Revolution of 1905
What was Bloody Sunday?
On January 22, 1905, about 200,000 workers marched up to the palace to present a petition. The palace's response was to fire into the crowd. Hundreds were killed.
What is another name for the Bolshevik Revolution?
The October Revolution.
What were the names given to each side of the war?
It was the Reds (the Bolsheviks) vs. the Whites (former Czarist supporters and others against the Bolsheviks)
Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
True or false, Russia was an autocracy.
True!
What was the Duma?
An advisory legislature that was created to please the strikers.
Who were the main 3 Bolshevik leaders?
Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin.
Which side won, the Red Army or the White Army?
The Red Army won the Russian Civil War.
Who was Grigori Rasputin?
He was a man that claimed to be a mystic and a healer. He had a lot of influence over the royal family. Later, he was assassinated in order to end his influence.
Who/what are populists?
Populists are people who are advocating to help ordinary citizens, farmers, and other laborers.
What was Marxism?
Marxism was a theory and belief created by Karl Marx that was focused around class struggle. They believe that the working class should be the ones in charge of production.
What resources did the Bolsheviks occupy allowing their revolution to be successful?
They had most of the transportation, the communication centers, the government buildings, and they'd taken the Czars winter palace.
Who led the Red Army?
Leon Trotsky
Who was Leon Trotsky?
He was a politician during the Soviet Union who founded and commanded the Red Army.
Why did Germany help Vladimir Lenin to return to Russia?
They sent Lenin back to Russia in an attempt to start another revolution there. They were thinking that if Russia was busy with Lenin then they wouldn't be able to do very much in WWI.
What was Russification?
Russification, a policy created by Alexander III, was an intolerance to people who were not Russian.
What were the goals of the October Revolution?
They wanted the peasants and the workers to take power from the upper class, they wanted to end the war, they wanted to give land back to the peasants, and they wanted to give more power to the Soviets.
In what year did the Russian Civil War end?
1923
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
He was a revolutionary who was exiled to Germany. Later Germany helped him get back to Russia.
What was the Russo-Japanese war?
The Russo-Japanese war was between Russia and Japan over Manchuria. The war strained Russia's resources and negatively affected the economy.
Name 2 reforms made by Alexander II.
Alexander II limited the use of the secret police, got rid of press restrictions, modernized the judicial system, expanded the educational system, got the Russian Army together, and he created the Zemstvos.
Name 2 results of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Kerensky ran away, the Provisional Government fell apart, the Bolsheviks gained more territory, and the citizens gained more land.
Which side did the U.S., Japan, and Britain send aid to?
They all sent aid to the White Army.
Who was Alexander Kerensky?
He was a moderate socialist who served as the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government.
What was "war communism?"
It was a policy that Lenin created. It gave the government control of industry and trade, it also put strict rules around what people could and couldn't do.