Key People
This last Russian tsar abdicated during the 1917 Revolution?
Nicholas II
Most Russians were poor this (type of worker) living in the countryside.
Peasants
This was the first revolution in 1917 that removed the tsar.
February Revolution
This Bolshevik leader wrote the April Theses.
Lenin
This political system gave the tsar absolute power over Russia.
Autocracy
This second 1917 revolution brought the Bolsheviks to power.
October Revolution
This mystic became close to the royal family and damaged their reputation.
Rasputin
Russia’s defeat in this 1904–05 war triggered the spread of revolutionary ideology.
Russo-Japanese War
The Bolsheviks promised “Peace, Land, and ___.”
Bread
This man organized and led the Red Army during the Civil War.
Trotsky
This event in January 1905 involved troops firing on peaceful protesters.
Bloody Sunday
This 1918 treaty ended Russia’s involvement in WWI.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
This group’s leaders included Lenin, Trotsky, and other Marxist revolutionaries.
The Bolsheviks
Marxists believed that this type of struggle would bring revolution.
Class struggle
This uprising in 1921 protested against Bolshevik policies.
Russian Civil War