Causes Of The October Revolution

Question 1

What were the causes of the October Revolution?

Answer 1

Dual Authority
Role of Lenin
Provisional Government Failures
Paradoxical situation
Role of Trotsky
Attack on the Provisional Government

Question 2

Who did the Provisional Government share authority with?

Answer 2

Petrograd Soviet

Question 3

What was Soviet’s Order Number 1?

Answer 3

Said all soldiers and workers should obey the PG but only when the Soviet agreed with them

Question 4

What did the April Thesis insist?

Answer 4

Bolsheviks were the only true revolutionary proletarian party

Question 5

What did the April Thesis promise?

Answer 5

End to the war
Power transferred to Soviets
All land taken over by the state and re-allocated (appealed to large proportion of peasants)

Question 6

How did Lenin persuade the Central Committee to have a revolution?

Answer 6

Bombarded them with letters demanding to prepare for revolution

Question 7

What were the failures of the Provisional Government?

Answer 7

Failed to end the war
Kornilov Affair
Land Issue

Question 8

What was the role of Trotsky in the revolution?

Answer 8

• Largely organised the revolution
• Set up the Military Revolutionary Committee with Dzerzhinsky
• Massed troops in the Bolshevik headquarters

Question 9

How many Red Guards, Baltic Sailors and Sailors of the remaining Petrograd Garrison units were under the control of the Committee?

Answer 9

200,000 Red Guards
60,000 Baltic Sailors
150,000 Petrograd Garrison Sailors