Romanovs
Communists
Stalinism
World Wars
Miscellaneous
100
The mystic who gained favor with Alexandra for his ability to aleviate Alexei's hemophilia.
Who is Rasputin?
100
He was Premier of the provisional government.
Who was Kerenski?
100
A rapid annihiliation of a large group of people -- something Stalin employed often through the ranks of his military and government.
What is a purge?
100
The turning point on the Eastern Front during WWII.
What is Stalingrad?
100
A combined governmental and economic system in which all resources, goods, and means of production are owned equally by all citizens.
What is Communism?
200
The last tsar of Russia.
Who is Nicholas II?
200
A plan implemented by Lenin to allow for some free enterprise.
What is the NEP?
200
Plans for the growth of Soviet economy that were not met and resulted in the government systematically lying to the Soviet people.
What are the five-year plans?
200
Supplies Russian soldiers lacked during WWI (creating bitterness toward the tsar).
What is food/ammunition/weapons/etc? (any of those answers is acceptable)
200
The reason our dates don't match Russian dates for corresopnding events during the revolution.
What is the Julian Calendar?
300
The war during which Russia experienced the humiliating loss of Port Arthur, leading to riots in St. Petersburg.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
300
The country that allowed Lenin to travel back to Russia at the start of the revolution as long as he went in a sealed, single-car train.
What is Germany?
300
An economic policy that intended to eliminate kulaks and improve efficiency but ended up leading to widespread famine.
What is the collectivization of agriculture?
300
Germany's strategy to avoid a two-front war (which failed when Russia mobilized in ten days at the start of WWI).
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
300
The systematic, large-scale murder of a people.
What is genocide?
400
The youngest of the tsar's daughters; some say she was murdered in 1918, while some say she survived and began life anew as Anna Anderson.
Who is the Grand Duchess Anastasia?
400
The man Stalin defeated in the struggle for power after Lenin's death and who was stabbed to death by an ice pick in Mexico City.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
400
Stalin's interpretation of Communism before he came to power.
What is Communism in one country?
400
The "Big Three" who met at Yalta.
Who are Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt?
400
The violent event which forced Nicholas to allow for the creation of the Duma.
What is the Bloody Sunday Massacre?
500
The belief (held by Nicholas and Alexandra) that the tsar was ordained by God to rule, and that the person of the tsar was sacred.
What is Divine Right?
500
Co-authors of The Communist Manifesto.
Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
500
Often located in Siberia, this is where Soviets were sent as punishment for unacceptable work performance and where millions of them died.
What are Gulag labor camps?
500
The agreement of nonaggression between Germany and the USSR prior to WWII.
What is the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
500
The year serfdom was finally abolished in Russia.
What is 1861?
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