The founder of the Bolshevik Party, organizer of the October revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
Who is Vladimir Lenin
100
Russian word meaning council.
What is Soviet
100
This document was issued by Nicholas II in 1905, in which he made some concessions, promised the implementation of a State Duma, freedom of press and other individual rights.
What is the October Manifesto
100
Name given to the events of Sunday January 22, 1905 in St Petersburg where unarmed workers hoping to bring a petition to the Tsar’s Winter Palace were fired upon by Cossack troops, killing 300 people and injuring more than a thousand.
What is Bloody Sunday
100
He was a commander of the Russian Imperial Army during World War I and a leader of the anti-communist White movement in Northwestern Russia during the Civil War.
Who is Nikolai Yudenich
200
Mystical advisor at the court of Nicholas II. Gained the Tsar and Tsarina’s confidence by seemingly curing their son who suffered from hemophilia.
Who is Rasputin
200
Term for a radical political party, led by Lenin, literally meaning ‘majority’, which split apart from the Menshevik faction.
What is Bolshevik
200
This document written by Lenin was published in the newspaper Pravda on April 7, 1917 and consisted the ideas for Russia’s future. With this document Lenin called for the overthrow of the provisional government and its replacement with a communist form of government led by the working class.
What is the April Theses
200
These groups were all- female combat units formed after the February Revolution by the Russian Provisional Government in an effort to inspire the tired soldiers to continue fighting in World War I.
What is Women’s Battalion
200
Name for the Soviet secret police formed in 1917 to identify, investigate and deal with potential enemies of the state.
What is Cheka
300
A Marxist revolutionary that was initially supported by the Mensheviks and later joined the Bolsheviks, which aligned him closely to Lenin. He was eventually outmaneuvered by Stalin after Lenin’s death.
Who is Leon Trotsky
300
Group of prosperous peasants, who owned a relatively large farm and were major figures in the peasant villages before the Russian Revolution. The Soviet government undermined their positions by organizing committees of poor peasants to administer the villages.
What is Kulaks
300
This treaty was initiated by the Soviet government in 1917 in an effort to stop the war with Germany. It was signed on March 3, 1918 and the terms were harsh for Russia.
What is the Treaty of Brest Litovsk
300
A campaign of mass killings, torture and systematic oppression conducted by the Bolsheviks after they seized power in Petrograd and Moscow in 1917.
What is Red Terror
300
Name for the council assemblies created by Nicholas II. This was the national parliament of Russia between 1906 and 1917.
What is Duma
400
Prime Minister that played an important role in restoring order and crushing opposition after 1905. He reacted to the violence with arrests and sentences 1,000 people to death.
Who is Peter Stolypin
400
Name given to the Bolshevik economic policy imposed during the Russian Civil War. This policy sought to supply the war effort with grain requisitioning and strong state controls over labor and production. It was replaced in 1921 by the New Economic Policy (NEP)
What is War Communism
400
This was a loose confederation of Anti-communist forces that fought the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War (1917-1923).
What is the Whites or the White movement
400
This cruiser took part in the Battle of Tsushima and played a huge part in the 1917 revolution as it fired the shot that signaled the attack on the Winter Palace, the residence of the Russian monarchs.
What is The Aurora
400
These days refer to a spontaneous uprising against the provisional Government in July 1917. It was dispersed by government troops.
What is July Days
500
A member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party that participated in the provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet. He served as minister of justice, war and later as Prime Minister. He failed to prevent the Bolsheviks from seizing power.
Who is Alexander Kerensky
500
This was the name of the Government that members of the Duma formed following the February Revolution. It was meant to be temporary and would rule Russia only until the Constituent Assembly decided on a permanent government.
What is The Provisional Government
500
This was a reactionary, anti-revolutionary and anti-semitic group who were known for their support to the Tsar, autocracy and Russian nationalism.
What are the Black Hundreds
500
Other name for the Mutiny of 1921, the major unsuccessful uprising against the Bolsheviks in the later years of the Russian Civil War. The rebellion was one of the reasons for Lenin’s decision to loosen its control of the Russian economy by implementing the New Economic Policy.
What is The Kronstadt Rising
500
Other name for the Kerensky Offensive as the last Russian offensive of World War I taking place in July 1917. It was unsuccessfully planned by the Russian minister of War kerensky and demonstrated how bad the Russian army was disintegrated.