The Russian Revolution

Question 1

First

Answer 1

First revolution won to establish a socialist society

Question 2

Capitols

Answer 2

Petrograd (during revolution) Moscow (after revolution)

Question 3

Mirs

Answer 3

Assigned parcels of land to particular peasants and established taxation rates for households.

Question 4

People’s Will

Answer 4

Radical group that believed that by carrying out assassination missions and acts of anti government terrorism would help topple the Czarist regime. Assassinated Czar Alexander II in 1881.

Question 5

Books of the Revolution

Answer 5

Catechism of the Revolution by Anarchists Sergei Nechaev and Mikhail Bakunin which describes the revolutionary as a person who only cared about the revolution.

Question 6

Liberation of Labor

Answer 6

Founded in 1883 by Russian exiles in Switzerland. Incuded Georgi Plekhanov who translated Marx’s works into Russian.

Question 7

Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

Answer 7

Russian Social Democratic Party. Evolution of Liberation of Labor in 1890s. Opposed terrorism and violence.

Question 8

Iskra

Answer 8

The Spark. The newspaper for the Russian Social Democratic Party.

Question 9

Bolsheviks

Answer 9

The Majority. Supporters of Lenin in the RSDP.

Question 10

Mensheviks

Answer 10

The Minority. Lenin’s opponents in the RSDP. Orthodox version of RSDP.

Question 11

Trade Union Consensus

Answer 11

A concern about limited job-related objectives, such as wages, benefits, working hours, and working conditions.

Question 12

Kulaks

Answer 12

Rich peasants.

Question 13

Stolypin Land Reform

Answer 13

Wanted to eliminate the Mirs and institute capitalist business relations among farmers. Premier Peter Stolypin.

Question 14

Bloody Sunday

Answer 14

Peaceful protest by workers in Petrograd. Led by activist priest George Gapon. Protesters massacred. Janurary 1905.

Question 15

The Duma

Answer 15

The Czar’s parliament. Mostly full of large wealthy businessmen, aristocrats, or employed in the professions.

Question 16

February Revolution

Answer 16

1917. Massive strikes in Petrograd. Army joins protesters. Protesters and soldiers take control of capitol. Czar forced to abdicate on (March 12/February 27)

Question 17

Petrograd Soviet

Answer 17

Dominated at first by Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries. Later dominated by Bolsheviks.

Question 18

October Revoluion

Answer 18

1917. Trotsky orders soldiers, sailors, and armed workers to occupy major transportation areas and the Czar’s winter palace. Little bloodshed.

Question 19

Trotsky’s General Theory Of Permanent Revolution

Answer 19

A worldwide series of revolutionary upheavals which together would bring the about the conditions necessary for the achievement of socialism throughout the world.