Key Figures
The monarch overthrown during the Russian Revolution
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?
The Iranian Revolution mostly occurred in this year.
What is 1979?
A system in which one person holds absolute power which is passed down hereditarily.
What is a monarchy?
A cause of a revolution that relates to the finance of a nation.
This is the capital of Iran.
What is Tehran?
This 'monk' supposedly healed the monarch's son during the Russian revolution, undermining the public's belief in the monarch's competence.
Who is Rasputin?
This was the year in which the leader of the Mensheviks, Vladimir Lenin withdrew from WW1 (the year after he took power).
What is 1918?
This is the name of the secret police organization used by the Iranian government.
What is SAVAK?
This was a force opposed to the Shah as the Shah rejected tradition and modernity while threatening to reduce their power.
What are the Islamic clergy?
This is the number of countries bordered by Russia.
What is 14?
This German philosopher's ideas spread and possibly incited the Russian revolution.
What is 1941?
This is the day on which a massacre of the Russian revolution occurred.
What is Bloody Sunday?
Approximately this percentage of the population of Russia were peasants and extremely poor.
What is 80%?
These are the neighbours of Iran (list 5).
Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey and Iraq.
The final monarch of Russia was executed in this town.
What is Yekaterinburg?
In this year, the monarch of the Russian Revolution went back on his words by reducing the power of the parliament.
What is 1906/7?
This is a faction of the Russian revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin; Its name famously translates to "Minority".
These are the four most common factors of revolutions (name 3).
What are the frustration of the masses, displeased elites, state crises, and shared motivations?
In this year, a country changed its "Persia" to "Iran".
What is 1935?
What are the Qajars?
The monarch of Russia took control of the army on this month.
When is September of 1915?
What is a mullocracy?
This piece of technology allowed for the export and rapid spread of revolutionary ideas in Russia.
What are trains?
The export of this food is a field in which Iran is the second best.
What are pistachios?