Russian Revolutions - Mega Quiz

Question 1

Why Was There A Disaster in 1917?

Answer 1

-Weakness of Russia
-WW1 - army poorly led, defeats at Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes, 200 000 lost
-Tsars Mistakes - personal control of the army, Tsarina in charge, Feb 1917 gov’t chaos, failed to act in crisis
-Army abandons Tsar - Mar 8 riots, Mar 12 abandons
-Duma abandons Tsar - Mar 13 Tsar told to abdicate

Question 2

Feb-Mar Revolution timeline

Answer 2

Mar 7 - Steelworkers strike
Mar 8 - Int’l Women’s Day, Bread Riots
Mar 9-10 - Strikes and demos, Tsarina gets army
Mar 11 - Troops fire on crowds, Duma dissolved
Mar 12 - Soldiers mutiny, join riots
Mar 13 - Tsar takes army
Mar 14 - Tsar arrested
Mar 15 - Tsar abdicates

Question 3

Gov’t That’s Provisional Will Be Killed

Answer 3

-Government - Petrograd soviet is powerful
-Terrible conditions - War, hunger, inflation
-Peasants - Take land, kill nobles, troops sent
-War - Prov Gov’t wants to continue war
-Bolsheviks - “April Theses”, slogans, July Day riots
-Kornilov - Attempted a right-wing coup 1917 aug

Question 4

Perhaps Seven Powers Gave Lenin An Opportunity

Answer 4

-Provisional Gov’t
-Slogans - “Peace, Bread, Land”, “All power to soviets”
-Pravda - propaganda magazine, literacy focus
-German Money
-Army - Red Guards trained under Trotsky
-Organization - Well organized

Question 5

Great Big Change Creates Terrible War

Answer 5

-Gov’t changes - Nov 1917 election, assembly
-Berest-Liovsk Treaty
-Communist state - land to peasants, factories to gov’t
-Communist society - No religion and history, free love and divorce
-Terror - Totalitarian state, Cheka, censorship
-War communism - Requisition and rationing of grain, military discipline