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. After the Bolsheviks’ October Revolution, Aleksandra Kollontai became the People’s Commissar of Social Welfare and

was quickly overwhelmed by the tasks of providing social welfare to an immense population correct incorrect

successfully focused her efforts on liberating women from their traditional roles in the home correct incorrect

was quickly ousted due to her support of the “workers’ opposition,” an effort to create an independent trade union movement correct incorrect

advocated free love and communal child-rearing correct incorrect

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. In order to advance their ultimate goal of a socialist revolution, Russian Marxists

assassinated Czar Alexander II correct incorrect

promoted anti-Jewish pogroms correct incorrect

attempted to foment rebellion among the peasantry correct incorrect

promoted capitalism correct incorrect

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. Lenin believed that Russia could bypass its capitalist phase and move directly to socialism if

it had a political “vanguard” of dedicated revolutionaries correct incorrect

it was an industrializing but still agrarian country correct incorrect

the people were sufficiently dedicated correct incorrect

the war ended immediately correct incorrect

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. The “Great Reforms” of the 1860s

freed Russian peasants from bondage correct incorrect

were advocated by the precursors of the Bolsheviks, but failed to be implemented correct incorrect

ended up tying Russian peasants to their villages in much the same way they had been bound to their lords correct incorrect

consolidated land ownership among the elite correct incorrect

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. After a massive general strike in St. Petersburg in 1905, the czar

sent in the military to break up the protests, exiling leaders to Siberia correct incorrect

distracted the populace with a series of anti-Jewish pogroms correct incorrect

issued the October Manifesto, which granted Russians civil liberties and established a Duma with real legislative powers correct incorrect

attempted to mollify strikers with a purely advisory Duma with no real power correct incorrect

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. After seizing power, Lenin made a number of popular reforms, including

taking farmland from the nobles and redistributing it to the poor correct incorrect

moving to the Julian calendar correct incorrect

forbade employers to dismiss pregnant women or mothers of young children correct incorrect

established universal suffrage correct incorrect

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. During the five-year plans, government officials claimed that declining fertility and other social problems such as teenage delinquency, growing alcoholism, and the abandonment of children were due to

the corrupting influence of the West correct incorrect

a lack of education among the peasantry, which only the new regime could address correct incorrect

the new ease of divorce and women’s growing economic independence correct incorrect

the strain manual labor placed on women, who were more delicate than men and less suited to work correct incorrect

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. In the 1860s and 1870s, agricultural growth was hampered by

the fact that farms were typically composed of several separate strips of land, instead of one contiguous farm correct incorrect

the massive migration of peasants from rural areas to the cities correct incorrect

an unwillingness to adopt agricultural improvements developed abroad correct incorrect

a move toward industrialization, which drew workers away from the fields correct incorrect

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. The strike started by 7,000 women on International Women’s Day in Petrograd resulted in

the abdication of the czar correct incorrect

the assassination of the czarina’s advisor, Rasputin correct incorrect

the establishment of the Duma correct incorrect

equal property rights for women correct incorrect

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. The economic system the Lenin instituted to encourage agricultural production after the civil war was called

War Communism correct incorrect

Modern Mixed Economics correct incorrect

Marxism-Leninism correct incorrect

New Economic Policy correct incorrect

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. In the late 19th century, worker-peasants were unafraid to go on strike because

the demand for workers was so high they could easily find work in another factory correct incorrect

they had village homes to return to in case of a long work stoppage correct incorrect

factory owners were unwilling to suffer the monetary losses brought on by long work stoppages correct incorrect

the government feared an uprising among the peasants and so worked to mollify them correct incorrect

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. After taking control of Russia, the Provisional Government wanted

to continue Russia’s involvement in World War I, but only to preserve Russia’s borders correct incorrect

to continue Russia’s involvement in World War I, but also to pursue expansionist war aims in the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe correct incorrect

to pull Russian troops out of World War I immediately correct incorrect

to continue Russia’s involvement in the war, but only with the support of the people correct incorrect

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. Stalin believed that the way forward for Russia after Lenin’s death was

to encourage revolutions abroad and to develop genuine socialism in Russia by promoting heavy industry correct incorrect

to leave other countries to their own devices and allow the country to evolve gently but steadily toward socialism by maintaining Lenin’s policies correct incorrect

to leave other countries to their own devices and build “socialism in one country” using Russia’s own resources, while also promoting heavy industry correct incorrect

to permit additional capitalistic activities to encourage agricultural production correct incorrect

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. The best educated members of the Russian middle and upper classes were called the

Bolsheviks correct incorrect

zemstvos correct incorrect

Marxists correct incorrect

Intelligentsia correct incorrect

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. The Provisional Government made three key mistakes. Which of the following was not one of those mistakes?

it failed to hold early elections for a constituent assembly to write a constitution correct incorrect

it allied with and trusted the Soviet Executive Council correct incorrect

it took no significant steps to alleviate the people’s misery correct incorrect

it tried to pursue an unpopular war correct incorrect

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. In response to Stalin’s efforts to collectivize the country’s farmland, peasants

fled Russia correct incorrect

burned crops and killed livestock correct incorrect

went on strike correct incorrect

marched on Petrograd correct incorrect

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. The metallurgical plant at Magnitogorsk was hampered by

a lack of coal to fire the plant, due to the decision to give mining and railroad building lower priority than metallurgy correct incorrect

a lack of raw materials, due to poor planning in choosing the plant’s location correct incorrect

constant labor strikes correct incorrect

shoddy construction, leading to cheap, brittle steel correct incorrect

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. The class of people considered “good Soviet citizens” was the

proletariat correct incorrect

bourgeois intelligentsia correct incorrect

kulaks correct incorrect

Bolsheviks correct incorrect