Russian Revolution/Animal Farm

Question 1

Russian government before revolution

Answer 1

• monarchy
• czar’s power was unlimited until 1905
• no constitution
• strong secret police (KGB)

Question 2

Nicholas II

Answer 2

• Created the first secret police in Russia

- he was a brutal leader

Question 3

Czar Alexander II

Answer 3

• he implemented import reform
• did away with serfdom
• sold Alaska to USA

Question 4

Czar Alexander III

Answer 4

• harsh

Question 5

Czar Nicholas II

Answer 5

• Last czar of Russia
• never faced difficulties so he didn’t understand what the peasants go through
• Russian economy it was bankrupted, the people didn’t want him to enter into a world war

Question 6

Russo

Answer 6

Japanese war the shook their confidence

Question 7

Bloody Sunday

Answer 7

Pheasant staged and uprising, police killed everyone involved

Question 8

Russia and WWI

Answer 8

• Russia declared war on Austria - Hungary

- rationing leads to starvation

Question 9

Merch Revolution

Answer 9

• protests spread through St. Petersburg
• Royal palace is taken
• ## czar abdicates

Question 10

Communism

Answer 10

• form of socialism
• Central planning of the economy by state
• Gov’t (communist party) makes decisions on individual jobs and pay

Question 11

Characteristics of totalitarian state

Answer 11

• Dictatorship
• dynamic leader
• take control over individual
• organized violence

Question 12

Stalin’s totalitarian state

Answer 12

• State control of the economy
• police terror
• religious persecution
• propaganda
• education controlled by the government

Question 13

Lenin

Answer 13

• economic and political reforms
• mix of capitalism and socialism
• the Bolsheviks become the communist party
• russia becomes the USSR