Leon Trotsky
C) Georgy Plekhanov
D) Julius Martov
- 12. Who was the leader of the Red Army during the Civil War?
A) Lavrentiy Beria
B) Nikolai Bukharin
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Joseph Stalin
- 13. What did the Bolsheviks rename themselves during the revolution?
A) Communist Party
B) Peasant Party
C) Socialist Party
D) Workers' Party
- 14. Which city served as the capital of Russia during the revolution?
A) Stalingrad
B) Moscow
C) Petrograd
D) Kiev
- 15. What was the name given to the armed workers' councils that emerged during the revolution?
A) Soviets
B) Dumas
C) Zemstvos
D) Okhrana
- 16. Who was the leading political figure of the White movement during the Civil War?
A) Boris Savinkov
B) Anton Denikin
C) Alexander Kolchak
D) Pavel Milyukov
- 17. Which Bolshevik leader established the first concentration camps during the civil war?
A) Felix Dzerzhinsky
B) Vyacheslav Molotov
C) Georgy Malenkov
D) Andrei Vyshinsky
- 18. Who was the leading Bolshevik after Lenin's death?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Grigory Zinoviev
C) Nikolai Bukharin
D) Leon Trotsky
- 19. What was the official ideology of the Soviet Union during Stalin's rule?
A) Marxism-Leninism
B) Trotskyism
C) Stalinism
D) Maoism
- 20. What was the Red Army's opponent in the Russian Civil War that followed the Revolution?
A) Blue Army
B) Black Army
C) White Army
D) Green Army
- 21. Which event marked the overthrow of the provisional government in Russia?
A) October Revolution
B) Bolshevik Coup
C) Kronstadt Rebellion
D) February Revolution
- 22. Which famous battleship mutiny occurred in 1905, sparking unrest leading to the Revolution?
A) Aurora
B) Red October
C) Potemkin
D) Baltic Fleet
- 23. What famous prison was stormed during the October Revolution?
A) Peter and Paul Fortress
B) Tower of London
C) Winter Palace
D) Alcatraz
- 24. Which event directly preceded the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917?
A) Petrograd Massacre
B) Bolshevik Coup
C) October Revolution
D) February Revolution
- 25. Where was the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family executed in 1918?
A) Moscow
B) Yekaterinburg
C) Stalingrad
D) Leningrad
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