Bolshevik Control

Question 1

What would the Constituent Assembly be able to do?

Answer 1

Pass or amend laws

Question 2

Who was accused of sabotaging the CA elections?

Answer 2

Kerensky

Question 3

When did Lenin announce that the elections for the CA would occur in November?

Answer 3

October 27th

Question 4

How many seats did Bolsheviks gain in late November?

Answer 4

175 seats out of 715

Question 5

How did Bolsheviks poll with workers and soldiers?

Answer 5

43% in Petrograd
46% in Moscow

Question 6

What did Lenin condemn the CA as?

Answer 6

Unrepresentative and skewed

Question 7

Who was elected chairman of the CA?

Answer 7

Chernov

Question 8

Why did Bolsheviks walk out of the assembly?

Answer 8

They replaced soviet decrees with SR policies

Question 9

When the Bolsheviks returned the next day what did they do?

Answer 9

Barricaded the entrances. And the assembly was dissolved. Lenin claimed that the Soviets had taken all power and rights into their own hands.

Question 10

In 1914 how many women comprised of the industrial labour force?

Answer 10

1/3

Question 11

What did the Bolsheviks want for women?

Answer 11

To liberate them by removing traditional restrictions on marriage, divorce, abortion, etc.

Question 12

When was the Zhenotdel formed?

Answer 12

1919

Question 13

What was the Zhenotdel?

Answer 13

The world’s first government departments exclusively concerned with women

Question 14

What did women get the right to do between 1918-20?

Answer 14

Right to own property, own and manage a business, right to vote

Question 15

When was the Bolshevik Family Law passed?

Answer 15

October 1918

Question 16

What did the Bolshevik Family Law do?

Answer 16

Made marriage a civil contract rather than religious

Question 17

What did the 1918 Labour Code do for women?

Answer 17

Banned pregnant women from working overtime and night shifts. Allowed nursing mothers a 30 minute break every 3 hours to breastfeed. Paid maternity leave

Question 18

When was abortion removed from the criminal code?

Answer 18

1920

Question 19

Who reversed many female rights granted?

Answer 19

Stalin

Question 20

What did the Decree on Education in November of 1917 do?

Answer 20

Ordered the formation of a commissariat to improve illiteracy

Question 21

All illiterate Russians aged between what had to learn to read and write and to not do so was a criminal offense?

Answer 21

Aged between 8 and 50

Question 22

When did they form a Literacy Cheka?

Answer 22

July 1920

Question 23

How many party members were drafted as teachers?

Answer 23

100,000

Question 24

How many likpunkty (literacy schools) were set up?

Answer 24

20,000

Question 25

By 1929, how many were able to read and write?

Answer 25

68% men and 56% women compared to 40% men and 16% women in 1897

Question 26

When was the Decree on Peace?

Answer 26

October 1917

Question 27

What was the Decree on Peace about?

Answer 27

An immediate truce to the war. Signed 2nd December 1917.

Question 28

Why did Lenin ban opposing newspapers and parties?

Answer 28

They were opposition

Question 29

What was the Rights of the People of Russia Decree in November 1917?

Answer 29

It gave the right of self determination for national minorities

Question 30

When was the Decree on Land?

Answer 30

November 1917

Question 31

What did the Decree on Land state?

Answer 31

It gave peasants the right to take over estates of the gentry without compensation.

Question 32

What was the Workers Control Decree?

Answer 32

Gave factories the right to control production and supervise management. Led to a fall in industrial output.

Question 33

Who was liable to be arrested with the abolishment of the legal system?

Answer 33

The bourgeois

Question 34

What did the Abolition of titles and class distinction do?

Answer 34

Ended privilege

Question 35

When were women declared equal to men?

Answer 35

November 1917

Question 36

When was the Cheka set up?

Answer 36

7th December 1917

Question 37

Who led the Cheka?

Answer 37

Dzerzhinsky

Question 38

When was the army demobilised and the Red Army was formed?

Answer 38

January 1918

Question 39

When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed?

Answer 39

March 3rd 1918

Question 40

What did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk lead to?

Answer 40

They had to cede a huge portion of territory amounting to a 1/3 of European Russia to Germany. Reparations of 3 billion roubles. Had to give up Ukraine, the most important grain producing region

Question 41

When was the Decree on Nationalisation?

Answer 41

June 1918

Question 42

What did the Decree on Nationalisation do?

Answer 42

Led to all major industries being under government control

Question 43

Who won the election in the constituent assembly?

Answer 43

The social revolutionaries

Question 44

Who stated that the Treaty was "a necessary evil"?

Answer 44

Orlando Figes

Question 45

What was the Sovnarkom?

Answer 45

The council of people's commissars. It was the highest executive and administrative authority.

Question 46

When was the Sovnarkom founded?

Answer 46

1917 by Lenin

Question 47

What did the Sovnarkom do?

Answer 47

It served as the Bolshevik cabinet, issuing decrees, consolidating power, managing the economy and directing the government. Cheka. 5 year plans. NEP. Literacy. Decrees.

Question 48

What was the Sovnarkom transformed into in 1946?

Answer 48

The Council of Ministers.

Question 49

Who established the Decrees on Land and Peace, etc?

Answer 49

The Sovnarkom.

Question 50

What did the Sovnarkom do to opposition?

Answer 50

It banned opposing press, arrested political opponents and established the Cheka.

Question 51

When was the old calendar abolished?

Answer 51

1918

Question 52

What did the Bolsheviks do to religion?

Answer 52

They banned it, destroyed churches and killed priests.

Question 53

When was a Commissariat of Health set up?

Answer 53

1922

Question 54

How many medical students did Russia have by 1928?

Answer 54

63,000

Question 55

When was compulsory labour and conscription introduced?

Answer 55

January 1920

Question 56

When did it become a punishable offence for anyone with medical training not to work in the state medical system?

Answer 56

1921

Question 57

When was the Gosbank set up?

Answer 57

1921