MAPS OF HISTORY · The Russian Revolution · THE QUIZ
The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924 · TEST YOURSELF
The quiz
7 questions from the atlas’s Field Exam, free to try. Answer, then read the verdict — every answer is an argument, not a flashcard.
The October Manifesto of 1905 saved the autocracy chiefly because it —
By conceding a Duma and liberties under duress, Nicholas divided a united opposition, then crushed the Moscow rising and clawed back most of the promises. A concession as a weapon.
What most directly toppled the Tsar in February 1917?
The revolution did not defeat the autocracy’s army; the army declined to defend it. Once the soldiers joined the crowd, three centuries of rule had nothing left to stand on.
Lenin’s April Theses stunned even his own party by demanding —
In April it sounded like madness; by autumn, as the war ground on and the soviets went Bolshevik, it sounded like a program. Lenin alone refused all compromise.
At Brest-Litovsk in March 1918 the Bolsheviks —
Trotsky’s “neither war nor peace” bluff failed; Germany advanced, and Lenin signed away Poland, the Baltics, Ukraine and the Caucasus — a breathing space bought at a terrible price.
The outnumbered, blockaded Reds won the civil war above all because —
Interior lines plus unity of command plus the peasant’s arithmetic: hatred of Red requisitioning lost to fear of the returning landlord. Military skill could not rescue the Whites’ politics.
The “Miracle on the Vistula” at Warsaw in August 1920 mattered because it —
Tukhachevsky’s overextended armies were routed by Piłsudski’s flank counterstroke. The Bolshevik bid to export revolution by bayonet died on the Vistula.
Lenin’s New Economic Policy of 1921 was best described as —
“We are retreating in order to make a better leap.” With Kronstadt still smoking and the Volga starving, NEP relaxed the economy — while the same congress banned dissent inside the Party.
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