History quiz

Exercises on the October Revolution

question 1

(PUC-RS) In 1917, led by Lenin and Trotsky, the Bolsheviks gained popularity with the “April Theses”, set out in the “peace, land and bread” platform, which proposed:

  1. the maintenance of Russia in the First World War, the conquest of Manchuria and the formation of the soviets.
  2. Russia's exit from World War I, the establishment of a parliamentary monarchy and the formation of the Red Guard.
  3. Russia's entry into World War I, the installation of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the adoption of a new economic policy (NEP).
  4. the maintenance of Russia in the First World War, the dominance of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits and the formation of a parliament.
  5. Russia's exit from the First World War, the division of large estates among the peasants and the regularization of internal supplies.

question 2

(Mack) Then arose a worker, rude looking, terribly indignant, furious:

– I speak for the Petrograd proletarians, he said brutally. We are for the insurrection. You do as you please. But I warn you:if you let the soviets be destroyed, you will die for us .

John Reed

The previous text relates to:

  1. the role of the councils of representatives of workers, soldiers and peasants in the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  2. the resistance of communists, members of the Union Congress of Soviets, to the election of Boris Yeltsin as president of the USSR.
  3. Stalin's organization of the Red Army during the Russian Revolution of February 1917.
  4. the political coup implemented by members of the Supreme Soviet in August 1991 against Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.
  5. the resistance of the proletariat and the military to the program entitled New Economic Policy, defended and put into practice by Lenin.
question 3

The seizure of power by the Bolsheviks on October 25, 1917 made it possible for the new government to adopt some administrative measures, among which it did not fit:

  1. training of People's Commissars.
  2. the adoption of the principle of workers' control of production.
  3. the distribution of land to peasants.
  4. abolition of titles of nobility.
  5. Maintenance of the union between State and Church.
question 4

List the columns below that depict events related to the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia.

I) Storming of the Winter Palace

a) Congress in which the soviets were willing to carry out a new seizure of power.

II) Third Conference of All-Russian Factory Committees

b) Organ of ministers constituted to govern the new State.

III) Appeal to workers, soldiers and peasants

c) Moment of the overthrow of the Provisional Government, on October 25, 1917, and the establishment of the Soviet government.

IV) Council of People's Commissars

d) Document written by Lenin informing the population of the transfer of power to the soviets.

Indicate the alternative below that correctly associates the two columns.

  1. I-c; II-a; III-d; IV-b.
  2. I-d; II-a; III-b; IV-c.
  3. I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a.
  4. I-a; II-c; III-d; IV-b.
  5. I-c; II-d; III-b; IV-c.
answers Question 1

Letter E . These three slogans sought precisely to overcome the social problems linked to war, hunger and land concentration that had led the population to rebel against the tsar and to overthrow him in February 1917.

question 2

Letter A . The soviets were the main organizing body created by the Russian working class during the Revolution. The speech demonstrates the workers' defense of this organ.

question 3

Letter E . Due to the fact that the church was considered an obstacle to human emancipation and its connection with the tsarist regime, the Bolsheviks decided to separate the church from the state.

question 4

Letter A .