Lenin - Civil War, Opposition and Faction 1917-24

Question 1

When was there an assassination attempt on Lenin?

Answer 1

August 1918 - SR Fanny Kaplan

Question 2

When were the Social Revolutionaries and Menshiviks excluded from the soviets? Why?

Answer 2

June 1918, they were associated with ‘Counter-revolutionary’ organisations

Question 3

When was the Tsar and his family assassinated?

Answer 3

July 1918

Question 4

Who thought it better to ‘overkill’ than be ‘overthrown’?

Answer 4

Lenin and Trotsky

Question 5

Between 1918-1920 how many people are estimated to have been killed by the cheka?

Answer 5

300,000

Question 6

What dies Chistka mean?

Answer 6

The Russian for purge

Question 7

When did the first purge occur?

Answer 7

May 1918

Question 8

How many died from disease and malnutrition in 1918-20?

Answer 8

8 million

Question 9

When did Lenin ban the opposition press?

Answer 9

October 1917

Question 10

Who was the Cheka under?

Answer 10

‘iron’ Felix Dzerzhinsky

Question 11

When was the Cheka renamed the GPU? And then OGPU?

Answer 11

1922, 1923

Question 12

When was the ‘Red Terror’?

Answer 12

1918-1922

Question 13

What happened to the remaining Social Revolutionaries and Menshiviks?

Answer 13

Arrested, 500 were shot in St Petersburg

Question 14

What happened to the leader of the Menshiviks?

Answer 14

Martov - left the country

Question 15

Who was accused in the 1922 show trial?

Answer 15

Social Revolutionaries for plotting Lenin’s assassin - 11 were executed

Question 16

How many priests were executed in 1921?

Answer 16

8000

Question 17

What torture methods were used by the Cheka?

Answer 17

• hands put in boiling water until the blisters peel
  -rats in cages around a body, heated so they would eat their way through the victims body to escape

Question 18

Where were Lenin’s concerns with the opposition by 1921?

Answer 18

Within the Party

Question 19

When was there a ‘ban on factions’?

Answer 19

1921