Bolshevik Ideology
What is the definition of 'proletariat'?
The working class, people that sell their labour for a living, do not own the means of production
Issued by the Petrograd Soviet on 14 March 1917, this order stripped officers of authority and tied soldiers' loyalty to the Soviet rather than the Provisional Government.
What is Order No. 1?
Signed in March 1918, this treaty took Russia out of World War I at the cost of huge territory, population and resources. When was the Bolshevik revolution?
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Who am I?
I attended a New Zealand for Water Polo in 2024.
Am I Beau Boetcher?
This 1921 uprising, combined with widespread peasant revolts, convinced Lenin that War Communism had to end.
What is the Kronstadt Revolt?
This is the date Lenin died after suffering a final stroke.
What is 21 January 1924?
Historian Isaac Deutscher used this dismissive phrase to describe how Stalin was viewed at the time of Lenin's death
What is "a grey blur"?
The final, classless and stateless stage of Marx's theory of historical development.
What is communism?
This term describes the situation from March 1917 where the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet operated side by side, undermining stable government.
What is Dual Power?
This name was given to the Bolsheviks' Civil War opponents — a mix of monarchists, liberals, and disgruntled socialists.
What are the Whites?
Who am I?
I won the CHS Rugby Championship in 2026
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This nickname was given to private traders who grew wealthy buying and reselling surplus goods under the New Economic Policy
What are "NEP men"?
Read to the Central Committee in May 1924, this document harshly criticised Stalin and called for his removal from power.
What is Lenin's Last Will and Testament?
Appointed in 1922, this bureaucratic position gave Stalin control over party promotions, demotions and appointments
What is General Secretary?
This term describes Marx's belief that history is driven by unstoppable economic forces, meaning individuals can influence events but never change history's general pattern.
What is a determinist (determinism)?
Lenin's April 1917 document, calling for a Russia ruled by soviets rather than a parliament.
What are the April Theses?
This group of former prisoners of war became a significant, well-organised fighting force against the Bolsheviks during the Civil War.
What is the Czech Legion?
Who am I?
I won a Grand Final for Nova in 2026.
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Highlighted by Trotsky at the 1923 Party Congress, this crisis described the widening gap between high industrial prices and low agricultural prices under the NEP.
What is the "scissors crisis"?
This Bolshevik leader "rescued" Stalin at the 1924 Central Committee meeting by arguing that Lenin's fears about him had proven baseless.
Who is Zinoviev?
This 1919 role, overseeing Russia's many ethnic minorities, let Stalin build networks and loyal contacts across the regions largely unsupervised.
What is Commissar of Nationalities?
In Marx's theory, this is the stage after capitalism, in which the workers control the state and counter-revolutionaries are dealt with.
What is socialism (the dictatorship of the proletariat)?
On 23 October 1917, this Provisional Government leader moved against the Bolsheviks, unintentionally galvanising them into seizing power.
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
This secret police force enforced grain requisitioning and revolutionary terror during War Communism.
What is the Cheka?
Who am I?
I've played for -
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Newcastle Jets
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Am I Taylor Regan?
This term describes the relatively prosperous peasants who emerged under the NEP by selling surplus produce on the open market, and who were later targeted under Stalin's collectivisation.
What are kulaks?
This term describes the informal alliance formed by Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev to sideline Trotsky after Lenin's death.
What is the triumvirate?
Stalin's policy argued the USSR could modernise without Western help, in contrast to Trotsky's theory of "permanent revolution."
What is "socialism in one country"?
Marx's famous phrase summarising communist society, where people contribute according to their skills and take only what they require.
What is "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"?
This Bolshevik ran the Military-Revolutionary Committee and coordinated the Red Guards' seizure of Petrograd's key sites in October 1917.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
This Russian term describes the brutal forced grain requisitioning system used during War Communism.
What is prodrazverstka?
Who am I?
I've scored 1 goal for Maitland FC.
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This is the estimated death toll of the 1921 Russian famine, caused by War Communism, civil war dislocation, and drought.
What is 5 to 8 million people?
Trotsky's absence from this event badly damaged his reputation, after Stalin likely misled him about its date.
What is Lenin's funeral?
This altered 1920 photograph, originally showing Lenin speaking to the Red Army alongside Trotsky and Kamenev, was edited to remove both men — exemplifying how Stalinist propaganda rewrote history.
What is the Sverdlov Square photograph (of Lenin's 1920 Red Army speech)?
This English industrial city, where Engels ran his father's textile business, deepened his understanding of the new working class's problems.
What is Manchester?
This historian argued Lenin acted before the Congress of Soviets convened because he knew the Bolsheviks would lack a majority and would otherwise be forced to compromise with the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries.
Who is Robert Service?
Under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia lost this proportion of its overall population, along with over a third of its urban population and 90 per cent of its coal mines.
What is 26 per cent?
In Australia, younger Girl Guides used to be known as Brownies, with their adult leader known as what?
Brown Owl
Between 1920 and 1926, industrial production under the NEP rose to over seven times its 1920 level — but by 1926, only this sector had genuinely exceeded its 1913 output.
What is electricity?
Combined with a series of strokes from May 1922 onward, this diagnosed medical condition ultimately caused Lenin's death.
What is (advanced) cerebral arteriosclerosis?
Appointed to head this Commissariat in 1919 — originally created to fight corruption and inefficiency — Stalin gained oversight of the entire government's workings.
What is the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate?