1917 revolution

Question 1

When was Lenin’s April thesis

Answer 1

3rd April

Question 2

What did Lenins speech say

Answer 2

Worldwide socialist revolution

Immediate end to the war

End to cooperation with cooperation with provisional government

Petrograd soviet to take power

Question 3

What did the Mensheviks condemn the April thesis as

Answer 3

“The ravings of a madman”

Question 4

What were Lenin’s 2 slogans from the April thesis

Answer 4

Bread, Peace and Land

All power to the soviets

Question 5

What part of the April thesis got the peasants support

Answer 5

Immediate re distribution of land

Question 6

What was the ideological justification of the April thesis

Answer 6

Lenin believed the bourgeoise were too weak to carry through with democratic revolution

Question 7

How many armed Kronstadt sailors marched in Petrograd to the Tauride palace

Answer 7

20,000

Question 8

Who was sent to calm the sailors down

Answer 8

Chernov
-seized and bundled into a car

Question 9

Who became prime minister following July days

Answer 9

Kerensky

Question 10

What issues did the provisional government face by the end of August 1917

Answer 10

Army disintegrating

Control breaking down in countryside

Increasing lawlessness

Economic situation in cities getting worse

Question 11

What did Kerensky come to the conclusion of

Answer 11

Concluded that only course open to him was to restore law and order in cities and disciple the army

Question 12

What did General Kornilov try to do

Answer 12

Saw an opportunity to crush the radical socialists

Question 13

What did Kerensky do in reaction to Kornilov

Answer 13

Panicked in the face of Kornilov’s move on the capital

Question 14

Who did Kerensky turn to for help

Answer 14

Turned to the Soviet to prevent counter revolution

Question 15

What were the consequences for Kerensky following the July days

Answer 15

Reputation irreversibly damaged

Question 16

When did the Bolsheviks storm the Winter palace

Answer 16

Units of Red guard on 24-25th October

Question 17

What factors were working in the Bolsheviks favour just before the October revolution

Answer 17

Bolsheviks had control of the Soviet

popularity was at an all time high

Liberals and other conservative forces demoralised

Provisional government was helpless, extremely unpopular

Question 18

What was the decree on land

Answer 18

Gave peasants the right to take over the estates of the gentry without compensation

Question 19

What was the decree on peace

Answer 19

Call for a truce with no annexation, no ammenities

Question 20

When was the Cheka set up

Answer 20

December 1917

Question 21

When was the Red army created

Answer 21

January 1918

Question 22

What is the ideological justification of Lenin’s actions after the revolution

Answer 22

Giving the people power as he believed in less need for bureaucracy

Stressed need for dictatorship of the proletariat

Question 23

Who did the Bolsheviks identity as “enemies of the peoples”

Answer 23

“Burzhooi”, bourgeoise

Question 24

What did they condemn the bourgeoise as

Answer 24

“parasites and blood suckers”

Question 25

What did the Bolsheviks want to the people to do to the bourgeoise

Answer 25

“loot the looters”

Question 26

How many seats had the Bolsheviks won in the constituent assembly

Answer 26

175