WW1

Question 0

How many strikes in 1914?

Answer 0

3,574

Question 1

WW1 was between…

Answer 1

1914-17

Question 2

How many soldiers had been killed, wounded or captured in WW1 by 1916?

Answer 2

8 million out of 15 million men

Question 3

WW1 made the soldiers begin to think that…

Answer 3

The tsar was the real enemy, so began to listen to Bolshevik revolutionary ideas

Question 4

What did the Bolsheviks promise?

Answer 4

Peace, bread and land

Question 5

What initially happened to the tsar in 1914?

Answer 5

Experienced an upsurge in popularity and patriotism

Question 6

When did nick II formally take over direct command of the armed services?

Answer 6

1915

Question 7

How was WW1 ended?

Answer 7

With lenins decree on peace in 1917

Question 8

Rise in government spending 1914-17?

Answer 8

4 to 30 million roubles

Question 9

How did the government try to combat inflation?

Answer 9

Increased taxation at home and heavy borrowing form abroad, but this was only a partial success

Question 10

What happened to the gold standard after WW2?

Answer 10

Abandoned so the government could put more notes into circulation so wages could be paid and commerce could continue - led to inflation

Question 11

What happened to Russia’s financial stability after WW1?

Answer 11

Destroyed

Question 12

Price of food and fuel 1914-16…

Answer 12

Quadrupled

Question 13

Peasants hoarding grain meant that by 1917…

Answer 13

Towns and cities were on the verge of famine

Question 14

Bread rationing during WW1 meant that…

Answer 14

Civilians were receiving less than 1/4 of the amount that’d been available in 1914

Question 15

What treaty ended WW1?

Answer 15

1918 treaty of Brest-litovsk

Question 16

What was lost in Brest-litovsk?

Answer 16

1/4 of the population, 1/4 of industry, heavy % of agricultural lands and ore deposits