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Complete the 1917 slogan: 'All power to the ...'
Answer: soviets
Why: Lenin pressed for power to pass to the soviets in his April Theses, presented on his return in April 1917.
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What date followed 31 January 1918 in Soviet Russia?
Answer: 14 February
Why: Until 1 July 1918, documents had to show the old Julian date in brackets after the new one.
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Where did the Bolsheviks run the October takeover from?
Answer: Smolny Institute
Why: Before 1917 the Smolny housed a school for daughters of the nobility, founded in 1764.
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What was Russia's capital in 1917?
Answer: Petrograd
Why: The capital moved to Moscow only in March 1918, when the Bolsheviks feared German troops would take Petrograd.
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Which secret police did the Bolsheviks set up in December 1917?
Answer: Cheka
Why: Its name comes from 'ChK', the Russian initials of 'Extraordinary Commission'.
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Who wrote 'Ten Days That Shook the World'?
Answer: John Reed
Why: Reed died of typhus in Moscow in 1920 and was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.