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Key facts
Stalin's collectivisation policies caused a famine that killed millions in Ukraine.
On Bloody Sunday (22 January 1905) Imperial Guard troops shot peaceful protesters petitioning the Tsar outside the Winter Palace.
Collectivisation was Stalin's policy of forcing peasants to combine farms into large state-controlled units.
In March 1918 the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, ending Russia's fighting in WW1.
Stalin's forced policy of combining peasant farms into state-controlled units was called collectivisation.
Vladimir Lenin returned from exile to Petrograd in April 1917 and demanded "Peace, Bread, Land".
Under collectivisation, peasants were forced onto state-run farms.
Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks to power in the October 1917 revolution.
The Five-Year Plans were government plans to rapidly industrialise the USSR.
Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917 (NS) during the February Revolution after strikes, food riots and army mutinies in Petrograd.
Sample questions
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Which rival did Stalin out-manoeuvre to take Soviet leadership after Lenin's death?
- •Boris Yeltsin
- ✓Leon Trotsky
- •Mikhail Gorbachev
- •Nikita Khrushchev
What weakened Russia most during 1916 and 1917?
- •A series of natural disasters across the empire
- •Civil war between the Tsar and the British
- ✓Heavy WW1 casualties, food shortages and strikes
- •Religious schism within the Orthodox Church
What were Stalin's Five-Year Plans designed to do?
- •Build a network of churches for state worship
- •Expand Soviet farmland through irrigation
- ✓Rapidly industrialise the Soviet Union
- •Train an air force to invade Western Europe
What event in October/November 1917 brought the Bolsheviks to power?
- •Signing the Treaty of Versailles to end the world war
- ✓Storming the Winter Palace, ending the Provisional Government
- •The execution of Rasputin by Russian nobles in 1916
- •The Tsar's coronation in Moscow's Kremlin cathedral
What was 'collectivisation' under Stalin?
- •A new policy of co-operative trade with western European farms
- •Allowing peasants to own farms privately for the first time
- ✓Forcing peasants to combine farms into large state-controlled units
- •The mass migration of Russian peasants to Siberian work camps voluntarily
What was 'Bloody Sunday' (1905) in Russia?
- •A failed Bolshevik uprising in St Petersburg led by Lenin
- •A famine in Ukraine deliberately engineered by Stalin's regime
- •A massacre of Russian Jews ordered by the Tsar's secret police
- ✓Tsarist troops shot peaceful protesters outside the Winter Palace
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