TRIVIA Flashcards
what calendar did russia use before?
julian
what slogan was shouted during the revolution?
bread, peace and land!
what did the february revolution begin as?
an international women’s day march
where was the tsar during the february revolution?
visiting soldiers at the front
after the revolution, how many organizations claimed to be the new government?
two
the provisional government was made up of ______
former members of the duma
upon his return to russia, what did lenin think of revolutionaries outside of his own party?
as enemies who might be used temporarily but had to be eliminated in the end
the petrograd soviet was a ____
union of workers and soldiers
which event weakened the bolsheviks?
the july putsch
which event weakened the provisional government?
the kornilov affair
why did it take an entire day for the bolsheviks to capture the winter palace?
because neither side wanted to shoot each other so they negotiated for hours
what symbols do names mean?
-lenin
-molotov
stalin
lena
steel
hammer
