Y10: 7-8. Specification Questions on Russia (1900-1941)

1.

Can you answer all of these questions in detail?

2.

SOLUTIONS

The Collapse of the Tsarist regime.

QUESTION 1.

Why did the Tsarist regime collapse in 1917?

QUESTION 2.

How well did the Tsarist regime deal with the difficulties of ruling Russia up to 1914?

QUESTION 3.

How did the Tsar survive the 1905 revolution?

QUESTION 4.

How far was the Tsar weakened by the First World War?

QUESTION 5.

Why was the revolution of March 1917 successful?

The Bolsheviks.

QUESTION 6.

How did the Bolsheviks gain power, and how did they consolidate their rule?

…how did the Bolsheviks consolidate their rule?

QUESTION 7.

How effectively did the Provisional Government rule Russia in 1917?

QUESTION 8.

Why were the Bolsheviks able to seize power in November 1917?

QUESTION 9.

Why did the Bolsheviks win the Civil War?

QUESTION 10.

How far was the New Economic Policy a success?

Stalin’s Rule.

QUESTION 11.

How did Stalin gain and hold on to power?

QUESTION 12.

Why did Stalin, and not Trotsky, emerge as Lenin’s successor?

QUESTION 13.

Why did Stalin launch the Purges?

QUESTION 14.

What methods did Stalin use to control the Soviet Union?

QUESTION 15.

How complete was Stalin’s control over the Soviet Union by 1941?

Stalin’s Economic Policies.

QUESTION 16.

What was the impact of Stalin’s economic policies?

QUESTION 17.

Why did Stalin introduce the Five-Year Plans?

QUESTION 18.

Why did Stalin introduce Collectivization?

QUESTION 19.

How successful were Stalin’s economic changes?

QUESTION 20.

How were the Soviet people affected by these changes?

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