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