The big quiz: Do you know the history of the Russian Revolution?

  1. The strike at which factory started the February Revolution?

    1. Obukhov Company
    2. Baltic Shipyard
    3. Putilov Company
    4. Petrograd Factory

    The Putilov Company, a major artillery manufacturer, was the first to go on strike. Today we know this factory as the Kirov Plant.

  2. Before the February Revolution, Nicholas II faced the opposition of his close relatives, not just the socialists and anti-monarchists. What was this family opposition called?

    1. The Great Conspiracy
    2. The Nobles Fronde
    3. The September Conspiracy
    4. The Dukes’ Mutiny

    Named after the French Fronde des nobles. Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, the tsar’s cousin, was his fiercest opponent.

  3. Which one of these people was not involved in Rasputin’s murder?

    1. Felix Yusupov
    2. Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich
    3. Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich
    4. Vladimir Purishkevich

    The disgraced grand duke was not actually involved. Although he was totally in favor of the idea.

  4. So the tsar abdicated and the monarchy fell – but where was the royal family exiled to?

    1. Pskov
    2. Tobolsk
    3. Ekaterinburg
    4. Mogilev

    In August of 1917, Nicholas II and his family were exiled to Tobolsk, which as Kerensky put it, gave them another year.

  5. Who took power after the fall of the monarchy?

    1. Liberals
    2. Moderate socialists
    3. Liberals and moderate socialists
    4. Conservatives

    The period after the March abdication and July 1917 is called the Diarchy. The country was jointly run by liberals (the Provisional Government) and moderate socialists (the Petrosoviet and local soviets

  6. What were the main goals of the Provisional Government?

    1. Resolving the issue of land
    2. Democratic reforms and victory in the war
    3. Improving the situation in the country
    4. Fighting for peace and liberalizing existing legislation

    Among the main points of the Provisional Government’s platform were preparations for the Constituent Assembly, a number of democratic freedoms, and the promise to fight until victory. The issues of land and workers were ignored

  7. Which of the statements was not part of Lenin’s April Theses?

    1. ‘No support for the Provisional Government’
    2. ‘Reforming the International’
    3. ‘Death to Kerensky’
    4. It was necessary to move from the bourgeois-liberal stage to the socialist one

    Don’t trust the Provisional Government, but nobody called for Kerensky to be killed.

  8. What was the reason behind the April crisis of the Provisional Government?

    1. The Provisional Government started secret talks to end WWI
    2. Decree to ban protests and demonstrations
    3. Russia continued to fight in WWI
    4. The Bolsheviks went underground

    The Provisional Government sought to continue fighting in WWI, a stance that people opposed.

  9. Who was in charge of the Military Revolutionary Committee set up on October 12, 1917?

    1. Jacob Sverdlov
    2. Leon Trotsky
    3. Grigory Zinovyev
    4. Vladimir Lenin

    The Military Revolutionary Committee was set up and run by leading revolutionary Trotsky.