Key Figures

Question 1

Lenin

Answer 1

Born 22nd April 1870 into a well educated family. A bolshevik, head of the bolshevik party and this continued after the bolshevik takeover in 1917. First head of the USSR

Question 2

Pyotr Stolypin

Answer 2

Born 14th April 1862. He wanted to win over peasants and suppress radicals as PM. Between 1906-1911, up to 3,000 revolutionaries executed. Assassinated 18th september 1911.

Question 3

Sergei Witte

Answer 3

Born in Georgia, 29th June, 1849. Entered russian government as director of department of railway affairs. By 1893, minister of finance. Advised the Tsar to publish the october manifesto in 1905. Resigned in April 1906

Question 4

Tsar Nicholas II

Answer 4

The last Tsar of russia, ruled from 1894 to february 1917. Considered to have a weak personality. Abdicated after huge unrest and the february revolution.