Key Figures
On the night of July 16-17, 1918, this person's entire royal family was killed by Bolsheviks.
Czar Nicholas II
A sudden and unlawful seizure of power by a small group, typically involving the overthrow of a government or ruling authority, often through non-democratic means such as force or coercion.
Coup d’état
What happen on this key event Date: July 17, 1917.
Bolsheviks uprising fails in Petrograd.
Who founded the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)?
Vladimir Lenin
A Bolshevik leader but had ideological differences with Lenin.
Alexander Bogdanov
The massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful protesters who marched to present a list of demands to the czar
Bloody Sunday
What happened on this key event Date: October 25, 1917
October Revolution takes place. Bolsheviks overthrow Provisional Government and take power
What were the two sides in the civil war?
Red Army
White Army
was seen as Lenin’s likely successor but was outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin.
Leon Trotsky
Personal freedoms that are protected by law from the actions of a government.
Civil Liberties
What happened on this key event Date: June 3, 1917
Local soviets unite to form the All-Russian Soviet in Petrograd.
What were the two political parties that was rising during the time of the Russian Revolution.
Bolsheviks
Mensheviks
Carried out the Red Terror (1918–1922), a brutal campaign against political opponents.
Felix Dzerzhinsky
An economic or political system in which the state or community owns all property and the means of production, and all citizens share the wealth
Communism
What happened on this key event Date: March 2, 1917
Czar Nicholas II gives up the throne. Provisional Government takes over as Russia’s official government.
How did Russians feel about the Great War?
Most Russians supported the war at first, but as the army suffered defeats and the economy grew worse, protests broke out.
Overthrown by Lenin and the Bolsheviks on November 7, 1917.
Alexander Kerensky
When workers are in deep poverty, people would revolt and establish a socialist state.
Marxism
What happened on this key event Date: December 15, 1917
Bolsheviks withdraw Russia from World War I
Describe the Red Terror.
Secret police arrested and executed anyone suspected of being against the revolution.
Around 300,000 people were killed, and the striking workers and peasants were punished harshly.