Important People
He was the founder of the Bolsheviks and the first leader of the USSR.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This was Lenin's economic policy during the Russian Civil War.
What was War Communism?
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This event was the trigger for the Revolution of 1905.
What was Bloody Sunday?
This is the agreement that Nicholas II signed following the Revolution of 1905.
What is the October Manifesto?
The name of the Russian Parliament created after the Revolution of 1905.
What is the Duma?
Lenin's slogans to the people. Give 2 examples.
What was "Peace Land and bread" and "All Power to the Soviets"?
The name Marxists use to describe the workers under industrial capitalism.
What is the Proletariat?
The name of the war between Japan and Russia, and the year it was fought.
What was the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)?
The name of Lenin's secret police.
What was the Cheka?
The country that helped Lenin return to Russia.
What is Germany?
People of Russia believed she was a German spy.
Tsarina Alexandra
Lenin and the Bolsheviks believed in the economic theories of this person, who advocated a classless society.
Who is Karl Marx?
The name of the agreement between Russia and Germany that ended WWI for Russia.
What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Marxist name for the capitalist (owners) class.
What is the bourgeoisie?
The new name of the Bolshevik party.
What is the Communist party?
A holy healer who was murdered by Russian nobles in 1916.
Who was Rasputin?
Can you sing some of the famous Rasputin song?
(Bonus points)
This economic policy was created by Lenin after the Russian Civil War.
What was the New Economic Policy?
Can you give 1 example from this policy?
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The vocabulary term for the Tsar stepping down from ruling.
What is to abdicate?
The full name of Russia starting in 1922.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?
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Leader of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Later, he was exiled and then assassinated by Stalin.
Who was Leon Trotsky?
Stalin's policy of grouping peasants into large farms owned by the government.
What was collectivization?
BONUS: What was the name of the class of peasants who heavily resisted this change?
After the March Revolution, this person became the leader of the new government.
Who was Alexander Kerensky?
BONUS: What political party was he in?
This is the disease that Nicholas II's son suffered from.
What is Hemophilia?
The revolution that resulted in Russia leaving WWI.
What was the November Revolution of 1917?