Exam 1

Question 1

April Theses

Answer 1

Lenin’s ideas following his return from exile
- end imperialist war (WW1)
- two stage revolution, need the second stage
- nationalize all land, banks, economy
- communist party, new international
- Peace, Bread, Land

Question 2

Autocracy

Answer 2

government without any limits on the Tsar

Question 3

Battle of Warsaw

Answer 3

polish-soviet war
important polish victory
miracle on the Vistula

Question 4

Battleship Potemikin

Answer 4

Military Mutiny June 14 1905
Sailors rebelled because of maggots in their food

Question 5

Bloody Sunday (1905)

Answer 5

Jan 22, 1905
peaceful protest turned massacre
St. Petersburg
Began a revolution

Question 6

Bloody Sunday 1917

Answer 6

March 11, 1917
Troops fire on protestors, 50 are killed
Causes troops to resist and join protestors because they are killing their family

Question 7

Bolsheviks

Answer 7

The “majority”
Leading party
Tightly controlled top down organization

Question 8

Brest-litovsk

Answer 8

site of the treaty that ended Russia’s participation in WW1
City under German control

Question 9

Caucasus

Answer 9

mountain region

Question 10

Cheka

Answer 10

All-Russian Extraordinary Commission,
Secret Police, outside of the law

Question 11

Communist party

Answer 11

Bolsheviks under a new name, rebranded by Lenin

Question 12

Communism and Terrorism

Answer 12

Book by Leon Trotsky
Terrorism is necessary in destroying the old regime

Question 13

Duma

Answer 13

Russia version of congress, can be dismissed by the Tsar
4 iterations

Question 14

Constituent Assembly

Answer 14

met Jan 18, 1918 following the 1917 revolution
SRs had 1/2
Bolsheviks had 1/4
was disbanded the next day

Question 15

Cossacks

Answer 15

People who are not serfs or nobles

Question 16

Czechoslovak Corps

Answer 16

were arrested, get mad and take cities from red gaurds
helped to start the civil war

Question 17

Dual Power

Answer 17

refers to the Petrograd Soviet

Question 18

Felix Dzerzhinsky

Answer 18

Cheka leader

Question 19

Eastern Orthodoxy

Answer 19

The original Russian state religion

Question 20

February Revolution

Answer 20

revolution that took place in 5 days in March. In five days they managed to install a new government

Question 21

Finnish Civil War

Answer 21

Civil war in Finland in 1918 between Finnish red and whites

Question 22

Fundamental Laws

Answer 22

Tsar agreed to share some power with a parliament

Question 23

Green Armies

Answer 23

Peasant armies for rising up against food levys

Question 24

the Internationale

Answer 24

international anthem used by various soviet and communist groups

Question 25

Ivan III

Answer 25

“The Great”
Broke from Tatars and Russia becomes independent

Question 26

Ivan IV

Answer 26

“The Terrible”
expands powers

Question 27

July Days

Answer 27

1917, protests, Bolsheviks are tarnished and Lenin goes into hiding

Question 28

Kadets

Answer 28

center-right political party

Question 29

Lev Kamenev

Answer 29

First head of state, disagreed with Lenin but stayed in power

Question 30

Alexander Kerensky

Answer 30

leader of the Provisional Government

Question 31

Alexander Kolchak

Answer 31

Anti-communist, white leader

Question 32

Kornilov Affair

Answer 32

Kerensky sided with Red Guards and other bolsheviks to protect himself because he was afraid that his War Minister was going to attempt a coup. Ended with no fight and the War minister was arrested

Question 33

Kronstadt Sailors

Answer 33

a 1921 insurrection of Soviet sailors and civilians against the Bolshevik government in the Russian SFSR port city of Kronstadt