Unit 18: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Europe
Topic 18.12: Imperial Russia, revolution and the establishment of the Soviet Union (1855–1924) Questions
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Who chaired the Petrograd Soviet and organised the Military Revolutionary Committee that seized power in October 1917?
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Approximately how many people are estimated to have died in the famine caused by War Communism's grain requisitioning in 1921–22?
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Choose the document, issued in 1906, that reaffirmed the tsar's supreme authority just before Russia's first elected Duma convened.
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Choose the event that directly triggered the outbreak of the 1905 Revolution.
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Choose the correct year in which Alexander II issued the Emancipation Edict freeing Russia's serfs.
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Which event in 1917 proved decisive in ending Nicholas II's ability to suppress the revolution by force?
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Choose the term for the village collective to which land was allocated under the 1861 Emancipation, rather than to individual peasant families.
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Choose the tsarist minister who was primarily responsible for Russia's programme of rapid industrialisation from the 1890s.
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What was 'Order Number 1', issued by the Petrograd Soviet in March 1917?
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What event directly triggered Lenin's decision to introduce the New Economic Policy in March 1921?
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Evaluate the claim that the October Manifesto (1905) marked a genuine turning point in Russian government.
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Examine the reasons why the Provisional Government failed to retain power between March and October 1917.
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Compare and contrast the methods used by two rulers, each from a different region, to suppress political opposition in the years 1870 to 1920.
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Examine the reasons for the Bolshevik (Red) victory in the Russian Civil War, 1918–1921.
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Discuss the view that the 1905 Revolution was a 'dress rehearsal' for 1917 rather than a genuine turning point in its own right.
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To what extent was War Communism (1918–1921) a successful policy for the Bolshevik regime?
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Examine the reasons for the growth of radical political movements (Populists, Social Democrats and Socialist Revolutionaries) in Russia between 1870 and 1905.
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Evaluate the relative importance of long-term structural weaknesses versus short-term triggers in explaining the crisis of tsarist Russia by 1905.
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Compare and contrast the methods used to consolidate power by two single-party rulers, each chosen from a different region, in the years following their rise to power.
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Analyse the role of ideology in shaping Bolshevik policy between 1917 and 1924.
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