Czars
Marx
Revolution
Literature
Grab bag
100
This was the last Romanov czar.
Who was Nicholas II?
100
According to Marx this was the revolutionary class (use Marxist term).
What is the proletariat class?
100
The Russian Duma was created as a result of this.
What is the 1905 Revolution?
100
Famous Russian poet who dared to criticize the Russian autocracy.
Who is Pushkin?
100
Revolutionary group that went to the countryside to educate the peasants on their revolutionary nature. Met with suspicion.
Who are the Narodniks?
200
This Czar is most famous for leading Russia against Napoleon and eventually defeating Napoleon.
Who is Alexander I?
200
According to Marx, history progressed through a series of stages. This stage followed feudalism.
What is capitalism?
200
This slogan helped Lenin win support for the communists.
What is Peace, Land, and Bread?
200
Creator of Russian fiction. His bizarre stories often criticized Russian society, especially those people with a stuck up nose.
Who is Gogol?
200
Revolutionary group responsible for the assassination of Alexander II?
What is the Narodyna Volya or People's Will?
300
The czar was known as the Czar Liberator.
Who is Alexander II?
300
This is Marx's most famous book.
What is the Communist Manifesto?
300
This person was the head of the Provisional Government until overthrown by the communists.
Who was Kerensky?
300
Author of The Death of Ivan Illyich, where a "successful" man contemplates the meaning or lack of meaning in his life.
Who is Tolstoy?
300
A must do for all revolutionary movements, according to Chernyshevsky in work "What is to be Done".
What is random illogical violence?
400
This Czar was known as the Gendarme of Europe. He helped restore European monarchs after the 1848 revolutions. He also got Russian into the disasterous Crimean War.
Who is Nicholas I?
400
This man was a co-author to many of Marx's books.
Who is Frederich Engels?
400
This was a coalition of anti-communists groups fighting the communists for control from 1918-1921.
What are the Whites?
400
Russians judge people based on this, in The Nose, the Overcoat and the Death of Ivan Ilyich.
What is rank?
400
Russian mad monk who influenced the czar.
Who was Rasputin?
500
This Czar crushed the Decembrist Revolt.
Who is Nicholas I?
500
The idea that the capitalist steals the wealth from the laborers is shown in this theory of labor.
What is the surplus value of labor?
500
Worker councils that took over many major cities during the revolution.
What are Soviets?
500
For example: Ivan is a man. All men are mortal. Ivan is mortal.
What is a syllogism?
500
Sent, by the Germans, to Russia in a sealed railway car.
Who was Lenin?