Russia Quiz

7 ft. tall; Built Russia’s Navy; built St. Petersburg

Peter the Great

She was called the “Enlightened Despot,” was obsessed with France and wanted to make Russia’s court as grand as France

Cathrine the Great

Leon Trotsky

Vladimir Lenin’s right hand man and was deported to Mexico after Russian revolution then assassinated by Stalin

Vladimir Lenin

Killed his opps including Nicholas the second and his family

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Ends Russias involvement in WWl

Karl Marx wrote the…

Communist Manifesto

Joseph Stalin

5 year plan, brutal dictator, collective farming which did not work

The last Tsar of Russia; Married to Alexandra; Rasputin influenced his decisions

Nicholas II

Reversed all of his fathers liberal policies; started Pogroms to kill Jewish people

Alexander III

Assassinated in 1881; liberated the serfs; eased censorship

Alexander II

Who was the first democratically elected president of Russia?

Boris Yeltsin

Glasnost

Meant openness and aimed to increase transparency and freedom of information and expression in the society union

Perestroika

Restructuring the Soviet economy by decentralizing control and allowing for more market based principles

The SU broke up in 1991?

True

The Berlin wall came down in which year?

1989

This country had a “velvet divorce” in 1993 and split into 2 separate countries…it had a “velvet revolution” in 1989- ending communist rule.

 Czechoslovakia

Josef Stalin was fearful of his opposition so he set up the NKVD. This later became known as the what?

KGB

Which leaders policies of Glasnost and Perestroika were too little too late to try and save the SU?

Mikhail Gorbachev

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels worked together to write the book The ___________ Manifesto

Communist

Who became the leader after the Russian Revolution?

Vladimir Lenin

Nickname given to Stalin’s elimination of opponents; resulted in ~20 million+ deaths

The great purges

The nickname of the Army that successfully “won” the Russian Civil War 

Red Army

The “right hand man” of Vladimir Lenin, who was deported to Mexico immediately after Lenin’s death and was killed there

Leon Trotsky

Alcoholism attributes to the shorter male longevity rate in Russia.

True

This came down in 1989, which stood for 28 years.

Berlin Wall

The peninsula was annexed to Russia in 2014 after a referendum was held.  This peninsula holds Russia’s largest Black Sea Naval base. 

Crimean

Russia has had found itself warring with rebels from which breakaway region in the early 2000’s

Chechnya

This man became the Prime Minister for Putin, after he became the President from 2008-2012

Dmitry Medvedev

This man has essentially been in control of Russia for the last 24 years.

Vladimir Putin

Focus on heavy industry over consumer goods; replaces Lenin; brutal dictator

Josef Stalin

Berlin Wall, Sputnik, “peaceful coexistence,” comes to power after Stalin 

Nikita Khrushchev

First Democratically elected leader of Russia

Boris Yeltsin

Leader who sent troops into Afghanistan; replaced Khrushchev; USA boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics during his lead

Leonid Brezhnev

Ballet was a state-sponsored art in communist Russia

true

One of Tchaikovsky’s most famous compositions is “The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” which is featured in what famous ballet?

the Nutcracker

The name of this cathedral, located in Moscow is

St. Basil’s Cathedral

Frozen soil all year round; primary soil consistency in Siberia

Premafrost

This Russian born artist created the stained glass window that is famously displayed in the UN headquarters 

Marc Chagall

Who made eggs that were gifted to the royal family?

Carl Faberge