Russian History Quiz 1

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1. Rasputin
2. Yuri Andropov
3. Bolsheviks
4. Aleksei Leonov
5. Gorbachev
6. 20 Million
7. 1940
8. 1991
9. Man of Steel
10. 1986
1. Who was shot 4 times, poisoned, badly beaten and finally drowned in the River Neva?
2. Who took over as President of Russia after the death of Leonid Brezhnev?
3. Which group of people overthrew the Russian government in the October Revolution of 1917?
4. Who was the first man to perform a spacewalk way back in 1965?
5. Which leader inaugurated the policies of Glasnost and Perestroika?
6. What figure is generally accepted as the number of deaths that were suffered by the Russians during World war II?
7. In which year was Trotsky assassinated?
8. In which year was the Soviet Union broken down into the Commonwealth of Independent states?
9. What was the literal translation of Stalin?
10. In which year was Mir launched into space?