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