Russian Revolution (World History)

Question 1

Life for Russians under czarist rule

Answer 1

• All published material censored
• Sent to Siberia for speaking out against the government
• peasants had few rights (treated a little better than slaves)
• Only speak Russian
• Mistreated the Jews

Question 2

Industrialization in Russia - Later than Europe (Behind)

Answer 2

The good - Modernized Country
The Bad -
Terrible working conditions
Child labor
Low wages
Unions are illegal

Question 3

Trans-Siberian Railway

Answer 3

Longest railway, during industrialization of Russia

Question 4

Things that caused the Russians to follow the ideas of Karl Marx

Answer 4

• Harsh czars
• Bad working and living conditions (no bread, bloody sunday)
  Goal: Proletariat overthrow of the government.

Question 5

Russo-Japanese war

Answer 5

Russia defeated, so Russia is embarrassed/ humiliated.

Question 6

Bloody Sunday

Answer 6

Workers went to the palace to request better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected National Legislature. Czar Nicholas had soldiers fire into the crowd of people.

Question 7

Duma

Answer 7

In response to Bloody Sunday, the czar creates the Duma - First parliament in Russia

Question 8

Russia in WW1

Answer 8

Not prepared (economically or militarily), price inflation and food shortages, and huge casualty numbers.

Question 9

Nicholas II at the front lines of WW1

Answer 9

Russia was struggling, so to boost morale, czar Nicholas moved to the front lines to command the troops himself.

Question 10

Rasputin in the government and the outcome of him

Answer 10

Czarina allowed Rasputin to control govt. He took advantage of power and money to benefit himself and his buddies. Ultimately, the nobles killed him.

Question 11

Mensheviks

Answer 11

Pro monarchy (czar), but still wanted a revolution. (Moderate) Broad base of popular support of revolution.

Question 12

March Revolution

Answer 12

People protesting/revolting - czar was overthrown

Question 13

The outcome for last czar and family

Answer 13

They were murdered in a basement.

Question 14

Bolshevik Revolution

Answer 14

Unhappy with provisional govt. Bolsheviks overthrow the provisional govt.

Question 15

Why the Bolshevik´s cry of Bread! Peace! Land! Would have been so popular

Answer 15

Bread - people are starving (food shortages) and people liked the promise of food.
Peace - Tired of WW1, liked the promise of exiting the war
Land - peasants had no land, so they liked the idea of redistributing land throughout Russia.

Question 16

Bolshevik response to Nationalism

Answer 16

Split up Russia into republics (soviets), renamed to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR)

Question 17

Lenin´s New Economic Policy

Answer 17

Helped to rebuild the Russian economy wrecked by war. The government controlled banks, industries, and communications. Foreign investment was encouraged. Small farmers were allowed to sell crops. Small businesses and farms were privately owned.

Question 18

Forced Famine

Answer 18

Ukranian famers protested giving the government crops, Stalin punished them by starving them.

Question 19

Examples of Stalin´s totalitarianism

Answer 19

Censorship, forced famine, Great Purge, Secret Police (NKVD), killed suspected traitors.

Question 20

Positive outcomes of Stalin´s rule

Answer 20

Education became more available
Women were given equal rights.

Question 21

Lenin

Answer 21

The leader of the Bolsheviks until 1924

Question 22

Soviet

Answer 22

One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas II

Question 23

Communist Party

Answer 23

A political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and Lenin; originally the Russian Bolshevik Party.

Question 24

Joseph Stalin

Answer 24

Leader of the Communist party and totalitarian dictator of the USSR.

Question 25

Totalitarianism

Answer 25

government control over every aspect of public and private life.

Question 26

Great Purge

Answer 26

A campaign of terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin saught to eliminate all Communist Party members and other citizens who threatened his power.

Question 27

Command Economy

Answer 27

An economic system in which the govt. makes all economic decisions

Question 28

Five-Year Plan

Answer 28

Plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union´s economy.

Question 29

Collective Farm

Answer 29

A large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms.

Question 30

Proletariat

Answer 30

In Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia

Question 31

Rasputin

Answer 31

A “holy man” who impressed czarina Alexandra, so she gave him power over Russia’s political decisions

Question 32

Provisional government

Answer 32

A temporary govt.

Question 33

Cheka

Answer 33

A secret police force used to control the people of the Soviet Union.