Quiz: Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

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

1. How does Lenin sum up his point about the republic in Germany and Russia? The working men have no country to defend Everything real is rational, and everything rational is real Truth is always concrete, never abstract The final goal is nothing, the movement everything
2. What “trifle” does Lenin say the Tiflis Menshevik forgets? The army The Zemsky Sobor The liberal press The peasantry
3. What does Lenin call the attempt to set conditions in advance for supporting bourgeois democrats? The theory of the two stages The theory of “from below only” The theory of the “marsh” and the “swamp” The theory of the “litmus paper”
4. What kind of assembly did the tsarist government appear willing to grant, according to reports of the Bulygin commission? A constituent assembly elected by universal suffrage A Soviet of workers’ deputies No assembly of any kind A consultative assembly on a narrow franchise
5. What does Lenin say this dictatorship will be unable to do without intermediate stages? Establish a republic Give the land to the peasants without redemption Affect the foundations of capitalism Spread the revolution to Western Europe
6. Which formula of Martynov’s from the “Economist” period does Lenin recall? “The final goal is nothing, the movement is everything” “The economic struggle against the employers and the government” “The party of extreme revolutionary opposition to the government” “Rights and an authoritative Zemstvo”
7. In the socialist revolution, which ally does Lenin assign to the proletariat? The liberal bourgeoisie The mass of the semi-proletarian elements of the population The army officers The whole peasantry, including the rich peasants and kulaks
8. Which article by Struve does Lenin analyse in chapter 8? “The Tasks of the Liberal Party” “How to Find Oneself” “The Zemsky Sobor and Our Tactics” “Two Dictatorships and the People”
9. What does Lenin say Russia has in abundance although it has no parliament? Parliamentary cretinism Political parties of every shade Free newspapers Constitutional lawyers and jurists
10. What programme should the provisional revolutionary government carry out, according to Lenin? The whole minimum programme of the party Only the convening of a constituent assembly The Union of Liberation’s programme The maximum programme of socialism
11. What objection to the slogan of the democratic dictatorship does Lenin answer? That the bourgeoisie already holds power That the peasantry is too scattered and backward to matter in the revolution That a dictatorship presupposes a single will, which workers and petty bourgeois lack That a dictatorship is incompatible with the convocation of a constituent assembly
12. When, according to Mehring, did Marx and Engels declare themselves in favour of a separate workers’ organisation? In June 1848, when the Neue Rheinische Zeitung was founded In April 1849 In March 1850 In 1864, at the founding of the International
13. Why did the Caucasian Mensheviks oppose entering a provisional government? The Tsar had already granted a constitution by the manifesto of August It would require an alliance with the anarchists and the Socialist-Revolutionaries The peasants opposed any government It would make the bourgeois classes recoil and weaken the revolution’s sweep
14. In what sense does Lenin say a bourgeois revolution is more advantageous to the proletariat than to the bourgeoisie? It will immediately abolish private property in land and in all the means of production The bourgeoisie wants to keep old remnants, like the monarchy, to use against workers It will end the class struggle by giving workers equal political rights It will hand state power to the Social-Democrats as the most consistent democrats of all
15. For what did the Neue Rheinische Zeitung reproach Camphausen in 1848? For dissolving the Prussian National Assembly by force For abolishing the feudal dues without compensation For not acting dictatorially to smash the remnants of the old institutions For signing a peace treaty with Russia

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