AP 9th Class Social History Bits 2nd Lesson Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution
Select and write the most appropriate option out of the four options given.
Question 1.
Choose the correct statement.
A : In India Raja Rammohan Roy talked about the significance of the French Revolution.
B : In India Derozio talked about the significance of the French Revolution.
A) Only A is correct
B) Only B is correct
C) Both A and B are correct
D) Both A and B are wrong
Answer:
C) Both A and B are correct
Question 2.
Through which Revolution, Socialists became a significant and powerful Idea.
A) French Revolution
B) Russian Revolution
C) AmericaìRevoIution
D) None of these
Answer:
B) Russian Revolution
Question 3.
Who wanted a nation that can tolerate all religions?
A) Liberals
B) Radicals
C) Conservatives
D) Democrats
Answer:
A) Liberals
Question 4.
Church of England was favoured by
A) America
B) Russia
C) Spain
D) Britain
Answer:
D) Britain
Question 5.
Catholic church was favoured by
A) Austria and Spain
B) Britain and America
C) Spain and America
D) Russia and America
Answer:
A) Austria and Spain
Question 6.
Choose the correct statement,
A : Liberal argued’for a representative elected parliamentary government.
B : Liberals were democrats.
A) Only A is correct
B) Only B is correct
C) Both A and B are correct
D) Both A and B are wrong.
Answer:
A) Only A is correct
Question 7.
Women’s suffragette movement was supported by
A) Liberals
B) Conservatives
C) Radicals
D) None of these
Answer:
C) Radicals
Question 8.
Concentration of property in the hands of a few was opposed by
A) Radicals
B) Liberals
C) Conservatives
D) Democrats
Answer:
A) Radicals
Question 9.
Choose the correct matching.
1) Uncontrolled power of dynastic rulers was opposed by
2) Concept of government based on the majority of population
3) Initially idea of change was opposed by
A) Radicals
B) Conservatives
C) Liberals
A) 1 – B, 2 – A, 3 – C
B) 1 – C, 2 – A, 3 – B
C) 1 – A, 2 – B, 3 – C
D) 1 – A, 2 – C, 3 – B
Answer:
B) 1 – C, 2 – A, 3 – B
Question 10.
Suffragette means
A) Women’s movement
B) Worker’s strike
C) Suppression
D) Muslim reformers
Answer:
A) Women’s movement
Question 11.
Liberals opposed
A) Rights of individuals
B) Universal Adult Franchise
C) Representative form of government
D) Individual Rights
Answer:
B) Universal Adult Franchise
Question 12.
Common issues differed by both liberals and radicals
A) Individual rights
B) Dynastic rule
C) Property and privileges
D) Representative form of government
Answer:
C) Property and privileges
Question 13.
Idea of gradual change in society was of
A) Liberals
B) Conservatives
C) Radicals
D) Tsar Nicholas II
Answer:
B) Conservatives
Question 14.
Italian nationalist who fought for equal rights in Italy?
A) Marx
B) Stalin
C) Robert Owen
D) Giuseppe Mazzine
Answer:
D) Giuseppe Mazzine
Question 15.
Socialists
A) Supported private property
B) Favoured individual controlled property
C) Against private property
D) None of these
Answer:
C) Against private property
Question 16.
New Harmony was the idea of enterprises.
A) Louis Blanc
B) Robert Owen
C) Karl Marx
D) Stalin
Answer:
Question 18.
Who argued that industrial society was capitalist?
A) Louis Blanc
B) Robert Owen
C) Karl Marx
b) Stalin
Answer:
B) Robert Owen
Question 19.
Socialist International Body
A) Second International
B) Socialist Party
C) Socialist Democratic, Party
D) Socialist Revolutionary Party
Answer:
A) Second International
Question 20.
Party formed in 1905 in Britain
A) Socialist Party
B) Labour Party
C) Socialist Revolutionary Party
D) Second International
Answer:
B) Labour Party
Question 21.
Socialist party was established in
A) Italy
B) France
C) Russia
D) America
Answer:
B) France
Question 22.
Fall of Monarchy in Russia occurred in
A) February 1918
B) February 1916
C) February 1919
D) February 1917
Answer:
D) February 1917
Question 23.
The ruler of Russia during World War – I
A) Tsar III
B) Tsar VI
C) Tsar Nicholas II
D) Tsar Nicholas IV
Answer:
C) Tsar Nicholas II
Question 24.
Britannyisin
A) Britain
B) Russia
C) Italy
D) France
Answer:
Question 25.
Party which was established by the socialists that respected Marx’s ideas
A) The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
B) The Russian Revolutionary Democratic Party
C) The Russian Peasant Democratic Party
D) The Russian Democrats Party
Answer:
D) The Russian Democrats Party
Question 26.
Socialist Revolutionary Party was formed
A) Liberals
B) Radicals
C) Socialists
D) Conservatives
Answer:
C) Socialists
Question 27.
Leader of Bolshevik group
A) Stalin
B) Lenin
C) Karl Marx
D) Kerenskii
Answer:
B) Lenin
Question 28.
Russian Parliament
A) Winter Palace
B) National Assembly
C) Reichstag
D) Duma
Answer:
D) Duma
Question 29.
Jadidists
A) Social reformers
B) Christian reformers
C) Muslim reformers
D) Socialist leaders
Answer:
C) Muslim reformers
Question 30.
St. Petersburg was the name of
A) Germany
B) Russia
C) Britain
D) Italy
Answer:
A) Germany
Question 31.
Rasputin was
A) Prime minister
B) Socialist leader
C) Monk
D) Radical leader
Answer:
C) Monk
Question 32.
International Women’s Day was celebrated on
A) 22nd April
B) 22nd March
C) 22nd January
D) 22nd February
Answer:
D) 22nd February
Question 33.
Significant result of the February Revolution
A) Suspension of Duma
B) Abdication of Tsar
C) World War I
D) Women’s participation
Answer:
B) Abdication of Tsar
Question 34.
Prime Minister of Russia on 24th October 1917
A) Lenin
B) Stalin
C) Kerenskii
D) Rasputin
Answer:
C) Kerenskii
Question 35.
Ship which shelled the Winter Palace
A) Aurora
B) Neva
C) Titanic
D) Winter Queen
Answer:
A) Aurora
Question 36.
Cominterm was formed in
A) 1929
B) 1939
C) 1919
D) 1909
Answer:
C) 1919
Question 37.
Marseillaise was a
A) Land owner
B) Socialist leader
C) A factory owner
D) A war song
Answer:
D) A war song
Question 38.
Bolshevik Party was renamed
A) Russian Socialist Party
B) Russian Communist Party
C) Russian Democratic Party
D) The Russian Soviet Democratic Worker’s Party
Answer:
B) Russian Communist Party
Question 39.
Bolsheviks made peace with Germany at
A) Brest Litovsk
B) Petrograd
C) Moscow
D) Brittany
Answer:
A) Brest Litovsk
Question 40.
OGPU apd NKVD previously known of
A) Security force
B) Cheka
C) Kulak
D) Kolkhoz
Answer:
B) Cheka
Question 41.
Secret police of Russia
A) Cheka
B) Security force
C) Kulak
D) Kolkhoz
Answer:
A) Cheka
Question 42.
Reds were
A) Bolsheviks
B) Mensheviks
C) Non-Bolsheviks
D) Revolutionary leaders
Answer:
A) Bolsheviks
Question 43.
Greens were
A) Bolsheviks
B) Mensheviks
C) Non-Bolsheviks
D) Socialist Revolutionaries
Answer:
D) Socialist Revolutionaries
Question 44.
Whites were
A) Bolsheviks
B) Mensheviks
C) Pro-Trsarists
D) Socialist Revolutionaries
Answer:
C) Pro-Trsarists
Question 45.
Pro-Tsarists were backed by
A) Indian, British, Germany and American troops
B) French, Indian, British and Japanese troops
C) Japanese, Chinese, British and French troops
D) French, American, British and Japanese troops
Answer:
D) French, American, British and Japanese troops
Question 46.
Choose the correct answer.
A : The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party had to operate as an illegal organisation.
B : All political parties were illegal in Russia before 1914.
A) Only A is correct
B) Only B is correct
C) Both A and B are correct
D) Both A and B are wrong
Answer:
C) Both A and B are correct
Question 47.
Choose the correct statement.
A) Marx argued that Industrial Society was Captialist
B) Capitalists profit was earned from the work done by workers
C) Workers had to overthrow capitalism and the rule of private properties
D) All are correct
Answer:
D) All are correct
Question 48.
Who’was Marfa Vasileva?
A) Leader of the Revolutionaries
B) A brave worker who organised a successful strike
C) She threw a bomb at the Russian Tsar
D) All are wrong
Answer:
B) A brave worker who organised a successful strike
Question 49.
Feature of centralised planning
A) Five year plans
B) Nationalisation of Banks
C) Industries nationalised
D) Land was socialised
Answer:
A) Five year plans
Question 50.
Vladimir Lenin was succeeded by
A) Kerenskii
B) Marx
C) Stalin
D) Louis Blanc
Answer:
C) Stalin
Question 51.
Kulaks were
A) Well-to-do peasants
C) Onwers of collective farms
B) well-to-do workers
D) Muslim reformers
Answer:
A) Well-to-do peasants
Question 52.
Collectivisation was introduced because
A) fall in the psrices of grain
B) problem in grain supply
C) grains rates were fixed
D) rise in prices of grain
Answer:
B) problem in grain supply
Question 53.
Collective farms were known as
A) Kolkhoz
B) Duma
C) Kulaks
D) Speculation
Answer:
A) Kolkhoz
Question 54.
Conference of the peoples of the east was held in
A) 1917
B) 1919
C) 1920
D) 1921
Answer:
C) 1920
Question 55.
Cominterm was founded by
A) Louis Blanc
B) Mensheviks
C) Jadidists
D) Bolsheviks
Answer:
D) Bolsheviks
One word or one sentence answer questions
Question 1.
In 20th century what became fanious in shaping the society most significant and powerful?
Answer:
Socialism through the Russian Revolution.
Question 2.
Who wanted a nation that tolerate all religious?
(Or)
Who promotes individual rights?
Answer:
Liberals.
Question 3.
What was the religion favoured by Britain?
Answer:
Church of England.
Question 4.
What was the religion favoured by Austria and Spain?
Answer: Catholic Church.
Question 5.
What was opposed by liberals?
Answer:
Uncontrolled power of dynastic rulers.
Question 6.
What is Universal adult franchise?
Answer: Right of every citizen to vote.
Question 7.
In the context of Russia which group was the supporter of women suffrage?
Answer:
The Radicals.
Question 8.
What brought women and children to factories?
Answer:
Industrialisation.
Question 9.
Define suffragette movement.
Answer:
A movement to give women the right to vote.
Question 10.
How benefits can be achieved in an economy?
Answer:
Workforce in the economy was healthy and citizens were educated.
Question 11.
Who fighted for equal rights in Italy?
Answer:
Giuseppe Mazzine, an Italian nationalist.
Question 12.
What was the idea that attracted widespread attention in Europe by mid nineteenth century?
Answer:
Socialism.
Question 13.
Who were agbinst private property?
Answer:
Socialists.
Question 14.
What was industrial society according to Marx?
Answer: Capitalist.
Question 15.
What according to Marx was the natural society of the future?
Answer:
Communist Society.
Question 16.
Define SPD.
Answer:
Social Democratic Party.
Question 17.
Who formed a labour party in Britain and when?
Answer:
Socialists and trade unionists by 1905.
Question 18.
Name the workers party in France.
Answer:
Socialist party.
Question 19.
Who helped the German Social Democratic Party in winning Parliamentary seats?
Answer:
Associations formed by workers helped SPD in Germany in winning parliamentary seats.
Question 20.
When and where was the first socialist government formed?
Answer:
In Russia after the October Revolution in 1917.
Question 21.
Who was the Tsar that ruled Russia in 1914?
Answer: Tsar Nicholas II.
Question 22.
What was the major religion followed in Russian empire?
Answer: Russian Orthodox Church.
Question 23.
What was the main occupation of the Russian people in the early 20th century?
Answer: Agriculture (85%).
Question 24.
What was the main source of export earnings?
Answer: Grain was the main source of export earnings in Russia.
Question 25.
What were the prominent industrial areas in Russia?
Answer:
St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Question 26.
What was the basis on which workers were divided in Russia?
Answer:
On the basis of skill workers were divided in Russia.
Question 27.
Who were the aristocrats among the workers?
Answer:
The metal workers considered themselves aristocrats among other workers.
Question 28.
Which industries were most prone to strikes?
Answer:
The metal and textile industries were most prone to strikes.
Question 29.
What was the source of power and position of the nobles?
Answer:
Services to the Tsar was the source of power and position of the nobles.
Question 30.
What was the other name of ‘Commune’ in Russia?
Answer: Mir.
Question 31.
What was thelegal position of political parties in Russia before 1914?
Answer: Illegal.
Question 32.
What was the legal position of Russian Social Democratic Worker’s Party?
Answer: Illegal.
Question 33.
When was Russian Social Democratic Worker’s Party founded?
Answer: 1898.
Question 34.
Who formed Socialist Revolutionary Party “and when?
Answer:
Russian Socialists in 1900.
Question 35.
For whose rights Socialist Revolutionary Party struggled?
Answer:
For peasant’s rights.
Question 36.
By whom the Bolshevick group was led?
Answer:
Vladimir Putin.
Question 37.
Who were Jadidists?
Answer:
Muslim reformers within the Russian empire.
Question 38.
Who were called Cossacks?
Answer:
Horsemen in Russian army.
Question 39.
When did the Tsar allowed the creation of Duma?
Answer:
During 1905 revolution.
Question 40.
When did the Tsar dismiss the first Duma?
Answer:
Within 75 days of its creation.
Question 41.
When did the Tsar dismiss the second Duma?
Answer:
Within three months of its formation.
Question 42.
When did the war break between the two European alliances?
Answer:
In 1914.
Question 43.
After 1905 which elected representative body was formed in Russia?
Answer:
Consultative Parliament or Duma.
Question 44.
When did the Monarchy in Russia was brought down?
Answer:
In February 1917.
Question 45.
Who was Lenin?
Answer:
Lenin was the leader of Bolshevik party.
Question 46.
When did the nationalisation of industry and banks took place?
Answer:
In November 1917.
Question 47.
What was the significance of the Russian Revolution?
Answer:
Establishment of a socialist state was the significance of the Russian Revolution.
Question 48.
Who were reds?
Answer:
Bolsheviks.
Question 49.
Who were greens?
Answer:
Socialist Revolutionaries.
Question 50.
Who were whites?
Answer:
Pro-Tsarists.
Question 51.
What was the state that was created by the Bolsheviks from the Russian empire?
Answer:
USSR.
Question 52.
Name two famous socialists that introduced a communist system?
Answer:
Vladimar Lenin and Stalin.
Question 53.
Who succeeded to power after Lenin?
Answer:
Stalin.
Question 54.
Who were Kulaks?
Answer:
Well to do peasants.
Question 55.
What was Kolkhoz?
Answer:
Collective farms were known as Kolkhoz.
Question 56.
Who encouraged the colonial people to follow their power?
Answer:
The Bolsheviks.
Question 57.
When did the Conference of the peoples of the East was held?
Answer:
In 1920.
Question 58.
Who founded Cominterm?
Answer: The Bolsheviks.
Question 59.
What was the attitude of former USSR towards the movements for independence in Asia?
Answer:
USSR was against imperialism and supported independence movements occurring in Asia.
Fill in the blanks:
1. Liberals wanted a nation which tolerated all _________
Answer: religions
2. Church of England was favoured by _________
Answer: Britain
3. Austria and Spain favoured _________
Answer: Catholic Church
4. Uncontrolled power of dynastic rulers was opposed by _________
Answer: Liberal
5. Liberals were not _________
Answer: Democratic
6. Vote for women was opposed by _________
Answer: Liberal
7. Women’s suffragette movements was supported by _________
Answer: Radicals
8. Initially conservatives opposed _________ and _________
Answer: Radicals and Liberals
9. One of the most far-reaching visions of how society should be _________ structured was
Answer: Socialism
10. According to socialists the root of all social ills of the time was _________
Answer: Private proprety
11. _________ waited the government had to encourage cooperatives and replace capitalist enterprises.
Answer: Louis Blanc
12. _________ argued that industrial society was capitalist.
Answer: Karl Marx
13. To coordinate socialist efforts, socialists formed _________
Answer: the second international
14. The party formed by socialists and trade unionists in Britain _________
Answer: Labour Party
15. Socialist party was formed in _________
Answer: France
16. In. 1914 Russia and its empire was ruled by _________
Answer: Tsar Nicholas II
17. Russian orthodox Christianity had grown out of _________
Answer: Greek Orthodox Church
18. The party formed by the socialists who respected Marx’s ideas was _________
Answer: The Russian Social Democratic Worker Party
19. Bloody Sunday was also known as _________
Answer: 1950 Revolution
20. Monk who made £he autocracy unpopular _________
Answer: Rasputin
21. Nevskii Prospekt is situated in _________
Answer: Petrograd
22. Uprising of Bolshevik in Petrograd started on _________
Answer: October 24, 1917
23. After Lenin’s death the party was headed by _________
Answer: Stalin
24. Collective farms were called _________
Answer: Kolkhoz
25. The idea of a Communist Society was given by _________
Answer: Karl Marx
26. Nicholas II established _________ in 1905.
Answer: Duma
27. Economy existed in Russia before the Revolution was _________
Answer: Agriculture Economy
Match the following.
Question l.
| Column – I | Column-II |
| 1) Levin | A) Tsar of Russia |
| 2) Nicholas II | B) Leaders of Bolshevik Party |
| 3) Stalin | C) Known as father of Communism |
| 4) Karl Marx | D) Started collectivisation programme in Russia |
| 5) Robert Owen | E) Encouragement to cooperatives |
| F) New Harmony |
Answer:
| Column – I | Column-II |
| 1) Levin | B) Leaders of Bolshevik Party |
| 2) Nicholas II | A) Tsar of Russia |
| 3) Stalin | D) Started collectivisation programme in Russia |
| 4) Karl Marx | C) Known as father of Communism |
| 5) Robert Owen | F) New Harmony |
Question 2.
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Kolkhoz | A) Well-to-do farmers |
| 2) Kulkulaks | B) Muslim reformers |
| 3) Soviets | C) Horsemen in Russian army |
| 4) Jadidists | D) Collective farms |
| 5) Red Army | E) Council of workers/committees |
Answer:
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Kolkhoz | D) Collective farms |
| 2) Kulkulaks | A) Well-to-do farmers |
| 3) Soviets | E) Council of workers/committees |
| 4) Jadidists | B) Muslim reformers |
| 5) Red Army | F) Fought against Red Army |
Question 3.
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Cossacks | A) Russian Parliament |
| 2) Cheka | B) Russian feudalism |
| 3) Duma | C) Horsemen in Russian Army |
| 4) Budeonovka | D) Soviet police |
| 5) Autonomy | E) Right to govern themselves |
| F) Soviet hat |
Answer:
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Cossacks | C) Horsemen in Russian Army |
| 2) Cheka | D) Soviet police |
| 3) Duma | A) Russian Parliament |
| 4) Budeonovka | F) Soviet hat |
| 5) Autonomy | E) Right to govern themselves |
True or False:
1. Karl Marx wanted workers to overthrow capitalism. ( )
Answer: True
2. Liberals were against any kind of political or social change. ( )
Answer: False
3. Radicals believed that change should be done in a slow process. ( )
Answer: False
4. Robert Owen build a cooperative society called New Harmony. ( )
Answer: True
5. The right to govern themselves is called autocracy. ( )
Answer: False
6. Soviet leaders and Duma leaders formed a Provisional Government to run the country. ( )
Answer: True
7. Bolsheviks party was renamed as the Russian Communist Party. ( )
Answer: True
8. Pro-Tsarists means the supporters of Bolsheviks. ( )
Answer: False
9. Production increased rapidly due to Stalin’s collectivisation programme. ( )
Answer: False
10. Nobles got their power and position through their services to the Mir. ( )
Answer: Tsar
11. Socialists were active in the urban areas through the late 19th century. ( )
Answer: False
12. According to socialists, private property was the roots of all evils in the society. ( )
Answer: True
13. In Russia, Kulaks meant well to do peasants. ( )
Answer: True
Analogy:
1. Church of England : Britain :: _________ : Austria and Spain
Answer: Catholic
2. Robert Owen : English:: Louis Blanc : _________
Answer: France
3. Lenin : Bolshevik:: Kerenskii: _________
Answer: Mensheviks
4. Reds : Bolsheviks :: Pro-Tsarists : _________
Answer: Whites
5. Kolkhoz : Collective farms :: _________ : Well-to-do peasants
Answer: Kulak
6. Labour Party : Britain :: Socialist Party : _________
Answer: France