Chapter 12 Section 3-Revolution in Russia

Question 0

What is an autocracy?

Answer 0

It is a government by one ruler with unlimited power.

Question 1

What was the government and society like in Russia at the end of the 1800s?

Answer 1

Because their empire was so large, Russia’s czars ruled with absolute power, and controlled much of Russian life. Russians also had a more agricultural-based society.

Question 2

What are serfs?

Answer 2

They were agricultural workers who were considered part of their land; very similar to slavery.

Question 3

Who were the Decembrists?

Answer 3

They were a group of revolutionaries who rebelled against the government.

Question 4

What was a result of the Decembrist revolt?

Answer 4

Nicholas I crushed it, and many of the revolutionaries were sent to Siberia.

Question 5

What reforms did Czar Alexander I make to Russia?

Answer 5

He freed Russia’s serfs, and set up a new judicial system and re-organized the Army and Navy.

Question 6

What was the fate of Czar Alexander II? Who succeeded him to the throne?

Answer 6

He was assasinated by a radical group, and Alexander III replaced him.

Question 7

What were pogroms?

Answer 7

They were widespread violent attacks caused by the harsh rule of Alexander III.

Question 8

What did Nicholas II attempt to do early in his reign?

Answer 8

He tried to expand Russia and industralize it more.

Question 9

Who won the Russo-Japanese War? What was the result of this?

Answer 9

The Japanese won, and many Russiand called for change.

Question 10

What is a socialist republic?

Answer 10

It is a society where there is no private property and everyone shares everything.

Question 11

Who was Vladimir Lenin, and what did he call for?

Answer 11

He was a Marxist that called for revolutionaries to rebel against Russia.

Question 12

What happened on Bloody Sunday?

Answer 12

While trying to bring a petition to a palace, a protest group was attacked by soldiers, killing hundreds.

Question 13

What was the October Manifesto?

Answer 13

It was an actual promise for reform and a democratic government.

Question 14

What was the Duma?

Answer 14

It was an elected assembly that got the privledge to approve the laws.

Question 15

Who were the Bolsheviks, and who where they lead by?

Answer 15

They were a small Marxist group that sought to change life in Russia through revolution, and were lead by Vladimir Lenin.

Question 16

Why did the Russians struggle in World War I?

Answer 16

Their equipment was outdated, and their military was not prepared to fight a major war.

Question 17

Why did Alexandra probably rely heavily on the advice of Rasputin?

Answer 17

Her son, Alexis, had hemophilia, and whenever Rasputin was around, he would temporarily “cure” him.

Question 18

Why was Rasputin’s involvement with the royal family an embarrassment?

Answer 18

He was seen as a psychopath, and loved to do “wild things.”

Question 19

Unhappy citizens protested the lack of food and fuel in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) during the _________________________

Answer 19

February Revolution

Question 20

What happened one week after the February Revolution?

Answer 20

Nicholas II is forced to abdicate, or step down from the throne.

Question 21

Who was the provisional government lead by?

Answer 21

Alexander Kerensky

Question 22

Why did Bolshevism become known as Marxism-Leninsm?

Answer 22

after the leader Vladimir Lenin

Question 23

What group of people did the Bolsheviks want to gain power and rule Russia?

Answer 23

the proletariat

Question 24

How did the February Revolution start?

Answer 24

Unhappy citizens protested the lack of food and fuel in Petrograd

Question 25

Did the provisional government have Russia stop or continue fighting in World War I? How did the Russian people react to this decision?

Answer 25

They did, and this just grew the opposition to the government.

Question 26

Which country helped Lenin return to Russia from exile? Why?

Answer 26

Germany, they wanted to see the Russian government change.

Question 27

How did Lenin institute his Communist program in Russia?

Answer 27

He made private ownership of land illegal, giving this land to the peasants.

Question 28

Who was Leon Trotsky?

Answer 28

He was a top Bolshevik official who was sent to negotiate peace with the Central Powers.

Question 29

What treaty ended Russia’s involvement in the war?

Answer 29

the treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Question 30

Why were the Bolsheviks criticized after they agreed to the treaty ending World War I?

Answer 30

The Russian empire had to give up huge parts because of the treaty.

Question 31

Who won the Russian civil war? What was its impact?

Answer 31

the Communist Red Army; it lead to the death of millions of Russians

Question 32

What was the New Economic Policy? Why did Lenin institute this policy?

Answer 32

It stated that peasants could sell their food at a profit; it was meant to increase food production.

Question 33

What happened after Lenin died?

Answer 33

Stalin replaced Lenin