Key Figures
This revolutionary helped organize the Red Guards and directed the seizure of power in Petrograd during the October Revolution.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
This illness, suffered by the Tsarevich Alexei, led the royal family to turn to Rasputin.
What is hemophilia?
This city was the main center of protests, strikes, and mutinies during the February Revolution.
What is Petrograd?
This Bolshevik leader planned and led the armed insurrection against the Provisional Government.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
This military organization was formed by the Bolsheviks to defend the revolution against counter-revolutionaries.
What is the Red Army?
This head of the Provisional Government continued fighting World War I, losing public support and strengthening the Bolsheviks.
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
One of the Romanov daughters, she became the subject of numerous impostors and survival myths for decades after the 1918 revolution.
Who is Anastasia Romanova?
This revolutionary group coexisted with the Provisional Government, creating a “dual power” situation.
What is the Petrograd Soviet?
This Bolshevik leader became the head of the new Soviet government after the October Revolution.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This secret police organization was established by the Bolsheviks shortly after the October Revolution.
What is the Cheka?
This woman was criticized for her influence on Nicholas II and for being of German origin during World War I.
Who is Alexandra Romanova?
The Romanovs were executed in this city in July 1918 by Bolshevik forces after months of imprisonment.
Who is Yekaterinburg?
This specific date (Old Julian Calendar) marks the start of mass protests that triggered the February Revolution.
What is February 23, 1917?
This palace, stormed by the Red Guards, symbolized the fall of the Provisional Government.
What is the Winter Palace?
This 1903 event during the Second Congress of the RSDLP caused a major ideological split between Lenin’s and Martov’s factions.
What is the split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks?
This Bolshevik leader became head of the Cheka, the secret police created to suppress counter-revolutionaries.
Who is Felix Dzerzhinsky?
This lesser-known Romanov relative fled the country and later provided one of the most detailed first-hand accounts of the dynasty’s fall.
Who is Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich?
This order issued by the Petrograd Soviet undermined military discipline and directly challenged the authority of the Provisional Government.
What is Soviet Order No. 1?
This political slogan, used by the Bolsheviks, captured the demands of workers, peasants, and soldiers.
What is “Peace, Land, and Bread”?
This city was renamed Petrograd in 1914 to sound less German during WWI, and was the center of the October Revolution.
What is St. Petersburg?
This man led the Bolsheviks and returned from exile in April 1917 with the April Theses.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This 1905 event saw Imperial troops fire on peaceful protesters and shattered the people’s trust in the monarchy.
What is Bloody Sunday?
This military committee played a key role in organizing soldier resistance and passing Soviet Order No. 1.
What is the Petrograd Soviet’s Executive Committee
After taking power, the Bolsheviks immediately pulled Russia out of the war by negotiating this controversial treaty.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
This slogan was used by anti-Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War to restore monarchy and fight communism.
What is “For God, Tsar, and Fatherland”?