Statistics Russia and Revolution AQA A-Level History Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded

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Statistics 1917-1953 Russia and Revolution AQA A-Level
History Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest Update
/ Already Graded
1914-1917

Ans: Petrograd's population increased from 2.1 million to 2.7 million


1917

Ans: Inflation at 200%


January 1917

Ans: Petrograd only got 48% of total grain requirements


October 1917

Ans: 5% of all Petrograd workers/soldiers involved in the power coup (25-
30,000) accroding to Trotsky


16 October 1917

Ans: 48 of the 66 MRC members were Bolsheviks


November 1917

Ans: 7 left-wing SRs joined Sovnarkom


November 1917

Ans: Bolsheviks made up 24% of Constituent Assembly with 175 seats in the
election -- SRs won 40%




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1918-1920

Ans: Deaths by Cheka officially 13,000 but closer to 300,000


January 1918

Ans: 12 civilians killed in demonstrations against the closure of the Constituent
Assembly


Spring 1918

Ans: 800 "enemies of the state" shot by Cheka without trial


3 March 1918

Ans: Russia lost 2 million square km of land (made up 1/3 of Russia's agricultural
produce), 26% of railway lines and 74% of iron ore and coal supplies under the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, as well as paying 3 billion roubles to help German war
reparations


March 1919

Ans: 50 delegates from Europe, USA, Australia and Japan attended First
Comintern Conference


1920-1926

Ans: 5 million European Russians took literacy courses


1920

Ans: 5% population in Moscow prisons children


End of 1920



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