Question 1.
Who were Jadidist ?
(a) They were social reformers
(b) They were Revolutionary
(c) They were Christians
(d) The were Muslim reformers within Russian Empire.
Question 2.
What was the slogan of the Bolshhvik Party which brought it into power in Russia ?
(a) All powers to the Soviets
(b) All powers to the Czar
(c) All powers to the Duma
(d) All powers enjoyed by middle class
Question 3.
Who were the Kulaks?
(a) Workers of Bolshevik Party
(b) Workers of Menshevik Party
(c) Group of army leader
(d) Well-to-do peasants
Question 4.
When did Russian Czar, Nicholas II resign?
(a) On March 3, 1917
(b) On Feb. 2, 1917
(c) On March 2, 1917
(d) On Feb. 4, 1917
Question 5.
Which of the following statements are true about Marfa Vasileva?
(i) She was a brave mill worker (ii) She was a milling machine operator (iii) She single handled organised a successful strike (iv) She was a typical Russian housewife.
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (i) and (iv)
(c) (i), (ii) and (iii)
(d) All are correct.
Question 6.
Russia decided to withdraw from World War I because:
(i) People were demanding peace. (ii) A civil war was going on in Russia. (iii) Russia had lost lot of manpower. (iv) It was against imperialism.
(a) (i) and (iv)
(b) (i) and (iii)
(c) All (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(d) All are not the correct reasons.
Question 7.
What was the status of Non- Russian nationalities before 1917 Russian Revolution.
(i) They had equal status (ii) They were treated as inferiors (iii) They were given equal rights (iv) They were not allowed to practise their own language and culture
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (iii) and (iv)
(c) (ii) and (iv)
(d) (i) and (iii)
Question 8.
What are the features of the Communist International?
(i) It was formed to promote Socialist Revolution on an international scale. (ii) It was decided the policies to be pursued and laid them down for worldwide acceptance. (iii) The section of the socialist party which were more radical and progressive organised themselves into common interest (iv) It was formally ended in 1943
(a) (i) and (iv) are correct
(b) (i) and (iv) are correct
(c) (i) and (iii) are not correct
(d) All are correct
Question 9.
Who started collectivisation?
(a) Lenin
(b) Czar II
(c) Stalin
(d) Rusputin
Question 10.
Who is the author of the book Γ’€˜The History of a Soviet Collective FarmΓ’€™?
(a) Fedor Belov
(b) V.Sokalov
(c) S.D. Vidyalanker
(d) R.S. Avasthi
Question 11.
Socialist Revolutionary party of Russia was formed in:
(a) 1905
(b) 1911
(c) 1907
(d) 1900
Question 12.
Which of the following is not an Industrial area of Russia?
(i) St. Petersburg (ii) Moscow (iii) East London (iv) Greenland
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (iii) and (iv)
(c) Only (i)
(d) Only (b)
Question 13.
Bloody Sunday incident occured in:
(a) 1905
(b) 1907
(c) 1911
(d) 1917
Question 14.
Why was the year 1904 bad for the Russian workers ?
(a) Industrial revolution replace manual work with machines.
(b) Price rose very high, it became very difficult for workers to make their both ends meet.
(c) Price fell down, as a result there was no shortage of food.
(d) Workers had to work for long time under harsh condition.
Question 15.
Which of the following country was not the part of central power?
(a) Russia
(b) Turkey
(c) Germany
(d) Austria
Question 16.
Four countries a, b, c, d are given below, identify which was not the part of Allies ?
(a) Britain
(b) France
(c) Germany
(d) Russia
Question 17.
The First World War was fought in between:
(a) 1914-1917
(b) 1914-1918
(c) 1904-1917
(d) 1914-1919
Question 18.
What was Duma?
(a) The elected consultative Parliament
(b) The title given to Czar
(c) The cabinet of Czar
(d) The groups Russian Revolutionary
Question 19.
How many Russian casualties were there by 1917 ?
(a) About 10 million
(b) About 9 million
(c) About 8 million
(d) About 7 million
Question 20.
The civil war in Russia broke out in……….and lasted till ………….
(a) 1918 – 1920
(b) 1918 – 1919
(c) 1917 – 1918
(d) 1911 – 1914
Write true (T) or false (F)
1. The radicals wanted a nation in which government was based on the majority of a country’s population.
2. Conservatives were not opposed to radicals and liberals.
3. Industrialisation brought men, women and children to factories.
4. Opposed to the privileges the old aristocracy firmly believed in the value of individual effort, labour and enterprise.
5. In France, Italy, Germany and Russia, some nationalists became revolutionaries and worked to overthrow the existing dictatorship.
6. Socialists were against private property, and saw it as the root of all social ills of the time.
7. Robert Owen, a leading French manufacturer sought to build a cooperative community called New Harmony in Indiana.
8. Karl Marx argued that industrial society was capitalist.
9. Metalworkers considered them-selves aristocrats among other workers.
10. In France, peasants wanted the land of the nobles to be given to them.
11. All political parties were illegal in Russia before 1914.
12. Some Russian socialists felt that the Russian peasant custom of dividing land periodically made them natural socialists.
13. The Socialist Revolutionary Party was formed in 1905.
14. Vladimir Lenin thought that in a repressive society like Tsarist Russia the party should be disciplined and should control the number and quality of its members.
15. The year 1904 was particularly a bad one for Russian nobles.
16. A procession of workers led by Falter Gapon, when reached the Winter Palace was attacked by the police and the cossacks.
Match the following
1.
| Column A | Column B |
| (a) War broke out between two European alliances in | A. 1916 |
| (b) Railway lines began to breakdown by | B. 25 Feb |
| (c) The government suspended the Duma on | C. 1917 |
| (d) Lenin returned to Russia from exile in | D. 1919 |
| (e) Formation of Comintern. | E. 1914 |
2.
| Column I | Column II | Column III |
| 1. Debates over Socialism | (a) Democratic Workers Party | A. 1850s to1880s |
| 2. Formation of the Russian | (b) Sunday | B. 1917 |
| 3. The Bloody | (c) 2nd March | C. 24th October |
| 4. Abdication of the Tsar | (d) Petrograd on | D. 1905 |
| 5. Bolshevik uprising in | (e) in Russia were held in | E. 1898 |
Fill in the blanks
1. The ……………. Party was renamed as the Russian Communist Party
2. When the Bolsheviks ordered land redistribution, the ……………. army began to break up.
3. During 1918 and 1919, the ……………. and ……………. controlled most of the Russian Empire.
4. In ……………., Bolshevik colonists brutally massacred local nationalists in name of defending …………….. .
5. Centralised planning led to ……………. growth.
6. After the death of Lenin, ……………. introduced firm emergency measures.
7. A bad harvest of 1930-33 killed about ……………. million people.
8. Many ……………. from outside the USSR participated in conference of the Peoples of the East.
9. Among those the Russian Revolution inspired were many ……………. .
10. Rabindranath Tagore wrote that Γ’€˜ ……………. appears much less clean than the other European CapitalsΓ’€™.
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