Tsarist Russia
This autocratic ruler was crowned in 1896 and ruled until 1917.
Tsar Nicholas II
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) was split into two groups in 1903.
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.
Russia entered WWI on this date.
Bonus: Reason for Russia's entry.
July 30 1914
Bonus: To support Serbia who had been invaded by Austria-Hungary
The person placed in control of the government while Nicholas II was at the "front"
Tsarina Alexandra
The October Revolution took place in this month (Russian calendar).
October (Julian calendar) / November (Gregorian calendar)
The Tsar’s wife, Alexandra, was unpopular because of her nationality and influence from this mystic.
Grigori Rasputin
The leader of the Bolsheviks who returned from exile in April 1917.
Vladimir Lenin
Russia fought mainly against this Central Power on the Eastern Front.
Germany
The number of ministers appointed by the Tsarina after 1915. Bonus: Known by what name?
Four
Known as 'ministerial leapfrog'
The Bolsheviks stormed this symbolic building in Petrograd.
The Winter Palace
The 1905 Revolution began after troops fired on protestors in this event.
Bloody Sunday
This slogan captured the Bolsheviks’ push for grassroots power through workers’ councils.
“All power to the Soviets”
The disastrous 1914 battle where the Russian army lost 170,000 men.
The Battle of Tannenberg
This “dual power” arrangement emerged after February between which two groups?
The Petrograd Soviet and the Provisional Government
The Military Revolutionary Committee was led by this Bolshevik.
Leon Trotsky
This institution, introduced after 1905, was intended to give people representation but had little power.
The Duma
In 1915, the Tsar made the critical decision to take on this role in the army.
Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army
Kerensky tried to defend the Provisional Government using these troops, who deserted.
Women’s Battalion of Death (plus some Cossacks and cadets, most deserted)
Name one key economic or social reform introduced by Stolypin (1906–1911).
Land reforms (Stolypin’s land banks, breaking up communes), suppression of radicals, agricultural reforms to create “strong peasant” kulaks
Name one way in which Trotsky’s leadership contributed to Bolshevik success in October 1917.
Organised the Military Revolutionary Committee, directed Red Guards, coordinated seizure of power in Petrograd
By 1917, soldiers and peasants were disillusioned because of shortages of these two key resources.
Food and fuel
Lenin's belief regarding how to organise revolution
Lenin adapted Marxism to work with his own ideas. He believed that revolution should be organised, not developed from unorganised protest.
The first Soviet government after October was formally called this.
The Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom)