Russian Revolution Book Questions PDF

Russian Revolution Book Questions 842-848 The Fall of Imperial Russia 1. Who was the Tsar of Russia during WWI and leading up to the Russian Revolution? ____________________________ 2. Many Russians went to b...

Russian Revolution Book Questions 842-848 The Fall of Imperial Russia 1. Who was the Tsar of Russia during WWI and leading up to the Russian Revolution? ____________________________ 2. Many Russians went to battle in WWI without rifles. How were they told to defend/fight? __________________________________________________________________________ 3. What is the Duma? What role did it play leading into the Russian Revolution? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. Where did the Tsar (question 1) go when he left the capital city in 1915? _______________________________________________________________ 5. Who did he leave in charge? ______________________________________________________ 6. Why did Alexandra Romanov trust Rasputin instead of political advisors? ______________________________________________________________________________ 7. Why did protestors have violent street demonstrations in Petrograd? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 8. What did the Russian army do when Nicholas ordered them to shoot the protestors? _________________________________________________________________________ 9. What did Nicholas do once the Duma declared a Provisional government on March 12, 1917? _____________________________________________________________________ Other notes/questions: The Provisional Government 10. What was the event being described in 7-9 known as: __________________________________ 11. What were 3 of the changes made by this new Provisional Government: a. _______________________________________________________________________ b. _______________________________________________________________________ c. _______________________________________________________________________ 12. Who became the new prime minister of Russia and what did he do about Russia’s involvement in WWI? ______________________________________________________________________________ 13. What was the Petrograd Soviet? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 14. How did the Provisional Government fall apart? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Other notes/questions: Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution 15. Lenin was a revolutionary leader who based his philosophy on _______________________________ 16. Lenin thought that only ______________________________________ could destroy capitalism 17. Lenin believed a Communist revolution was possible even in ___________________________________ societies like Russia 18. Lenin believed Revolutions were more based on ______________________________________ than by historical laws Lenin wanted a smaller and disciplined part dedicated to a communist revolution, while others wanted a more democratic party with mass membership. Eventually the Russian Marxists split into two groups: 19. Lenin called his group the __________________________________________ or “majority party” a. Only had majority by one vote, but Lenin kept the name for Propaganda purposes 20. The opposing party was known as the _____________________________ or minority party 21. Lenin had been hiding in Switzerland during the start of the war (from Russian authorities), why did Germany help Lenin return to Russia following the February Revolution? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 22. What was Lenin’s views on WWI? ___________________________________________________ Other notes/questions: Trotsky and the Seizure of Power The Bolsheviks continued to grow in size and power in Russia. 23. Who was Leon Trotsky and what did he do? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 24. He convinced the Petrograd Soviet to make him the leader of _____________________________________________________________________________ 25. What happened on November 6, 1917? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Bolsheviks came to power for 3 main reasons: 26. Democracy had made way to _____________________________________. Power was there for those who would take it. 27. Bolsheviks had strong __________________________________ (Lenin and Trotsky) that the provisional governments lacked 28. Bolshevik policies appealed to _______________________________________ Other notes/questions: Dictatorship and Civil War Bolsheviks kept power for over 4 years. Bolsheviks said that the feely elected Constituent Assembly would draw up a new Constitution. 29. What percent of the elected delegates were Bolsheviks? _______________________ 30. What percent of the elected delegates were from the Socialist Revolutionary Party (the peasant party)? _____________________ 31. What did Lenin do to the Constituent Assembly? _____________________________________________________________________________ 32. What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 33. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk allowed Lenin to do what? ______________________________________________________________________________ 34. What was the “White Opposition” (what were they mad about? ) and who were the Reds? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Lenin and the Red Army beat back the counter-revolutionary White Armies for several reasons 35. The Bolsheviks had quickly developed a better _______________________ 36. Trotsky was in charge of the Red Army. What happened to deserters or a soldier who disobeyed orders? ____________________________ 37. Which side (Red or White) did the Western Allies (USA, Britain, France) support? Why? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ a. This had little effect because ________________________________________________________________________ 38. What did the Bolsheviks do (during the Civil War) as part of their War Communism: ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 39. What was the Cheka? ______________________________________________________________________________ 40. By 1920, the White armies had been nearly defeated. The Bolsheviks had taken back most of the land lost under the __________________________________________________ Other notes:/questions: