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He was the last czar, is crowned ruler of Russia in the old Ouspensky Cathedral in Moscow.
Who was Nicholas II?
This revolution started in 1917.
When was the start of the Russian Revolution?
The revolution began on March 8, 1917 (February 23 on the Julian calendar).
When did the February Revolution happen?
On November 6 and 7, 1917 (or October 24 and 25 on the Julian calendar)
When did the Bolshevik Revolution happen?
The medieval era in European history is often referred to as the "Dark Ages," between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Renaissance.
What was the Middle Ages?
He was a Russian communist revolutionary and head of the Bolshevik Party.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
A form of feudalism in which landless peasants were forced to serve the land-owning nobility.
What was serfdom?
Industrial workers were on strike and the Russian Romanov rule was overthrown.
What was the February Revolution?
The Bolshevik Revolution is also called the October Revolution.
What was the other name for the Bolshevik Revolution?
He was a German economist and philosopher.
Who was Karl Marx?
He was a self-proclaimed holy man, who was murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over the royal family.
Who was Grigory Rasputin?
It brought with it enormous social and political changes when it eventually did, at the turn of the 20th century.
What happen when Russia did industrialized?
The troops opened fire that day, killing protesters, but the protesters remained in the streets, and the troops started to waver.
What happened on March 11?
He became the dictator of the world’s first communist state.
Lenin was the first what?
A war between Russia and the United States
What was the Cold-War?
The group represented a large group of loosely allied forces, including monarchists, capitalists, and supporters of democratic socialism.
Who was the White Army?
The czar's troops killed or injured hundreds of unarmed protestors.
Wha was the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1905?
This group opposed the violent social revolution.
What did the Liberal Program oppose?
The Soviet government would be ruled directly by councils of soldiers, peasants, and workers.
Who ruled the Soviet government?
This army fought for the Lenin’s Bolshevik government.
Who was the Red Army?
He was a Russian lawyer and established a liberal program of rights such as freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the right of unions to organize and strike.
Who was Alexander Kerensky?
As an influential political belief system around the world, the Russian Revolution paved the way for the expansion of communism.
What was the outcome of the Russian Revolution?
A provisional government was formed on March 12.
What did the Duma form?
Government buildings and other strategic positions in Petrograd were occupied.
What was occupied by the Bolsheviks and their allies?
This city was rename "Petrograd".
St. Petersburg was renamed what?