APWH- Russia Post-WW1 Flashcards
name some problems with life under the czar
incompetence
czarina’s sick child- only son has hemophilia
rasputin- controversial siberian monk with mystic powers who advises the czarina while czar is gone
name some problems from ww1 in russia
poorly equipped soldiers
transportation systems are broken down
overtaxed and starving peasants
what causes the end to tsarism and when
Nicholas ll abdicated after he ordered soldiers to fire upon protesters but instead the soldiers join them
who is the leader of the provisional government
alexander kerensky
who helped lenin back from exile
germany
who was leon trotsky
lenin’s “second hand man” who was assassinated by stalin’s purge
who led the bolsheviks and what did they want
lenin; quick industrial revolution
who led the mensheviks and what did they want
julius martov; slow agricultural revolution