Russian civil war

Question 1

What were the Bolsheviks unwilling to share

Answer 1

Power

Question 2

What did the Bolsheviks lack control of

Answer 2

Enough of Russia

Question 3

What did Lenin fear

Answer 3

That further revolution as other parties would have a popular mandate to govern

Question 4

Why do some historians believe Lenin wanted a civil war

Answer 4

So he could quickly defeat his opponents rather than have a long drawn out conflict

Question 5

What did the greens support

Answer 5

Economic power being transferred to local groups of peasants

Question 6

What had dominated Russia by July July 1918

Answer 6

A one party state

Question 7

What did some people want a return of

Answer 7

The tsar/pg government

Question 8

Why did Britain and France supply resources for the whites

Answer 8

Because they wanted Russia to remain in the war and prevent communism

Question 9

Who was the Czech legion

Answer 9

Austria-Hungarian prisoners who fought the allies in hopes to build their own country after they had been defeated

Question 10

Who made up the Czech legion

Answer 10

40,000 men

Question 10

Why did national minorities fight the Bolsheviks

Answer 10

Because they wanted to create their own countries and wanted individualism

Question 11

Why did left wing SRs abandon their coalition with the Bolsheviks

Answer 11

Their opposition to the treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Question 12

What did Lenin authorised that caused a clash with the peasantry

Answer 12

The forcible collection of brain stocks to feed the army and cities

Question 13

How did peasants react to grain requisitioning

Answer 13

Avoided conscription and hid stocks

Question 14

What did the white army lack

Answer 14

A unified command structure and strategy

Question 15

What was the white army spread over

Answer 15

Large geographical areas

Question 16

What did the whites often fail to do

Answer 16

Coordinate attacks and sacrifice own interests and work with the greens

Question 17

Why did the whites lack support

Answer 17

They were considered former tsarist supporters and foreign invaders

Question 18

Which officers did the reds use

Answer 18

Ex-tsarist officers who had great experience

Question 19

What did Trotsky control

Answer 19

Railway routes, making it easier to transport troops

Question 20

What did Trotsky enforce in the red army

Answer 20

Strict discipline and

Question 21

What did Trotsky use

Answer 21

The Cheka to remove political opponents

Question 22

When did foreign forces stop supporting the whites

Answer 22

After the armistice had been signed

Question 23

Why did foreign leaders stop helping the whites

Answer 23

When they realised they had no chance of winning, which weakened the white forces further

Question 24

Who did polish forces invade

Answer 24

Ukraine, capturing Kiev

Question 26

What treaty ended the conflict with Russia and Poland

Answer 26

Treaty of riga

Question 27

What was repression known as between 1918-21

Answer 27

Red terror

Question 28

What do some historians argue about Lenin’s use of terror

Answer 28

That it was adapted due to civil war

Question 29

What was repression argued to be a key component of

Answer 29

Marxism-Leninism

Question 30

What was the Cheka

Answer 30

Secret police that was modelled on the okhrana

Question 31

How many members were there in the Cheka by 1921

Answer 31

143,000

Question 32

Who was the Cheka accountable to

Answer 32

Lenin- not the law

Question 33

Why did Lenin execute the Romanov’s

Answer 33

He had 2 assassination attempts against him and knew he couldn’t let the old establishment remain

Question 34

When were the Romanov’s executed

Answer 34

July 1918

Question 35

What did Dzerzhinsky set up

Answer 35

Labour camps for enemies of the revolution

Question 36

How many labour camps were built

Answer 36

300

Question 37

Why did the SRs oppose the Bolsheviks

Answer 37

Opposed conditions by the imperial powers, rejected the treaty

Question 38

What did general deniken lead

Answer 38

White forces on the southern front in Russia and Ukraine

Question 39

What did denikins army infiltrate

Answer 39

Mass atrocities and anti-Jewish pogroms

Question 40

When and where was denekins army defeated

Answer 40

Orel in 1919

Question 41

What did admiral kolchak lead

Answer 41

Lead white move movement and proclaimed supreme ruler

Question 42

When and where was kolchak defeated

Answer 42

Siberia in 1919

Question 43

How did the reds gain recruits

Answer 43

By offering defeated enemy troops the option to enlist or die

Question 44

How were the reds sustained

Answer 44

By a driving sense of purpose and their belief in their own victory

Question 45

Why had the civil war erupted

Answer 45

Due to the increasingly high opposition of the Bolshevik givernment