ARSHA VIDYA MANDIR

2023-2024

Class: IX Subject: History Teacher: Bidhya Adhikari

Practice homework questions.

Chapter: socialism in Europe and Russian revolution.

Instructions:

 Write the answers in your history booklets.

 Answer the short answer questions in 2-3 lines and long answer question in 100-120 words.
 Submission date: 23rd August 2023

 Short answer type questions. ( write any 6 questions)

Question 1. How can you say that the ‘liberals’ were not ‘democrats’?

Question 2. What did Karl Marx want workers to overthrow? Why?

Question 3. Who was the ruler of Russia and its empire in 1914?

Question 4. Describe the views of radicals

. Question 5. What were the viewpoints of the conservatives?.

Question 6. Why were socialists against private property and saw it as the root of all social ills? [HOTS]
Or To what changes did the socialists campaign for? Or Explain the Socialist view on private property..

Question 7. What was the basic principle of the Marxist theory?

Question 8. Describe the incident known as ‘Bloody Sunday’.

Question 9. How did the destruction of Russian industries after the First World War become one of the
causes of resentment of people?

Or What effects did the First World War have on industry of Russia?

 Long answer type questions

Question 1. Discuss Lenin’s ‘April Theses’.

Or What were the demands referred in Lenin’s ‘April Theses’?

Question 2. What were the effects of the February Revolution in Russia?

Question 3. Mention any two changes introduced by Stalin in the Russian economy. How did Stalin deal
with the critics?

Question 4. Explain how a society, according to socialists, can operate without property. What would be
the basis of socialist society?