Russian Revolution

Question 1

What was imperial russia like

Answer 1

It stretched over 4000 miles and had around 130 milion people

Question 2

What was the tsars family celebrating

Answer 2

In febuary 1913 russia celebrates 300 years of rule from the Romanovs - the tsars family

Question 3

What was the russian capital

Answer 3

St Petersburg

Question 4

What happened in lead up to the abdication

Answer 4

In march 8th 1917 thousands of workers in st petersburg filled in the streets demonstrating against the imperialist government. The tsars troops refused to fire on the people and joinned them. This was now a revolution

Question 5

When did he abdicate and what happened to the government

Answer 5

16 march, a new provisional government took control of russia.

Question 6

When did lenin return to russia

Answer 6

16 April 1917

Question 7

Who was vladimir lenin

Answer 7

Leader of the bolshevik party and believed in communism.

Question 8

What is communism

Answer 8

An iseoglogy where all property is owned by the people and each person contributes and receves depending on their needs

Question 9

What did communists believe in

Answer 9

• everyone should have a n equal share
in Rusia’s wealth
• peasants should have a share of the land
• workers should own a share of the factory where they worked
• the war should be ended immediately.

Question 10

What happened after the privisional government took over

Answer 10

October 1917 the bolsheviks seized power from the provisional government.

Question 11

What happened after the new bolshevik government formed

Answer 11

A civil war between 1918 and 1921 between the reds (bolsheviks and communist army) and white (tsarist army who were loyal)

Question 12

What was the specific date of the october revolution

Answer 12

October 25 1917 st petersburg

Question 13

What actually happened in the october revolution

Answer 13

Workers and communists stormed the winter palace, many of the guards left there posts to escape or wernt bothered. Some joined the bolshevik uprise.

Question 14

What were some failures in the october uprising

Answer 14

Sailors who were expected to help arrived late,

Huge feild guns were too rusty to fire

No oje could find the red lsnturn which was the signal to start the attack

Question 15

What was the reason the october revolution worked

Answer 15

Hardly anyone came to support the provisional government

Question 16

What was the outcome of the october revolution

Answer 16

The bolsheviks had seized power but were not fully control. There were still many oppositions and the parliment was still in a multi-part state.

The provisional government had promised an election for a new constituent to represent them (leader). Lenin was forced to go ahead with this.election however the bolsheviks were doing bad,y and were outnumbered in the constituent assembly.

He was determined to make russia communist so in january 1918 he sent soldiers to the constituent and closed it down taking power.

RUSSIA HAD BECOME A ONE PARTY STATE

Question 17

What did lenin to to finaly take power

Answer 17

Send soldiers to close down the constituent (parliment) and took power

Question 18

What was the name of st petersburg in those days

Answer 18

Petrograd

Question 19

What was the first thing the bolsheviks did in power

Answer 19

They were desperate for oeace with germany and sent diolotmats to negociate peace terms in november 1917

Question 20

Where did these diplomats go

Answer 20

Brest Litovsk

Question 21

When did they decide on a agreement to end the war

Answer 21

Peace was decided in march 3rd 1918

Question 22

What were the russian people unhappy about with this ‘shameful peace’

Answer 22

Russia had to give up alot of land
• 34% of Russia’s population
• 32% of Russia’s agricultural land
• 54% of Russia’s factories
• 89% of Russia’s coal-mines.

Question 23

What were the decrees that lenin passed

Answer 23

In 1917,
• Women were declared equal to men.
• Peasants who had a surplus of grain were forced to hand it over to the government so that people in the cities would have enough bread.
• Factories were taken away from their owners and placed under the control of workers’ committees.
• All land was taken away from the Tsar and the old landlords.
• A maximum 48-hour working week was declared for factory workers.
• Money and jewellery in rich people’s bank accounts were taken by the state.
• Rich people were forced to share there houses with poor families

Question 24

What happened to the tsars family

Answer 24

They were put under house arrest in a palace near st petersburg

Question 25

What was finally decided to be done with the romanovs

Answer 25

As of rumours of plots to free the imperial famoly, the communists moved the romanovs to a town called Ekaterinburg in the Ural mountains.

Question 26

What was the town the tsar was sent to called

Answer 26

Ematerinburg in the Ural mountains

Question 27

How and when did the tsar and his family. Die.

Answer 27

On the night of 16th july 1918 secret police officers awoke the tsar and tsarina and there 5 children were brought down into the cellar. They were told it was unsafe upstairs in there beedrooms. When they were all in the cellar they opened fire.

Question 28

Who were the secret police

Answer 28

Lenins Cheka who excecuted and tortured aponents

Question 29

Did any of the romanov survive

Answer 29

2 of the children were still alive so they were fineshed off with bayonets and bullets to the head

Question 30

Where the the bodies of the romanovs burried

Answer 30

The corpses were driven off in a lorry to be thrown down a deep mine shadt but the lorry got stuck in mud. They were burried in the ground with sulphuric acid on there faces so they couldnt be recognised.

Question 31

Where the the bodies of the romanovs burried

Answer 31

The corpses were driven off in a lorry to be thrown down a deep mine shadt but the lorry got stuck in mud. They were burried in the ground with sulphuric acid on there faces so they couldnt be recognised.

Question 32

What happened after the death of the tsars

Answer 32

Lenin denied ordering the excecution of them and insisted it was the local boslheviks in Ekaterinburg