Quiz: The April Theses

8 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. 1. What does Thesis 7 propose for the banks?

   Their abolition and the replacement of money by labour notes Immediate merger into one national bank under Soviet control Their transfer to the Provisional Government Taxation of their profits for the war
2. 2. What does Thesis 3 call the “demand” that the Provisional Government cease being imperialistic?

   The party’s chief slogan Illusion-breeding Premature A useful first step
3. 3. What would a return to a parliamentary republic be, according to Thesis 5?

   The necessary next stage A step backward from the Soviet of Workers’ Deputies Acceptable if the Bolsheviks won a majority The aim of the Constituent Assembly, which Lenin supports
4. 4. What position does Thesis 4 say the Bolsheviks hold in most Soviets?

   No seats at all, having boycotted the elections A minority, and a small one Half the seats, in a bloc with the Mensheviks A narrow but secure working majority
5. 5. Which is not one of the conditions for supporting a revolutionary war?

   That there be a complete break with all interests of capital That all power pass to the proletariat and the poorest peasants That all annexations be renounced in deeds That the Constituent Assembly first approve the war
6. 6. What does Thesis 4 call the Soviet of Workers’ Deputies?

   A temporary strike committee of the Petrograd workers A rival to be dissolved An organ of the bourgeoisie The only possible form of revolutionary government
7. 7. To whom did Lenin hand the written text of his theses?

   Plekhanov Chkheidze Tsereteli Kerensky
8. 8. What limit does Thesis 5 put on officials’ salaries?

   Twice the pay of a private soldier at the front None; salaries are to be abolished entirely The average wage of a competent worker The salary paid to a deputy of the State Duma