Bolshevik seizure of power

Question 1

Who opposed Lenin’s plans for a revolution

Answer 1

Zinoviev and Kamenev.
Mensheviks and SR’s

Question 2

How many members were there in the Military Revolutionary council, and how many were Bolshevik

Answer 2

66, 48 were Bolshevik

Question 3

What was a constituent assembly

Answer 3

An elected parliament whose aim was to write a constitution

Question 4

Who was the prime minister of the provisional goverment

Answer 4

Prince Lvov

Question 5

What was the role of the zemstva during the war

Answer 5

sending materials and medical supplies to the war front, organising civil duties.

Question 6

Who were the strongest group in the provisional government?

Answer 6

Kadets, led by Milyukov

Question 7

Where did the provisional government meet

Answer 7

Tauride palace

Question 8

What was the aim of the petrograd soviet

Answer 8

to protect workers interests and challenge the provisional government

Question 9

how many members did the soviet initially have?

Answer 9

1300

Question 10

Who dominated the petrograd soviet

Answer 10

The Mensheviks

Question 11

What was the Soviet Order No. 1

Answer 11

all areas of military should appoint committees
Duma orders only carried out when not contradicting soviets order
Arms shouldn’t be handed to officers
honorary titles removed

Question 12

What was the situation where both Duma and soviet were ruling

Answer 12

Dual power

Question 13

What did lenin publish when he returned to Russia and what did these outline

Answer 13

April thesis- Bolshevik policy: all power to the Soviets, peace bread and land.

Question 14

What was contained in Soviet order No.1

Answer 14

soldiers form committees, no rank, maintain control of their weapons and only obey the state duma if it did not contradict the soviet.

Question 15

Who was the only person in both the duma and the ptg soviet

Answer 15

kerensky

Question 16

When was the Kornilov affair

Answer 16

September 1917

Question 17

What was the Kornilov affair

Answer 17

Disagreement between Kerensky and leading officer, Kornilov. Kornilov leads army towards Petrograd. Kerensky fends him off and has him arrrested

Question 18

How did kerensky put down the Kornilov affair and why did this affect him negatively.

Answer 18

He armed Bolshevik militias which would later oust him in the October revolution

Question 19

What outcomes did the bolsheviks gain from the kornilov affair

Answer 19

164% increase in support. 10000 armed ‘red guards’. lack of support for kerensky. mensheviks and SR seen as associates of kerensky

Question 20

how many bolsheviks were armed to put down kornilov

Answer 20

10000

Question 21

What were the july days

Answer 21

a series of riots in which the bolsheviks were blamed for causing unrest and many leading bolsheviks, such as trotsky .

Question 22

What was the problem faced by the pg with land

Answer 22

peasants had stared forcibly undergoing ‘land transfers’ wherein they seized land from wealthy land owners due to little repercussions from the government, however, the bolsheviks promised to allow this transfer.

Question 23

Who opposed the October revolution

Answer 23

Zinoviev and Kamenev

Question 24

Who oversaw the military side of the october revolution

Answer 24

MRC- military revolutionary committee- 66 members- 48 bolshevik- led by trotsky

Question 25

how many red guards, sailors and soldiers were controlled by the MRC

Answer 25

200000 red guards, 60000 sailors 150000 soldiers

Question 26

Which naval base rebelled to join the Oct rev and what ship did they bring

Answer 26

Kronstadt, the Aurora

Question 27

How did the MRC take control of the government`

Answer 27

Siege of the winter palace, took a long time, but faced little resistance. eventually stormed, arrested pg and established soviet control

Question 28

when did the MRC claim control over the nation

Answer 28

26th OCtober 1917

Question 29

When was the lena goldfields massacre

Answer 29

1912