Understanding the Bolshevik Takeover - Civil War Questions Answered

1. The Civil War Revision Test

2. 1. Why were the US, Britain and France alarmed by the Bolshevik takeover? • The tsar had been put to death. • They feared Russia would support Germany in the First World War. • The Bolsheviks wanted world revolution.

3. 2. Who organised the Red Army during the civil war? • Trotsky • Lenin • Stalin

4. 3. What was the name of the system used to organise the whole population to provide supplies for the war effort? • War Bolshevism • War Communism • Dictatorship of the Proletariat

5. 4. What was the "Red Terror"? • The wild charges by the fanatically-loyal communist soldiers. • The murder of communist generals' families by the Whites. • The Bolsheviks putting anyone who opposed them to death.

6. 5. Where did General Miller set up a White government? • Archangel • Vladivostok • The Crimea

7. 6. Admiral Kolchak had 100,000 men and Nicholas II's treasury, so how was he defeated? • A drunken mutiny by his own officers. • A Bolshevik counter-attack. • The Czechs.

8. 7. How was General Yudenich defeated? • Trotsky inspired a counter-attack. • The Finns attacked him from the rear. • The communists took people to fight him by train.

9. 8. Why was General Denikin defeated? • Britain and France did not send any help. • The White Terror was not terrifying enough. • He ran out of money.

10. 9. Where did General Wrangel make a last stand for the Whites? • The Crimea • Archangel • Vladivostok

11. 10. What was the "Czech legion"? • A platoon of soldiers guarding the Trans-Siberian Railway. • An invasion by a unit of the Austro-Hungarian Army. • A group of prisoners of war.

12. 1. Why were the US, Britain and France alarmed by the Bolshevik takeover? • The tsar had been put to death. • They feared Russia would support Germany in the First World War. • The Bolsheviks wanted world revolution.

13. 2. Who organised the Red Army during the civil war? • Trotsky • Lenin • Stalin

14. 3. What was the name of the system used to organise the whole population to provide supplies for the war effort? • War Bolshevism • War Communism • Dictatorship of the Proletariat

15. 4. What was the "Red Terror"? • The wild charges by the fanatically-loyal communist soldiers. • The murder of communist generals' families by the Whites. • The Bolsheviks putting anyone who opposed them to death.

16. 5. Where did General Miller set up a White government? • Archangel • Vladivostok • The Crimea

17. 6. Admiral Kolchak had 100,000 men and Nicholas II's treasury, so how was he defeated? • A drunken mutiny by his own officers. • A Bolshevik counter-attack. • The Czechs.

18. 7. How was General Yudenich defeated? • Trotsky inspired a counter-attack. • The Finns attacked him from the rear. • The communists took people to fight him by train.

19. 8. Why was General Denikin defeated? • Britain and France did not send any help. • The White Terror was not terrifying enough. • He ran out of money.

20. 9. Where did General Wrangel make a last stand for the Whites? • The Crimea • Archangel • Vladivostok

21. 10. What was the "Czech legion"? • A platoon of soldiers guarding the Trans-Siberian Railway. • An invasion by a unit of the Austro-Hungarian Army. • A group of prisoners of war.