Key Stage 3 Knowing History

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Unit 2: Rise of the dictators

Chapter 1 Marx and Russia (page 19)
1. What did Karl Marx predict would eventually happen to capitalist society?

2. Why did Marxists consider Russia an unlikely location for a communist revolution?

3. Why did a revolution occur in Russia in February 1917?

4. Why was there mass dissatisfaction with the Provisional Government in the months
following the February Revolution?

5. Why did the Bolsheviks seize power in Russia in October 1917?

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Chapter 2 The USSR (page 21)

1. Why did Western governments aid the Whites in the Russian Civil War?

2. What methods did the Bolsheviks employ in order to win the Russian Civil War?

3. Who were the main candidates for leadership of the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death?

4. What was the purpose of Stalin’s Five-Year Plans?

5. How did Stalin’s paranoia grow worse during the last years of the 1930s?

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