Russian Revolution

Question 1

what was a Czar?

Answer 1

Absolute Monarch or ruler of Russia

Question 2

what was a proletariat?

Answer 2

lowest class in a society, mostly industrial workers

Question 3

what was the Bolsheviks?

Answer 3

communist majority faction of Russia Social Democratic Workers party

Question 3

what was the Bourgeoisie?

Answer 3

the middle class

Question 4

Who were the Romanov’s?

Answer 4

Czarist royal family who ruled Russia for 3 centuries?

Question 5

what is totalitarianism?

Answer 5

absolute unlimited power by a ruler

Question 6

what was a soviet?

Answer 6

elected councils formed during the revolution

Question 7

Pre-revolution Russia?

Answer 7

only true Autocracy left in Europe

no representative political institution for the people

Nicholas ll became Tsar in 1814

Question 8

what ideas became popular?

Answer 8

Marxist ideas.

Popular Mensheviks VS Radical Bolsheviks, led by Lenin

Question 9

3 causes of Russian Revolution?

Answer 9

1.Russia suffers humiliating defeat in the Russia-Japanese war

2. bloody Sunday

3.WW1 the last straw

Question 10

bloody Sunday

Answer 10

thousands of discontented peaseants

sought to petition the Czar for better working conditions and suffrage

the guards fired into the crown

Shooting sparked wide spread strikes and uprisings

Question 11

The last straw WW1

Answer 11

Czar Nicholas II brings Russia into the Great war

war revealed the ineptitude and arrogance of the country’s aristocratic elite

most peasants had very little invested in the war

poorly supplied troops result in massive casualties

Question 12

Czarina Alexandra the power behind the thrown

Answer 12

while Nicholas II was at the Eastern front of war his wife Alexandra ran the country

she was heavily influenced by Rasputin a mystical “holy man”

scandals surrounding Rasputin served to discredit the monarchy

Question 13

collapse of the imperial government

Answer 13

Alexandra and Rasputin throw the government into chaos

complete mismanagement of war time economy

Alexandra and other high government officials accused of treason

Rasputin assassinated in December 1916

Question 14

The march revolution

Answer 14

starts with food riots, strikes and protests against the war

The duma declares itself a provisional government

Formed soviets- local councils

Czar Nicholas abdicates the throne (steps down)

Lenin and his Bolsheviks return

Question 15

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 15

leading Marxist revolutionary

Exiled to Serbia for anti-Czarist protests
later fled to western Europe

Returned to lead and implement socialist reforms

Question 16

how long was the Russian revolution

Answer 16

1917-1920

Question 17

who were the reds?

Answer 17

the Bolsheviks and red army

Question 18

who were the whites?

Answer 18

were army officers, bourgeoisie, Cossacks, and moderate revolutionaries

Question 19

how did the imperial (royal) family die?

Answer 19

placed under house arrest
during the march revolution

czar Nicholas, Alexandra, and their 5 children were executed in July 1917

Question 20

what did the Bolshevik red guards do?

Answer 20

workers take over government offices and arrest the leaders of the provisional government

part of the October Bolshevik revolution

Question 21

what happened in march of 1918

Answer 21

the Bolshevik party is renamed communist party in march of 1918

part of the October Bolshevik revolution

Question 22

what happened during the October Bolshevik revolution

Answer 22

all private property of wealthy was abolished and divvied among the peasantry

largest industrial enterprises nationalized

political police are organized

revolutionary army created with Leon Trotsky in charge - the red army

Question 23

what treaty was negotiated for Russia to leave WW1?

Answer 23

the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germy to let Russia leave the war due to the revolution

part of the October Bolshevik revolution

Question 24

who renamed the country? and what was it’s new name?

Answer 24

Vladimir Lenin renamed and reorganized Russia the soviet Union

Question 25

what ideas did Lenin implement in the soviet union?

Answer 25

He implemented the ideas of Carl Marx

Question 26

what new policy did Lenin issue?

Answer 26

Lenin Issued the New economic policy in 1921 allowing some capitalist policies

Question 27

who was Joseph Stalin?

Answer 27

He was a Bolshevik revolutionary

appointed general secretary of the party’s central committee in 1922

Question 28

what was Stalin’s mode of opperation

Answer 28

He viciously eliminated any opposition

Question 29

what did Stalin Creat?

Answer 29

He created a fully communist state

ordered the execution of thousands

His secret police allowed no oppositions or freedoms

He also modernized the soviet union through 5 year plans of industrialization

Question 30

Did France, England, the US, and Japan support the Whites or Reds?

Answer 30

The whites received support

Question 31

what happened to the Duma (Russian Congress) after bloody Sunday?

Answer 31

The duma (Russian Congress) was allowed more power temporarily

Nicholas dissolved the Duma within weeks