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The Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War
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An overview of the Russian Civil War.
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1
Which general attacked Petrograd, attacking from Estonia?
Denikin
Miller
Wrangel
Yudenich
2
What would you have
not found
on Trotsky's armoured train?
Infirmary
A stage
Printing presses
Trench-digging equipment
3
How did the Cheka respond to White Terror?
Making 'gloves'
Partisan military courts
500,000 executions
Captured generals were slowly fed into fire or boiling water
4
How many miles did Trotsky travel on his armoured train during the Civil War?
75,000
85,000
65,000
55,000
5
What was the aim of the peasant 'Green' armies?
Securing communism
Independence
Re-instating autocracy
Re-opening an Eastern Front
6
Which White leader refused to recognise Komuch and declared himself Supreme Ruler?
General Yudenich
Admiral Kolchak
General Wrangel
General Denikin
7
What was the focus of Bolshevik propaganda during the Civil War?
Red Army conscription
Arousing fear of the Cheka and the 'Red Terror'
Gathering votes in upcoming elections
Patriotism against the allied interventionists
8
How much money did Britain commit to fund British intervention?
£200 million
£100 million
£10 million
£50 million
9
Why did so many Russians starve during the Civil War?
Grain requisitioning
Prioritisation
Rationing
Allied blockades
10
What was the name of the atrocities, often anti-Semitic, carried out by anti-Bolshevik armies?
Pogroms
'White Terror'
'Red Terror'
War Communism
11
How did the Red Army prevent desertions?
Blocking detachments
Red Army Commissars
Decimation of 200 deserters at Svyazhsk
Using ex-Tsarist generals
12
How many ex-tsarist officers were drafted into the Red Army?
30,000
50,000
20,000
40,000
13
Which general attacked from the Ukraine in the south, soon threatening to capture Moscow?
Kornilov
Yudenich
Wrangel
Denikin
14
Which of the following
was not
a cause for the Czech Legion fighting against the Bolsheviks?
The Legion did not trust the Bolshevik's German connections
The Legion was frustrated at the slow passage to Vladivostok
The Legion was asked to fully disarm
The Legion were fiercely and ideologically anti-Communist
15
When did foreign intervention increase?
August 1918 onwards
October 1917
As soon as the Bolsheviks seized power
When WWI drew to a close
16
What was the name of the SR government established in Samara?
The White Committee
Sovnarkom
Komuch
Committee members of the Constituent Assembly
17
What was the name of the varied, anti-Bolshevik forces in the Civil War?
The Greens
The Reds
The Whites
18
How many deaths occurred in the Civil War due to combat and disease?
500,000 plus 5 million
350,000 plus 4.5 million
200,000 plus 5 million
250,000 plus 4.5 million
19
Which Bolshevik became Commissar for War?
Sverdlov
Lenin
Trotsky
Stalin
20
Who helped to recapture Kazan, the first successful Red counter-attack in the Civil War?
Kronstadt sailors
Georgian peasant army
Nestor Makhno's Black Earth Army
