Events
The war fought solely in Russia, with the opposing sides being the White Army and the Red Army.
What is the Russian Civil War?
A self-acclaimed mystic and psychic who influenced the Russian royal family and claimed to have healed their hemophilic son, Alexei.
Who is Grigori Rasputin?
The Russian government was an ______ when Tsar Nicholas II was ruling the throne.
What is an autocracy?
A form of organized protest, typically in an attempt to obtain a particular concession or concessions from their employer. (Workers in October of 1905 did this as they seized control of major Russian cities.)
What is a strike?
Who are the Bolsheviks?
The war fought by Russia and Japan in 1904 over Manchuria. It strained the Russian economy and grew opposition against the Tsar.
What is the Russo-Japanese war?
The leader of the Bolsheviks, previously exiled in 1895 for revolutionary activities with a deceased brother who was hung for trying to assassinate the Tsar.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
In October of 1905, after workers took control over major Russian cities, Tsar Nicholas II created the _____, an advisory council for the Russian government.
What is the Duma?
A ruler with absolute power. (Nicholas II was one.)
What is an autocrat?
The working-class, not the revolutionary peasants.
What is Marxism?
When thousands of men and women marched on Petrograd and soldiers joined alongside them, eventually forcing the Tsar to abdicate.
What is the February Revolution?
The son of Alexander II who reversed the majority of his father's reforms and created the Russification policy.
Who is Alexander III?
When the Tsar abdicted, Russia declared itself a ____.
What is a republic?
Extreme devotion and support for one's own country. (During the war with Germany, this was heavily present in Russia.)
What is patriotism?
The group of people who believed Russia needed to develop industrially with a strong working-class before they sparked a revolution.
Who are the Mensheviks?
When 200,000 Russian workers peacefully marched to the Tsar's palace in in 1905 to present a petition for reform, but Nicholas II ordered for palace guards to shoot a few hundred protestors.
What is Bloody Sunday?
An influential political figure in the Soviet Union's early days who acted as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and was the founder and commander of the Red Army.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
After the Tsar abdicated, this government's responsibility was to govern Russia until elections could be held for a National Constituent Assembly.
What is the Provisional Government?
Intolerance and persecution of non-Russian peoples, especially the Jews. (Alexander III created this policy.)
What is Russification?
The social and economic system where the means of making, moving and trading wealth should be owned or controlled by the workers.
What is socialism?
With roots leading back to the Napoleonic wars, this event emancipated the peasants, created a new representative local government called zemstvos, and limited the use and authority of the secret police along with other reforms.
What is the Revolution of 1905?
The Vice-Chairman of the Petrograd Soviets and the second Prime Minister of the Provisional Government before Lenin took control.
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
One problem with the Provisional Government was that it delayed _______ _____ and ______.
What is "economic reform" and "elections"?
A person who strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups. (This group of people formed alongside anarchists, nihilists, and various other radical reformist groups in 1905.)
What is a populist?
The direct control of the industry where peasants were forced to send food to the cities.
What is war communism?