Chapter 4- Radical Parties

Question 0

When was the social democrat party created?

Answer 0

1898

Question 1

When did the populist movement appear?

Answer 1

The 1860’s

Question 2

When was the social revolutionary party created?

Answer 2

1901

Question 3

When did the split in the social democrat party occur

Answer 3

1903

Question 4

Which two parties did the social democrats split in to?

Answer 4

The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks

Question 5

Who were the leading thinkers of the populist movement?

Answer 5

Peter lavrov and Nikolai chaikovsky

Question 6

What did the populists do?

Answer 6

Went out in to the country side to educate the peasants to try and get them to become involved and start a revolution

Question 7

Why did the populist movement fail?

Answer 7

The peasants were not interested

Question 8

What happened to the populist movement in 1879?

Answer 8

They adopted more extreme tactics, and formed the peoples will

Question 9

Which two parties did populism eventually lead to foundation?

Answer 9

Social revolutionaries and social democrats

Question 10

Where did the SR believe Russia’s future lay?

Answer 10

With the peasantry

Question 11

Who led the SR

Answer 11

Viktor Chernov

Question 12

What did the SR promise peasants?

Answer 12

That all of them would be given their own land, without compensating the previous owners

Question 13

Who were the anarchists?

Answer 13

Members of the SR who disliked central political authority and wanted independent peasant communes. They formed a terrorist group that was similar to the peoples will, and assassinated the grand duke Sergei in 1905.

Question 14

Which group became an SR stronghold in the 1905 revolution?

Answer 14

The all Russian Union of peasants

Question 15

Where did the social democrat party look to help form their ideas on how Russia ought to be ruled?

Answer 15

Marxism

Question 16

When did the second party congress of the SD occur?

Answer 16

1903

Question 17

Who led the Bolsheviks?

Answer 17

Lenin

Question 18

What did the Bolsheviks believe about membership?

Answer 18

It should be limited to dedicated revolutionaries only

Question 19

What did the Mensheviks think about membership?

Answer 19

It should be open to anyone sympathetic with the parties aims

Question 20

Who led the Mensheviks?

Answer 20

Martov

Question 21

What was the name of the political newspaper made by Lenin and martov?

Answer 21

The iskra

Question 22

What was the union of liberation?

Answer 22

In 1901, some Russian liberals who had been exiled to Germany established a newspaper called liberation, which supported the idea of a constitutional monarchy.

Question 23

What did the octobrists want?

Answer 23

The preservation of the unity of the Russian state, with better rights for everyone. They supported the tsar.

Question 24

What did the October manifesto promise?

Answer 24

The tsar would share political power in national government. A suggestion of the creation of a national parliament

Question 25

What did the kadets think?

Answer 25

The October manifesto was the beginning, not the end, of political reform. They wanted social and political equality, freedom of speech and elections

Question 26

What were the two main groups that the liberals were divided in to?

Answer 26

The octobrists and the kadets