Quiz: Results and Prospects

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

1. 1. In Vienna in 1848, to whom did the leadership of the workers pass?

   The peasants’ deputies The students A workers’ party The liberal bourgeoisie
2. 2. What, according to Trotsky, was the effect of absolutism’s great military and financial might?

   It ruled out any Russian revolution It allowed the government a peaceful, gradual turn to parliamentarism It made revolution the only way out, and a more radical one It made the liberal bourgeoisie the natural leader of the nation
3. 3. What does Trotsky say cannot take the place of social analysis?

   Statistical tables The party programme Quotations from Marx Historical analogies
4. 4. What does the Socialist-Revolutionaries’ “socialisation of the land” amount to, in Trotsky’s view?

   Equal use of the land, the Black Repartition Return of the land to the nobility Nationalisation of the land with compensation Large state farms on the former estates
5. 5. Which view of Milyukov’s does Trotsky call “a monstrous exaggeration”?

   That absolutism in Russia was so strong that it made any revolution there impossible That in Russia the state created the estates, while in the West the estates created the state That Russian towns, like those of the West, were centres of independent handicraft That Russia never passed through feudalism at all, its land having always belonged to the commune
6. 6. Which two features of proletarian policy does Trotsky expect its allies to resist?

   Republicanism and secularism in the schools Centralism and terror Collectivism and internationalism Militarism and protectionism
7. 7. What is Trotsky’s verdict on the idea of a “dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry”?

   It is the only possible form of revolutionary government in a country where peasants are the majority It is admissible only after a European revolution has given the Russian workers outside support It should give way to a liberal coalition, since the proletariat is too weak to share in power It is unrealisable, since the peasants can neither form their own party nor be led by a bourgeois one
8. 8. Roughly what share of Russia’s population was urban at the census of 1897, according to the chapter?

   About 13 per cent About 33 per cent About half About 4 per cent
9. 9. How does Trotsky define socialism’s task in relation to psychology?

   To create a socialist psychology first, as the premise of socialist conditions of life To abolish egoism by the moral education of the workers while capitalism still lasts To reform human nature gradually within the old society, by example and propaganda To create socialist living conditions as the premise of socialist psychology
10. 10. How does Trotsky picture socialised production in its first period?

    As workers’ co-operatives replacing the state As a network of village communes As a single plan covering all industry and agriculture from the first day As oases linked to private enterprise by commodity circulation