Dates
March 1881
The Assassination of Tsar
Alexander II by bomb throwing members
The main government body after the October revolution that was chaired by Lenin which had the right to pass laws independently of the Petrograd Soviet
Council of People's Commissars
1904-05
Russo-Japanese War
When father Gapon led workers and their families towards the winter palace for the tsar to sign a petition but led too many people getting killed due to the troops firing
Bloody Sunday
After the 1905 revolution Nicholas II appointed this minster that believed in agriculture as a primary problem & worked to improve the peasants situation.
Pyotr Stolypin
March 1921
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Witte supported this monetary policy to stabilize Russia's currency
the gold standard
November 1907-June 1912
The third Duma
A peace overwhelmingly in Germany's favor that caused Russia to lose major areas of land
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
A leading member of the social revolutionary party who served as a minster of justice and minster of war before succeeding Lvov as prime minster in July 1917
Alexander Kerensky
March 2nd, 1917
(Hint: Government)
The provisional government was established
Local councils for the peasants that limited power and could be overruled by government
Zemstovs
1906
The fundamental laws
When Russia was decisively defeated by an Asian nation
Defeat at the battle of Tsushima
A self-professed healer that declined the tsar's reputation.
Rasputin
When Nicholas decided to go to the front to take personal charge of his armies even though he has no military skills
(Give the date of this occurrence)
August 1915
Sailors at Kroonstad, the naval base close to Petrograd established their own government in defiance of the provisional Government.
The July days
March 2nd, 1917
(Hint: Person)
Abdication of the Tsar
What happened at the Tenth Party Congress in 1921?
Lenin banned factions within the Communist Party
A German socialist thinker who argued that the source of history was determined by economic factors. These ideas influenced the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Karl Marx
Concessions made by the Tsar promising free speech, elected assembly (Duma), voting rights toward liberals
(State the date and event)
1905 the October manifesto
A failed attempt by General Kornilov to establish a military dictatorship in Russia. This even also restored Lenin's fortunes.
The Kornilov Affair
February-June 1907
The second duma
Short term causes of the October revolution in 1917
(answers may vary)
- The provisional government has no control over events
- The Russian government was suffering huge losses in ongoing war
-Kerensky could not deliver other reforms
A crucial figure in the 1917 Russian Revolution and was instrumental in the foundation of the Soviet state. He was a senior member of the Bolshevik Party and a Marxist revolutionary.
Leon Trotsky