Return Of Lenin and Oct Rev

Question 1

Apr 1917

Answer 1

Lenin returns from Finland w/ APRIL THESES and policies like:
All power to the soviets
Peace, land and bread
All power to the peasantry

Question 2

Jun 1917

Answer 2

Kerensky, Minister of War, persuaded army to play offensive in JUNE OFFENSIVE

Question 3

3 - 6 Jul 1917

Answer 3

JULY DAYS, where Bolsheviks attempted to overthrow PG. Lenin fled the country

Question 4

Aug 1917

Answer 4

KORNILOV REVOLT, where General KORNILOV threatened to seize power and marched for military dictatorship. Country placed under martial law.

Question 5

Sep 1917

Answer 5

Bolsheviks become major party and Trotsky is elected Chairman

Question 6

7 Oct

Answer 6

Lenin returns from Finland

Question 7

10 Oct

Answer 7

Meeting for vote for Rev. Only Zveriev and Kamanev vote against.

Question 8

16 Oct

Answer 8

Military Revolutionary Committee organised by Trotsky

Question 9

23 Oct

Answer 9

Garrison agrees to support Bolsheviks

Question 10

23/24 Oct

Answer 10

Troops try to close Pravda and Izvesta, but are stopped by MRC

Question 11

24/25 Oct

Answer 11

Rev launched and bridges are seized

Question 12

25 Oct (3 times)

Answer 12

10am - Lenin’s speech “PG is no more, power to the Bolsheviks”
11.30 am - Aurora fires at Winter Palace
01.30 am - PG are captured. 6 deaths.

Question 13

Who were the Sovnarkom and who was in it?

Answer 13

The Council of People’s Commissars consisting of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Alexandra Kollontai

Question 14

What was Lenin’s role?

Answer 14

Chairman

Question 15

What was Trotsky’s role?

Answer 15

Commissar for War (from 1918)

Question 16

What was Stalin’s role?

Answer 16

Commissar for Nationalities (as he was also Georgian)

Question 17

Why was Alexandra Kollontai significant in Sovnarkom?

Answer 17

The first woman to be in power in such a way

Question 18

What policies and decrees were introduced? (4)

Answer 18

Employment insurance for the sick, Decree on Titles, Decree on Land, Decree on Marriage, non-Bolshevik newspapers banned

Question 19

What was the Okhrana rebranded as and where was the HQ? Who controlled it?

Answer 19

The Cheka from Lubyanka, Moscow by Felix Dzershinski

Question 20

How many people were killed by Cheka between 1917 and 1924?

Answer 20

More than 250,000

Question 21

What was the Constituent Assembly?

Answer 21

The Constituent Assembly decided who would govern, which Lenin did not like.

Question 22

What number of seats was won by each party in the Constituent Assembly in Nov?

Answer 22

370 - Kadets
175 - Bolsheviks
17 - SRs
16 - Mensheviks

Question 23

Why did Lenin get rid of the Assembly?

Answer 23

The SRs won more seats

Question 24

When was the Treaty of Brest Litovsk signed?

Answer 24

3 Mar 1918

Question 25

What percentage of things were lost in this Treaty? (4)

Answer 25

62 mil pop
27% farmland
26% railways
74% iron and coal

Question 26

When was the Romanov family taken to the House of Special Purpose in Ekaterinburg and under the commandment of who?

Answer 26

30 Apr 1918 under the commandment of Yakov Yurovsky

Question 27

When and how was the family executed?

Answer 27

17 Jul 1918, burnt with acid

Question 28

When did Kerensky become Prime Minister of PG?

Answer 28

8 Jun 1917

Question 29

How did the PG ultimately fail? (3)

Answer 29

They did not acknowledge national minorities
Did not take any action upon peasants seizing land
War was not stopped due to upcoming elections in Nov

Question 30

Who organised the rev?

Answer 30

Trotsky

Question 31

Give an example of a Bolshevik newspaper

Answer 31

Iskra