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