Russian Revolution

Base your answers to the question on the chart.

Which policy is illustrated in this chart?

• pogroms

• five-year plans

• Russification

• nuclear arms

What was the popular slogan that Lenin used to rally the population to his side?

• Peace, Land, and Bread

• Peace, Love, and Happiness

• Peace, Love, and War

• Peace, Land, and Food

The main purpose of the many purges and public trials that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1930s was to

• force the Jewish people to leave the Soviet Union

• eliminate opposition to Joseph Stalin and his government

• establish a free and independent court system in the Soviet Union

• reform the outdated and inadequate agricultural system

". . . The replacement of the bourgeois by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution. The abolition of the proletarian state, i.e., of all states, is only possible through 'withering away.' . . ."

— V. I. Lenin, State and Revolution

The ideas in this quotation inspired

• the Russian Revolution

•  the Haitian Revolution

• the Cuban Revolution

• the Industrial Revolution

Which statement best describes the political situation in the Soviet Union immediately after Lenin's death in 1924?

• The nation adopted a constitutional monarchy.

• Trotsky and his followers assumed full control of the Communist Party.

• Popular elections were held to choose a new General Secretary.

• A power struggle developed among Communist Party leaders.

Base your answers to question on the following table and on your knowledge of social studies.

Between which two years did the number of collective farms increase the most?

• 1929 and 1930

• 1930 and 1931

• 1934 and 1935

• 1939 and 1940

 In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin governed by means of secret police, censorship, and purges. This type of government is called

• democracy

• totalitarian

• limited monarchy

• theocracy

Base your answers to question on the following table and on your knowledge of social studies.

Which Soviet policy is most closely associated with the information in this table?

• Lenin's New Economic Policy

•  Stalin's five-year plans

• Brezhnev's policy of détente

• Gorbachev's policy of glasnost

A major goal of Joseph Stalin’s five-year plans was to

• encourage communist revolutions in the colonies of the European powers

• transform the Soviet Union into an industrial power

• expand the Soviet Union’s borders to include warm-water ports

• reduce the amount of foreign aid coming from the Western Hemisphere

Which condition was a result of Joseph Stalin’s command economy?

• Peasants were encouraged to sell surplus grain for personal profit.

• The production of consumer goods increased.

• National revenue increased allowing for greater individual spending.

• The government controlled agriculture through collective farms.