Quiz Rise of Totalitarianism.docx

Question 1 1.25 / 1.25 pts What failures of government policy triggered unrest and strikes in Petrograd in 1916? defeat in battle against Austria-Hungary the appointment of Grigory Rasputin as a general the increasing cost of Alexei's medical care food shortages and resulting high prices scandals in the procurement of war material Question 2 1.25 / 1.25 pts What did Lenin argue in his "April Theses?" The Russian peasantry had replaced the proletariat as the revolutionary class because Russia was primarily rural. Wartime chaos had allowed the merger of bourgeois and proletarian revolutions, which could enable a quick transition to Bolshevik rule.

The Bolsheviks should work together with the Mensheviks to continue the war. The proletarian revolution should wait until Russia had a bourgeois revolution. The first step to revolution was the immediate assassination of Russia's royal family. Question 3 1.25 / 1.25 pts How did the "New Economic Policy" of 1921 derivate from socialist orthodoxy? It allowed for a degree of private ownership and market incentives. It called for free trade between Russia and Western Europe. It made military spending a higher priority than other kinds of spending. It instituted the requisitioning of grain from peasant communities. It banned foreign investment in Russia's economy. Question 4 1.25 / 1.25 pts What action started the February Revolution in 1917?

mutinies among soldiers after a defeat by Germany mutinies among sailors frustrated with a lack of rations a call to arms by Vladimir Lenin a general strike of workers in Petrograd Nicholas II's demands for higher taxes to fund the war Question 5 1.25 / 1.25 pts Which foreign power was particularly supportive of White armies in the Russian Civil War? Germany Austria-Hungary Britain France Italy Incorrect

Question 6 0 / 1.25 pts What caused the Socialist Revolutionaries to split with the Bolsheviks in March 1918? Lenin's decision to abandon socialist economic principles the assassination of the royal family Lenin's denunciations of "kulaks" the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk support for Alexander Kerensky against Lenin Question 7 1.25 / 1.25 pts What perspective did the Bolsheviks in Russia have during the early twentieth century? Bolsheviks believed revolution was only possible through democratic means. Bolsheviks saw the peasantry as the revolutionary class. Bolsheviks supported the First World War as a means of increasing Russian power.

Bolsheviks thought only a minority of workers would be politically conscious and that they would have to be led by intellectuals. Bolsheviks insisted that a bourgeois revolution would have to precede the proletarian revolution. Question 8 1.25 / 1.25 pts Who seized power in the Soviet Union following Lenin's death in 1924? Leon Trotsky Joseph Stalin Nikita Khrushchev Leonid Brezhnev Alexander Kerensky Question 9 1.25 / 1.25 pts What was the important political impact of the July Days?

Political lines hardened and Kerensky tried to repress the Bolsheviks. Lenin became the head of the provisional government. The provisional government declared an end to the monarchy. New elections were arranged for October. Lenin had to flee Russia temporarily, leaving Stalin in power. Question 10 1.25 / 1.25 pts Who was the dominant figure in the provisional government? Joseph Stalin Leon Trotsky Nicholas II Vladimir Lenin Alexander Kerensky Question 11

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