In “A Russian Peasant and Two Generals”, how did the generals get back Russia from that island?
What is "The peasant sailed them back"
100
What is the name of a famous writer died at Astapovo railway station.
Who is Count Leo Tolstoy
100
The main reason for the Revolution of 1917
What is World War I?
100
This transient poetic school focused on compactness of form and clarity of expression.
What is Acmeism
100
This act is the organized massacre of Jewish Ghettos.
What is Pogrom
200
Leo Tolstoy is the author of this short story
What is Alyosha the Pot
200
A Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet Politician, and the founding leader of the Red Army.
Who is Leon Trotsky
200
Action that signified the end of the Provisonal Government and the establishment of Bolshevik rule
What was the storming of the Winter Palace
200
This school believed in art for art's sake.
What are decadents
200
was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who described it as a progression towards "state capitalism" within the workers' state of the USSR
What is the NEP
300
In “Matroyna’s Home”, what is the job of “I”?
What is a math teacher
300
Head of the Provisional Government after the czar abdicated, this man continued Russia's involvement in World War I
Who was Alexander Kerensky
300
Began in St. Petersburg on Jan 22. When troops fired on a defenseless crowd of workers, who, led by a priest, were marching to the Winter Palace to petition Czar Nicholas II
What is Revolution of 1905
300
School that rejected traditional forms so as to celebrate and incorporate into art the energy and dynamism of modern technology.
What is futurism
300
Lived from 1868 to 1936, his last name translates to Bitter
Who is Maxim Gorky
400
Who helped the secret police in “A May Night”?
Who is Brodski
400
Born in 1880, this symbolist writer was considered th last and greatest symbolist
Who is Alexander Blok
400
City where Lenin created the Communist party in 1903
What is London
400
An artistic and poetic movement using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind.
What is symbolism
400
was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor.
Who is Varlam Shalamov
500
Martin, in “The cave”, tried hard to find a piece of wood. So what did he put into the stove at the end of the story?
What are tossed papers
500
Was a highly influential econometrician, minister, and prime minister in Imperial Russia
What is Count Sergei Witte
500
The revolution came with Riots and Demonstrations, spurred by Russian involved in WWI and a shortage of bread and coal in the capital of Petersburg
What is the Revolution of 1917
500
An acmeist, this author was also married to Nikolay Gumiliov