Russia

Question 1

Causes of the 1905 revolution

Answer 1

Long term - lack of rights, food shortages, high taxes, working conditions, low pay and living conditions
Short Term - Russo-Japan war (angered people even more)
Spark - Bloody Sunday

Question 2

Results of the 1905 revolution

Answer 2

Duma
Political parties
Free press

Tsar controls all of these

Question 3

Impact of WW1 - Homefront

Answer 3

Unemployment 
Fuel,food and supply shortages 
Mass poverty
Land grabs
Tsar blamed for defeats 
Tsarina and Rasputin

Question 4

Impact of WW1 - War front

Answer 4

Desertions
Lack of ammo and supplies
Poor leadership 
Low morale/High Casualty rate
Defeats 
Awful conditions - weather

Question 5

Causes of the 1917 February revolution

Answer 5

Long term - distrust of the tsar, tsar didn’t keep his promises(1905), limits of the 1905 revolution and limits of Stolipans Reforms
Short term - WW1, defeats and conditions at the time
Spark - Bread riots spread, soldiers join in and betray the tsar

Question 6

Results of the 1917 February Revolution

Answer 6

Tsar abdicates

Provisional government is formed

Question 7

Problems the provisional government faced

Answer 7

July Days (protesters shot)
Kornilov Revolt (failed)
Lenin (April thesis (Peace! Bread! Land!)
Lack of people’s trust (failed to for fill promises - redistribution of land)
Escalated the war effort
Massive food shortages
Army under control of Petrograd soviet

Question 8

Bolsheviks in power

Answer 8

Improved food distribution
Sought peace with Germany 
Formation of the Cheka 
Equal rights 
Shortened working days 
Land redistribution to the peasants

Question 9

Civil war - Reds (Bolsheviks)

Answer 9

United aim
Control of industry and infrastructure (trains, communication and industry)
Better leadership (Trotsky)
Used propaganda (whites aid from foreign countries)

Question 10

Civil war - Whites

Answer 10

Foreign help (France, Japan, USA and Britain

Question 11

Ways the tsar controlled Russia

Answer 11

Russification 
Censorship 
Control of the Orthodox Church 
The Okhranna 
The Army

Question 12

The Orthodox Church

Answer 12

Loyal to the tsar
Russians were very loyal
Controlled education 
Extremely wealthy 
Portrayed Tsar as father of the nation
Was an important institution-Tsar and church in bed with each other

Question 13

Causes of the 1917 October Revolution

Answer 13

Short term - Lenin’s April thesis, July days, escalated war effort
Spark - Kornilov revolt

Question 14

Effects of Russification

Answer 14

Universal language (Russian) official business
Forced religion to orthodoxy
Forced culture
Russian official language of courts and schools
Caused anti semitism