Vocab
Agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.
What are Serfs?
Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies was a city council of Petrograd, the capital of the Russian
What is A Petrograd Soviet?
he freed the serfs (poor peasants who lived on land owned by nobles) in 1861.
Who is Alexander The II?
was a Russian revolutionary and politician of liberal-socialist persuasions. In the eight months between February and October 1917, ______ was Russia’s most significant national leader, serving as justice minister, war minister
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government
What was The Revolution of 1905?
Member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people
What are populists?
member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917.
What are Bolsheviks?
He restricted the votes in the Noble Assembly to those with over 100 serfs, leaving 21,916 voters
Who is Nicolas I?
The founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
expansion of Russia to the East. However, the immediate cause was the annexation of the Liaodong Peninsula, previously captured by Japan. This triggered a military reform and the militarization of Japan.
What was The Russo-Japanese War, 1904
Make Russian in character.
What is Russification?
Economic policy applied by the Bolsheviks during the period of the Russian Civil War (1918–20)
What is War Communism?
He also created the policy of Russification: intolerance and persecution of non-Russian peoples, especially the Jews
Who is Alexander III?
1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
What was Bloody Sunday of 1905?
a rare disorder in which your blood doesn't clot normally because it lacks sufficient blood-clotting proteins (clotting factors)
What is Hemophilia?
A counter-revolutionary or an anti-revolutionary is anyone who opposes a revolution, particularly one who acts after a revolution in order to try to overturn it or reverse its course, in full or in part
What is counter-revolutionaries?
He is accredited to having been the personal healer to Nicholas’s son, Alexis, who had hemophilia.
Who is Grigori Rasputin?
the first of which, in February (March, New Style), overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October (November), placed the Bolsheviks in power.
What was the Revolution of 1917
Arranged or existing for the present, possibly to be changed later
What is Provisional
an emperor of Russia before 1917.
What is Tsar?
founded the Russian Communist Party, led the Bolshevik Revolution and was the architect of the Soviet state.
Who is Vladmir Lenin?
a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the two Russian revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism led by Vladimir Lenin
What was The Russian Civil War