| A | B |
|---|
| Who were the Romanov? | Russia's royal family, executed in 1918 |
| A key post held by Trotsky in Lenin's government | Leader of the Red Army |
| Lenin died in this year | 1924 |
| Russia had two revolutions in this year | 1917 |
| Members of the Communist Party used to be called this | Bolsheviks |
| Type of leadership that emerged briefly after Lenin's death | collective |
| Stalin was rude to her | Krupskaya |
| Russia's last Tsar | Nicholas |
| Marx's term for the middle-class | bourgeoisie |
| Marx's term for the industrial working-class | proletariat |
| Mastermind of the Communist revolution | Lenin |
| Region of Russia where Stalin was born | Georgia |
| One of Stalin's nicknames | Koba |
| Lenin made this man head of his secret police | Dzerzhinsky |
| Document in which Lenin warned Communists about the power Stalin was quietly gathering great power | testament |
| The crucial post in the Communist Party | General Secretary |
| Stalin was Commissar of ....? | Nationalities |
| Stalin organised (and got credit for)this major event | Lenin's funeral in 1924 |
| Cheka | Name of secret police set up by Lenin |
| Marx believed history is all about the clash of rival ....? | social classes |
| Traditional part of Russia for exiling political prisoners | Siberia |
| Lenin's emergency plan for letting small businesses & farms make a profit while Russia's economy recovered | New Economic Policy |
| This part of the Communist Party made the key decisions for the government | Politburo |
| Two members of the left wing of the Communists who allied with Stalin against Trotsky after Lenin's death | Kamenev and Zinoviev |
| Stalin's idea that Russia should focus on building up communism in Russia before encouraging communist revolutions in other countries | Socialism in one country |
