Question | Answer | % Correct |
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Person that succeeded Lenin as leader of that country | Joseph Stalin | 97%
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New country that Lenin became the first leader of in 1922 | Soviet Union | 95%
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City that was named Leningrad from 1924–1991 | St. Petersburg | 94%
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Name a country which declared independence from Russia between 1917–1918 | Belarus | Estonia | Finland | Georgia | Latvia | Lithuania | Poland | Ukraine | 93%
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War that Lenin pulled Russia out of | World War I | 93%
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Faction of that party he came from (hint: starts with B) | Bolshevik | 89%
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Political party which Lenin led | Communist Party | 88%
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Country that sent Lenin back to Russia in a "sealed train" in an effort to destabilize it | Germany | 84%
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National system of prison and slave labor camps established in 1918 | Gulag | 82%
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Last tsar of Russia, executed in 1918 | Nicholas II | 80%
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Type of disaster which killed about 5 million people in 1921–1922 | Famine | 76%
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Person that Lenin supposedly wanted instead | Leon Trotsky | 71%
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Army which fought against Lenin during the Russian Civil War | {White} Army | 64%
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Plaza in Moscow where Lenin's embalmed body can be viewed | Red Square | 57%
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Country that Lenin was living in before returning to Russia in 1917 | Switzerland | 51%
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Group of wealthy peasants who Lenin persecuted (hint: starts with K) | Kulaks | 32%
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Campaign of political persecution which killed an estimated 100,000–200,000 political enemies | Red {Terror} | 32%
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Lenin's real name | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | 26%
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Secret police established in 1918 (starts with C) | Cheka | 20%
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Woman who shot and wounded Lenin in 1918 | Fanny Kaplan | 7%
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