Bolshevik Ideology
Name of the work which informs Bolshevik ideology
What is The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels?
The first international act of Sovnarkom
What is the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
The 3 who sat on the Left Opposition
Who are Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev?
Name of the State Planning Commission
What is Gosplan?
Name two forms of propaganda
What are posters, speeches, news articles, films?
The class of people loved by Bolshevism
What are the workers (proletariat and the peasants)?
Name two parts of early Soviet government
What are the Politburo, the Central Committee and the Secretariat?
Was smuggled through Germany in time for the October Revolution in 1917
Who is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, also known as Lenin?
Stalin did this to the peasants' land from 1929
What is collectivisation?
Name of the particular propaganda which has Stalin pictured with happy workers and peasants
What is Social Realism?
The name of the system the Bolsheviks wanted to replace with socialism
What is capitalism?
War, what is it good for
Sat on the fence in the leadership race until 1925, loved Lenin
Who is Joseph Stalin?
What it was supposed to do and whether it worked
What is provide the capital to drive industrialisation, and yes, but too slowly, also created famine?
Name of the terror organisations in Soviet Russia
What are the Cheka/GPU/OGPU/NKVD and the gulags?
What Bolsheviks thought of private property
What is all property should be in the hands of the people?
The economic policy favoured by Lenin in the early Soviet government
What is war communism?
Expelled from the Bolshevik Party in 1927, bad headache in 1940
Who is Leon Trotsky?
The amount of Five-Year Plans prior to the breakout of WWII for the Soviets
What is 3?
Important figures in the cult of personality
Who are Lenin and Stalin?
The social group targeted by Stalin at the end of the 1920s
Who are the kulaks?
And when that doesn't work, Lenin puts in place...
What is the New Economic Policy (NEP)?
Not a Soviet, but the guy who started it all
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?
What it was supposed to do and whether it worked
What is make Russia a strong industrialised nation, and yes, but too slowly, did not provide a utopian life for the workers (fails the Bolshevik test)?
Name of the organisation in charge of censorship
What is GLAVIT?