Causes of the Revolution
This conflict created the conditions that would lead to revolution in 1905.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
This agreement led to the significant loss of Russian territory in 1918.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
The last tsar of the Romanov Dynasty
Who is Nicholas II?
The ideology of the SRs and SDs
What is Marxism?
The conservative political party who dominated the later Dumas.
Who are the Octobrists?
This legislation was responsible for betraying the expectations set up following the 1905 Revolution.
What are the Fundamental Laws?
This economic system acted as a fusion of communism and the system existing under the tsar.
What is State Capitalism?
This person was a 'renegade priest' who let the Putilov strikers.
Who is Georgi/Father Gapon?
This slogan was key to Lenin's popularity in the lead-up to revolution.
What is "Peace, Land and Bread?"
During the Civil War, this faction was made up primarily of peasant militias and anarchists.
Who are the Greens?
The position Nicholas appointed himself to in 1915.
What is the commander-in-chief (of Russia's armed forces)?
This was dissolved in January 1918.
What is the Constituent Assembly?
This person was appointed as Commissar of Social Welfare on 27 October 1917.
Who is Alexandra Kollontai?
By 1905, this ideology had become a significant opposition that aimed to reform the tsarist regime.
What is liberalism?
This group was considered the 'reddest of the red' by Marxists.
Who are the Kronstadt sailors?
On this date, thousands of women workers went on strike, kickstarting revolution in 1917.
When is 23 February 1917? (International Women's Day, 1917)
This event led to the expansion of the Cheka's powers.
What is the attempted assassination of Lenin?
This individual oversaw a period of rapid industrialisation under the tsar.
Who is Sergei Witte?
Lenin believed that a successful revolution movement required this within the group.
What is a vanguard party?
This political group led the first soviets set up during the 1905 Revolution.
Who are the Mensheviks?
This event in 1917 led to the release of all Bolsheviks imprisoned by the government.
What is the Kornilov Affair?
This practice under War Communism led to thousands of hours of 'voluntary work'.
What is subbotniki (Communist weekends)?
This individual wanted to continue the war in 1917, despite opposition from within the Bolsheviks.
Who is Nikolai Bukharin?
The belief that history is split into stages of social development.
What is historical materialism?
This many people were lost to territorial changes after the 1918 Treaty.
What is 62 million people? (34% of population)