1906-1917 Flashcards

1
Q

Inflation after the war

A

Average earnings doubled

Price of food & fuel quadrupled

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2
Q

Men taken from the countryside for war

A

15 m

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3
Q

Troops killed or wounded 1914

A

4,000,000

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4
Q

MILITARY - patriotic support for tsar + Russian army entered East Prussia and parts of Austro-Hungarian empire

A

August 1914

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5
Q

Russia captured Austro Hungarian Fortress town of Przemysl

A

September 1914

110,000 prisoners

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6
Q

M FAILURES : Battle of Tannenburg

A

1914

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7
Q

Casualties at battle of tannenburg

A

30,000 casualties, 95,000 captured

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8
Q

Nicholas II assumed control of army

A

September 1915

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9
Q

Brusilov Offensive

A

August 1916

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10
Q

War Industries Committee

A

July 1915

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11
Q

Progressive bloc

A

236 out of 422 State Duma deputies

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12
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Inflation after war

A

200% August 1914 to December 1916

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13
Q

How much did Russia spend on war

A

17,000 m roubles

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14
Q

Poor transportation led to how many wagons of food to the capital

A

From 2,200 to 300 by 1916

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15
Q

International women’s day and putilov engineering led to how many protestors and when

A

100,000 on the 23rd February

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16
Q

Order number 1

A

Passed by all Russian soviet, troops can elect their own officers

17
Q

PG made links to soviet

A

6 members joined Pg including kerensky

18
Q

Peasants took over land by force PG 1917

A

700 complaints from land owners June 1917

19
Q

WW1 soviet conflicts with PG and publishes what and when

A

‘Address to the people of the whole world, declaring peace without annexations or indemnities’ (14 March 1917

20
Q

June offensive

A

16 June 1917

21
Q

June offensive led to

A

Mass desertions of 12,000 and the July days

22
Q

April theses where and when?

A

7th April Finland station

23
Q

Machine gunners from…. Sent to factories and military units when?

A

First Machine gun regiment , 3rd July 1917

24
Q

Workers and soldiers took over where? 1917

A

Peter and Paul fortress

25
Q

Factory workers supported Bolshevik demonstrations, when and how many?!

A

50,000 ‍‍‍ on the 4th July outside Tauride palace

26
Q

When did loyal troops arrest how many Bolsheviks at the Bolshevik HQ?

A

6th July, 500

27
Q

Kornilov affair

A

August 1917

28
Q

After Kornilov Affair Bolshevik party rose to … Members

A

200,000 with 10,000 red guards

29
Q

Lenin meets with central committee of Bolsheviks to convince them it was the right time to take power

A

10 October r

30
Q

Lenin hands planning responsibility to this group to hide Bolshevik involvement

A

Military revolutionary committee

31
Q

Of attempts to close two Bolshevik newspapers - Lenin goes to HQ to put plan into action

A

24 October 1917

32
Q

MRC announces PG’s downfall

A

25 October

33
Q

3 decrees

A

Decree on land, peace decree and decree setting up new government - Sovnarkom

34
Q

Brest-Litovsk

A

March 1918

35
Q

How much lost in Brest-Litovsk

A

1/3 of population + half of industry

36
Q

When were elections promised in 1917

A

November 1917

37
Q

What was the result of elections November 1917

A

40% SRs and 24% Bolsheviks