Russian Vocab 3

Question 0

Karl Marx

Answer 0

Founder of Communism who believed that historic change was determined by struggle between two economic classes.

Question 1

Social Democratic Party

Answer 1

Followed Marx and believed the workers would revolt and remove the tsar and a communist state would be put in its place. Split after 1903.

Question 2

Mensheviks

Answer 2

One half of the former Social Democratic Party - they believed that the party should have a mass membership and believed that it might take a long time before there was a revolution in Russia.

Question 3

Bolsheviks

Answer 3

Another faction of the Social Democratic Party - believed that a small group of party leaders (vanguard) should organise a revolution and it should be soon.

Question 4

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 4

Leader of the Bolsheviks

Question 5

Julius Martov and Leon Trotsky

Answer 5

Leaders of the Mensheviks

Question 6

Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs)

Answer 6

Wanted to distribute land amongst the peasantry - some believed in terrorist methods, others in constitutional methods.

Question 7

Alexander Kerensky

Answer 7

Became leader of the SRs

Question 8

Constitutional Democratic Party (Cadets)

Answer 8

Wanted a constitutional monarch and an elected Parliament

Question 9

Octobrists

Answer 9

A Middle Class party that believed the tsar would carry out his October Manifesto promises.

Question 10

Proletariat

Answer 10

Workers

Question 11

Bourgeoisie

Answer 11

Middle classes