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Arrange the following in the chronological order
A. Formation of the Comintern
B. Founding of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
C. Beginning of the World War I
D. Bloody Sunday

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  1. DBCA

  2. BDCA

  3. ACDB

  4. BCDA

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party(1898)

Bloody Sunday(1905)
World War I (1914) and 
Formation of Comintern (1919).

The slogan "from each according to his capacity and to each according to his work" was first coined by

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  1. Proudhon

  2. Karl Marx

  3. Federick Engels

  4. Saint Simon

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Karl Marx’s wanted free access and distribution of goods and services to everyone. He believed that with this principle abundance of goods would be produced and there will be enough to satisfy everyone's needs.

The Russian Parliament is known as ___________.

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  1. Diet

  2. Duma

  3. Puma

  4. National Assembly

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The 616-member parliament, termed the Federal Assembly, consists of two houses, the 450-member State Duma (the lower house) and the 166-member Federation Council (the upper house).

What was the main demand during the 1905 revolution of Russia ?

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  1. The Tsarist monarchy be overthrown

  2. The people be assured of civil liberties

  3. A constituent assembly be formed

  4. Right to strike be guaranteed

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:
The demand for a Constituent Assembly was one of the major demands of the revolutionaries in the 1905 revolution of Russia.

Between $1905$ and $1917$, there were three revolutions in Russia. One of them abolished monarchy and another established socialism. The third established capitalist rule. Select the two that abolished monarchy and established socialism from the following

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  1. $\text{February 1917 and October - 1917}$ revolutions

  2. $\text{The 1905 and the February - 1917}$ revolutions

  3. $\text{The 1905 and the October - 1917}$ revolutions

  4. All the three revolutions abolished monarchy while the $\text{February - 1917}$ revolution established socialism

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The February- 19171917 revolution in Russia abolished monarchy while the October- 19171917 established socialism

Collectivisation measures initiated by Stalin in Russia were associated with _______.

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  1. Farmers and peasants

  2. Kaluks and Zamindars

  3. Industrialists and shopkeepers

  4. Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

During 1920s and 1930s the Soviet Union was ruled by Communist party (Bolsheviks) which does not believe in private property. After the Russian revolution the farm lands were taken over by the government and combined to form big Government owned farms where the farmers would work as laborers. This process was known as Collectivization. Its target was to improve food security, food supply to urban areas and supply of raw material to industries. Although the programme failed badly leading to famine and starvation and death of thousands of people.

Rasputin was a __________.

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  1. Spanish Explorer

  2. French King

  3. British General

  4. Serbian Monk

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Rasputin was born in a peasant family in Serbia who later took pilgrimage to a monastery and became a monk. He created social influence in Petersburg and befriended Russian rulers the Tsars. He became a healer and mentor for Tsar's son and his wife. When during First World War Nicholas II (Tsar Ruler) went to oversee Russian armies, he became very powerful in government matters. This created jealousy and enmity for him and he was finally assassinated by some noblemen in 1916 AD.

The Wages, Labour and Capital' was written by ______.

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  1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  2. Friedrich Engels

  3. Joseph Stalin

  4. Karl Marx

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

"Wage Labour and Capital" is an essay on economics by Karl Marx, written in 1847 and first published in articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in April 1849. This essay has been widely acclaimed as the precursor to Marx’s important treatise Das Kapital.

The Bolsheviks party was headed by _________.

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  1. Alexander Kerensky

  2. Stalin

  3. Leo Tolstoy

  4. Lenin

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Bolsheviks, member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power. The group originated at the party’s second congress (1903) when Lenin’s followers, insisting that party membership be restricted to professional revolutionaries, won a temporary majority on the party’s central committee and on the editorial board of its newspaper Iskra. They assumed the name Bolsheviks and dubbed their opponents the Mensheviks (“Those of the Minority”).

Which of the following was NOT typical of the Soviet Union under Stalin?

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  1. Easy access to consumer goods

  2. Collectivized agriculture

  3. Emphasis on heavy industrial development

  4. Socialist Realism as a movement in the arts

  5. Less focus on international communist goals.

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Stalin believed in rapid development of heavy industrialization and it was a key in first five year plan. It led to high demand for foods and Stalin collectivized and shortened agriculture duration. Though they struggled with the foreign relations initially due to their capitalist belief, the international community accepted them. The Russians believed in social realism.