Tsarist Russia
This ruler was Tsar of Russia from 1894 and remained on the throne until the February Revolution.
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?
This 1905 event saw peaceful protestors march to present a petition, only to be fired upon by troops.
What is Bloody Sunday?
This war of 1904–05 exposed Russian weakness and contributed to unrest at home.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
This revolutionary leader returned to Russia in April 1917 and called for “Peace, Land, Bread.”
Who is Lenin?
These proposals, issued after Lenin’s return in April 1917, rejected support for the Provisional Government.
What is the April Theses?
This term describes the system in which the Tsar held supreme power with little real democratic limitation.
What is autocracy?
Issued in 1905, this document promised civil liberties and a parliament in an attempt to calm unrest.
What is the October Manifesto?
This battle in August 1914 saw the German army encircle and destroy the Russian Second Army.
What is the Battle of Tannenberg?
This ideology argued that history was driven by class struggle and inspired revolutionary groups in Russia.
What is Marxism?
This failed uprising in mid-1917 showed growing unrest but did not yet bring the Bolsheviks to power.
What are the July Days?
This advisor’s influence over the royal family helped damage confidence in the monarchy during World War One.
Who is Rasputin?
These laws, issued in 1906, reasserted the Tsar’s authority and limited the reforms many Russians had hoped for.
What are the Fundamental State Laws?
This government replaced the Tsar after February 1917 but struggled to solve Russia’s major problems.
Who is the Provisional Government?
This political figure became head of the Provisional Government in 1917.
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
This 1917 crisis involving a possible military move against Petrograd increased support for the Bolsheviks.
What is the Kornilov Revolt/Affair?
This major St Petersburg factory became the centre of unrest after five workers were dismissed in December 1904.
What is the Putilov Steel Works?
This politician is associated with attempts at reform after 1905, but also with repression designed to preserve the regime.
Who is Peter Stolypin?
This situation developed after February 1917, where the Provisional Government shared power uneasily with the Petrograd Soviet.
What is Dual Authority?
This revolutionary was initially a member of the Menshevik party but eventually worked closely with Lenin and played a major role in the events of October 1917.
Who is Trotsky?
This body gained influence after February 1917 because it represented workers and soldiers and could challenge the authority of the Provisional Government.
What is the Petrograd Soviet?
The average life expectancy of a Russian peasant farmer was about this age.
What is 40 years?
In 1906, this many suspected terrorists were arrested under Stolypin’s repressive measures.
What is 1008?
In 1916, there were 300 outbreaks of this kind of rural unrest, showing that old land grievances were resurfacing.
What are peasant attacks on nobles' houses and property?
This political party believed in using terror to achieve their goals and were favoured by peasants.
Who are the Socialist Revolutionaries?
This organisation, formed on 16 October, became the key instrument for organising the armed seizure of power in Petrograd.
What is the Military Revolutionary Committee?