Quick Revision Notes

Question 1

What are the key governance points in regard to The Provisional Government?

Answer 1

• Prince Lvov
• Alexander Kerensky
• Duma
• Bourgeoise (Middle Class property owning class)

Question 2

What are the key governance points in regard to the Communist Government?

Answer 2

• Constituent Assembly
• Fundamental Laws 1918
• Democratic Centralism
• Sovnarkom
• Politburo
• General Secretary of CPSU
• Gosplan
• 1936 Constitution
• Nomenklatura

Question 3

What were the key political opposition groups in Russia?

Answer 3

• Marxists
• Liberals
• Octoberists
• Kadets
• Social Revolutionaries
• Social Democrats
• Bolsheviks
• Mensheviks

Question 4

What were the key internal opposition groups in Russia?

Answer 4

• Peasantry
• Proletariat
• Intelligentsia
• Students
• United Nobility
• Ethnic Minorities

Question 5

What were the key external opposition groups in Russia?

Answer 5

• Imperialist forces
• National Minorities
• Capitalism

Question 6

What were the key ethnic opposition groups in Russia?

Answer 6

• Jews
• Muslims
• Tartars (Violent Revolutionaries)
• Mongols

Question 7

What were the key national minorities opposition groups in Russia?

Answer 7

• Asiatic people’s
• Byelorussians
• Polish
• Finns
• Georgians

Question 8

What were the impacts of the Crimean War?

Answer 8

• Backwardness
• Zemstvos
• Duma
• Reforms

Question 9

What were the impacts of the Russo-Turkish War?

Answer 9

• Further awareness of national backwardness

Question 10

What were the impacts of the Russo-Japanese War?

Answer 10

• Humiliating defeat which led to the 1905 revolution

Question 11

What were the impacts of the First World War?

Answer 11

• The collapse of the economy
• Inflation
• Transport deficiencies
• Mis-direction of resources
• Food and fuel shortages
• Workers Strikes
• Peasant revolts
• Mutiny
• Tsarina and Rasputin
• 1917 revolutions

Question 12

What were the key aspects of the of the 1905 revolution?

Answer 12

• Bloody Sunday 1905
• Potemkin Mutiny
• General September Strike
• Assassination of Grand Duke Sergei
• October Manifesto
• Stolypins neckties

Question 13

What were the key aspects of the of the February 1917 revolution?

Answer 13

• Bread Riots
• Duma
• Bourgeois
• Abdication
• Provisional Government
• Dual Authority
• Petrograd Soviet
• Order No 1
• April Thesis
• July Days
• First World War

Question 14

What were the key aspects of the of the October 1917 revolution?

Answer 14

• Lenin’s ‘Peace,Land and Bread’
• Collapse of the Russian Army
• Rise of the Bolsheviks
• Red Guards
• Winter palace
• Coup d’état (a sudden violent illegal seizure of power from the government)

Question 15

What are the key governance points in regard to Tsarist Russia?

Answer 15

• Autocracy
• Council of Ministers
• Okhrana
• Cossacks
• Divine Right
• Russian Orthodox Church
• Nobles
• Hereditary Right
• Fundamental Laws of 1832 and 1906
• Duma