OCTOBER rev 1917

Question 1

how many bolshevik members 1917

Answer 1

200,000

Question 2

how many bolshevik newspaper September

Answer 2

41 e.g. Pravda

Question 3

how did bolsheviks gain greater influence

Answer 3

numbers attending soviets fell overall – but bolsheviks attend

Question 4

bolshevik red guard numbers

Answer 4

10,000 following Kornilov Affair

Question 5

main prov gov problems

Answer 5

-disentegrating army following July southern offensive - soldiers refuse to leave trenches

Question 6

prov gov social problems

Answer 6

urban workers expected better conditions after tsar fell but not met by prof gov

Question 7

which Bolsehvik leaders opposed Lenin and his revolution

Answer 7

Zinoviev and Kamenev

Question 8

how many votes did Lenin win by

Answer 8

10 votes to 2 ==> bolsheviks need to begin seizing power

Question 9

what was Trotskys role in planning revolution

Answer 9

-torstky plans revolution to coincide w/ congress soviets October 26 ( later trusty written out by Stalin)

Question 10

what did control of the MRC give Bolsehviks

Answer 10

access to weapons + ammunition

Question 11

what did Kerensky attempt to do leading to October

Answer 11

close down Bolsehvik newspapers restrict MRC

Question 12

result of Kerensky restricting soviets

Answer 12

fuels idea betrays feb rev - flees

Question 13

October revolution events of seizure

Answer 13

-trotsky orders red guard to seize key Petrograd bridges + sailors on Avrora Battleship fire cannons

Question 14

nature of Winter Palace seizure

Answer 14

-no casualties = signifies lack of support for pro gov

Question 15

Lenin’s seizure power

Answer 15

Mensheviks + SR storm out - Cheka set up LENIN CONTROLLING

Question 16

evidence of kronsdtat rising for bolshevik support

Answer 16

20,000 armed sailors demand soviet power

Question 17

but why should krondstat not be taken as soviet

Answer 17

-sailors soviet chaired by an SR - not just bolsheviks

Question 18

what is soviet view of 1917 revolution

Answer 18

-popular uprising - working class creates soviets - power bases on which revolution accomplished

Question 19

Moscow municpal elections - bolsehviks July to October 1917

Answer 19

11% to 51% - peasants become politicised under conditions

Question 20

overall op on 1917 revolution

Answer 20

-bolsehviks became figurehead of opposition to pro gov