russian vocab 2

Question 1

elected national legislature in Russia

Answer 1

Duma

Question 2

a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland

Answer 2

Bloody Sunday

Question 3

working class

Answer 3

Proletariat

Question 4

a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party

Answer 4

Bolsheviks

Question 5

the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism

Answer 5

Marxism

Question 6

council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917

Answer 6

Soviet

Question 7

known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland

Answer 7

Czar Nicholas

Question 8

He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924

Answer 8

Lenin

Question 9

a revolutionary in the Russian Empire and political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953

Answer 9

Stalin