Modern History ATAR Y12: Stats, Quotes, and Dates

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Russo-Japanese War

Feb 1904-1905

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The Treaty of Portsmouth

September 1905

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Bloody Sunday

9th January 1905

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How many people marched in Bloody Sunday?

100,000 people

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How many people died in Bloody Sunday?

Up to 200 people were killed by Cossack troops

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The October Manifesto

October 1905

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The Fundamental Laws

Issued only 6 months after the October Manifesto in April of 1906

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The first Duma was dissolved only __ months after first meeting, because…

2 months; because they were unhappy with the Fundamental Laws, being made up of Mensheviks and SRs.

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How the Duma elections were rigged

It would take only 230 votes from a landowner to get someone elected into the Duma, however it would take 60,000 peasant votes and 125,000 proletariat votes.

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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

June of 1914

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Russia would declare war on Germany and Austria on…

1st of August 1914

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When did the Tsar declare himself Commander-In-Chief?

September of 1915

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The ‘ministerial leapfrogging’ in government: statistics

Internal Affairs: 5
Prime Minister: 4
Agriculture: 4
Foreign Affairs: 3
War: 3
Transport: 3

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The Russian army had ___ soldiers, but only ___ rifles to give them.

5 million, 4.6 million

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February Revolution: Dates

23rd February - 3rd March

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The Tsar’s abdication

2nd of March 1917

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Order No. 1

March 1st, 1917

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The April Theses

April 7th 1917

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The Summer Offensive

June-July 1917

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When did anarchy in the countryside begin?

May 1917

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During the Summer of 1917, ___ instances of land seizure occurred.

240

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The Provisional Government aimed to incentivise selling of grain by … which didn’t work because …

…increasing the amount of money they purchase grain for by 100% … the peasants had nothing to use this money for due to a lack of consumer goods.

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The July Days - date and stat

Trotsky speech on July 2nd, 500,000 people violently demonstrated against the PG

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The Kornilov Affair

Late August

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October Revolution

23rd to 25th October 1917

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___ was Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, and in ___ ___% of the seats belonged to the Bolsheviks, ___% in the Moscow Soviet, as well as holding a majority in ___ other Soviets in large industrial cities.

Trotsky, November 1917, 90%, 60%, 80

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In the elections for the Constituent Assembly, SR’s got ___%. The Bolsheviks got ___% of the vote.

38%, 23%

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In the first ___ months of Bolshevik rule, Sovnarkom issued ___ decrees.

6 months, 116

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Peace Decree and Land Decree

25th of October

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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on…

…March 3rd, 1918

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7 countries / states lost to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  • Ukraine

  • Poland

  • Finland

  • Georgia

  • Lithuania

  • Latvia

  • Estonia

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Russia lost ___ of their iron and coal reserves and ___ of their population to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, as well as over a ___ square miles of land

three quarters, a third, a million

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The Tsar’s family was executed on…

17th of July 1918

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The Civil War: Dates

November 1917 to October 1922

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By ___ there were ___ men in the Red Army, however by ___ there had also been ___ deserters.

1920, 5 million, 1921, 4 million

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When was War Communism?

1918-1921

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As early as ___, bread rationing had reached an all-time low of ___ per day.

1918, 50 grams

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The 1921 famine claimed between ___ and ___ lives.

5 and 6 million

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Less than ___ of food came from rationing - the rest came from ___.

A third, the black market

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Official records put the death count at the hands of the Cheka at ___, with modern estimates believing it to be closer to ___.

13,000, 500,000.

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Lenin’s orders to quell anarchy in the countryside

He ordered ‘no fewer than a hundred kulaks, bloodsuckers, and rich-bags to be hung in full sight of the people’.

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Kronstadt Revolt: Date

1st to 18th March 1921

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The 10th Party Congress: Date

8th to 16th of March 1921

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In Petrograd the death rate had increased ___ during the age of ___.

Fourfold, War Communism

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In ___, industrial output was ___% of its ___ level.

1921, 16%, 1912

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Between ___ and ___, grain harvests had increased by over ___%.

1920, 1926, 100%

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By ___, ___% of industry was under the operation of the vesenkha.

1919, 80%

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When was Nomenklatura established?

1923

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Lenin’s Death + Funeral (Date)

January 1924

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____ people lined up to view Lenin’s body lying in rest.

3.5 million

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When was Lenin’s Last Will and Testament

Scribed in 1923

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___ people voted in favour of releasing the Last Will and Testament, whereas ___ people voted against releasing it.

10, 44

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The First Five Year Plan: Date

October 1928 to the end of 1932

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During the first Five Year Plan, coal, steel, and pig iron all increased by ___ times.

1.8x

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The Second Five Year Plan: Date

1932 - 1937

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During the Second Five Year Plan, ___ production ___ and ___ production increased by ___ times.

coal, doubled, pig iron, 2.5 times

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The Third Five Year Plan - Planned and Actual Dates

Planned: 1938 - 1943

Actual: 1938 - June of 1941

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In Germany, only ___ of all German workers worked in a factory with over a thousand men in employment. In Russia, nearly a ___ of workers worked in factories of this size.

8%, quarter

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The Great Dnieper Dam increased Russian electrical output ___.

Fivefold

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In ___, the Gulag population totalled ___ inmates, increasing rapidly during ___.

1936, 5 million, the Terror

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In 1930, the average worker in the coal industry turned over ___ jobs per year

3

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Stakhanovite dug out ___ times his quota.

14

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In mid-1929, only __% of peasants worked on collective farms. Stalin aimed to collectivise __% of grain-producing areas by the end of 1930.

5%, 25%

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By ___, __% of peasant households had been collectivised

1936, 90%

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Produce levels remained ___ pre-collectivisation numbers until ___.

Below, 1935

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Over the course of the ____, state procurement of grain more than ___.

First Five Year Plan, doubled

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Robert Conquest theorised that ___ people died as a result of the Holodomor

7 million

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Prior to Stalin, party membership never rose above __% of the total Russian population.

5%

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The Shakty Trial: in ___, ___ engineers were accused with conspirring to sabotage the economy. __ of them were shot and __ sent to labour camps.

1928, 53, 5, 44

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__% of the party was purged throughout 1930.

20%

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The Chitska

1928-33

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The 17th Party Congress: Year

1934

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Kirov’s Murder: Full Date

1st of December 1934

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The Terror: Dates

September 1936 to November 1938

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The Three Major Show Trials: Dates and Victims

1936: Zinoviev and Kamenev
1937: Pyatakov and Radek
1938: Rykov, Bukharin, and Yagoda

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Date when Yezhov replaced Yagoda

September of 1936

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NKVD Order 00447 Date

July 1937

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Approximately ___ people were arrested as a result of Order 00447, with initial quotas being only ___ people.

800,000, 250,000

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  • __% of Central Committee members elected in the 17th Party Congress were shot due to their …

  • __ generals, who were all extremely experienced heroes of the Civil War, were shot

  • Robert Conquest estimates that between __ and __ million people were executed

70% … allegiance to Kirov

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__% of divorces were initiated by men, and only __% were mutual.

70%, 7%

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Abortion rates rose greatly and birth rates were dropping. Women were also often pressured into abortions by their partners. In 1934, there were __births per ____people, and __ abortions per ____.

16, thousand, 42, thousand

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In ___ the cost of funding nationwide creches, kitchens, and kindegartens were calculated and they totalled ____.

1922, more than the entire national budget

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The Family Code of ___

1936

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Failures of the Great Retreat

  • The divorce / marriage ratio was not much better than in 1934

  • Birth rate only slightly increased

  • Household desertion by fathers remained a huge issue

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The Liquidation of Illiteracy - date

1919

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The illiteracy rate in ___ was nearly __%.

1919, 65%

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Education was not a valid vehicle for spreading Communist values because only __% of teachers were Communist

5%

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The Decree on the Separation of Church and State - date

January 1918

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By the end of the ___, __% of village Churches had closed

1930s, 80%

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The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact: Year

1939

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Germany had a massive invading force of ___ people, which was…

3 million, the largest to that point

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By ___, German forces had captured an area …

mid-1941, twice the size of Germany.

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The siege of Leningrad: dates

Late 1941 to early 1944 - nearly 900 days

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Fall of Kiev - Date

Late / September 1941

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The successful Soviet counter-attack was during ___. The Soviet forces were able to force back Axis forces as far as ___ km in some cases.

December, 300 km

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Battle of Stalingrad: Date

July 1942 - February 1943 / mid-1942 to early 1943

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Order 227 - date

Issued in July 1942

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After the Battle of Stalingrad, ___ Germans were killed and ___ taken prisoner.

200,000, 90,000.

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Approximately ___ factories were relocated to the east of the Urals by the end of 1941, and ___ new enterprises were developed.

1,500, 3,500

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A ___ of trucks were from foreign countries.

Third