1917-'33 Flashcards
(54 cards)
When did Lenin set up the Comintern
March 1919
Who was in charge of the Comintern
Grigori Zinoviev
When did the Bolsheviks seize power in Russia
October 1917
When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed
March 1918
When did WW1 end
11 November 1918
When was the Spartacist Rising in Berlin
January 1919
When was the Paris Peace Conference
Jan 1919- Jan 1920
Trotsky quote
“Either the Russian Revolution will create a revolutionary movement in Europe, or the European powers will destroy the Russian Revolution.”
Trotsky quote
“Either the Russian Revolution will create a revolutionary movement in Europe, or the European powers will destroy the Russian Revolution.”
When was “The Communist Manifesto” published
1848
When was the Russian Civil War
1918-‘21
What year was the Russo Polish War
1920
When was the Treaty of Riga concluded
18 March 1921
What year was the NEP (New Economic Policy) introduced
1921
Which Historian said that the USSR were “working with the West whilst trying to destroy them”
Lee
What year was the Treaty of Rapalloo signed
1922
What was the Treaty of Rapallo
signed by Germany and USSR, pariah states
They renounced all territorial and financial claims between themselves
Soviets also gained from econ expertise and preventing an anti-Bolshevik alliance between G and Br
When was the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement
16 March 1921
When was the Genoa Conference
April to May 1922
Which politician said that Bolshevism should be “strangled in the cradle”
Winston Churchill
How many Allied countries intervened on the side of the Whites in the Russian Civil War
14
By 1919, how much money had the British given to the Whites in the Russian Civil War
£45.5 million
When was the Curzon Ultimatum
29 May 1923
What was the Curzon Ultimaum
British demanded that Lenin halt all revolutionary activity in return for Britain restoring pre-war aid, threatening to cancel ASTA if not
