This year we celebrate, on Nov. 7, the 109th anniversary of the Russian socialist revolution led by V.I. Lenin. Test what you know about that event.

1. Russia’s October 1917 Revolution

a. led to the establishment of a bourgeois Republic.
b. was supported by the allied powers fighting WWI.
c. saw the establishment of the first workers’ socialist state.
d. increased the exploitation and suffering of the Russian people.

2. When the Czar was overthrown in the February 1917 revolution

a. anarchists seized the government and called for the abolition of the state.
b. Czarist generals seized the state and established a military dictatorship.
c. a provisional government was established which continued Russia’s involvement in the war and sought to limit revolutionary action.
d. The Bolsheviks supported the provisional government and the war.

3. Lenin broke with the other left factions of the revolution before the October Revolution when he

a. called for an end to Russian involvement in the war.
b. called for the establishment of a worker’s state under the slogan “Peace, Land, and Bread.”
c. saw Russia as the weak link among the imperialist powers fighting the war, whose revolution would have to be transformed rapidly into a socialist revolution if it were to survive.
d. All of the above

4. The October Revolution led to

a. the victory of socialist revolutions in Western Europe.
b. the victory of a counter revolution.
c. the establishment of new Third International (Comintern) of socialist and anti-imperialist movements globally.
d. a socialist revolution in British colonial India.

5. Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin’s wife and a Bolshevik organizer in her own right, did most of her post-revolutionary work in which of these activities:

a. Mass literacy campaign.
b. Expansion of public libraries and reading rooms.
c. Helping organize the Young Pioneers, founded in 1922, and worked closely with the Komsomol on political education for children and young workers.
d. All of the above

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