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This person was the emperor of Russia before 1917 when Russia was still a monarchy.
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?
List some things that Russia endured in 1917.
What is: Hunger, World War, Revolution, (2) government takeovers?
This is a social system where all assets are owned by the public so each person operates and is paid in compliance with their abilities and needs.
What is Communism?
What war occured from 1854-1856?
The Crimean War.
What did Czar Nicholas II promise after the bloodshed of 1905?
The formation of reprsenative assemblies (Dumas) to work toward reform.
Who were the Romanov's executed by in 1918?
The Bolsheviks.
This led to the formation of the Soviet Union.
What are the two Russian Revolutions of 1917?
The Russian Revolution set the stage for the rise of the Soveit Union as a world power that would go head-to-head with which country during the Cold War?
The Unites States.
After the Bolshevik Revolution, what war broke out with the warring factions being the Red and White armies?
The Civil War in 1917.
What did the 1917 Revolution lead to the creation of in Russia?
The Soviet Union and the world's first Communist state.
Who was Grigori Rasputin to the royal Romanov family?
The healer of the hemophiliac son and an advisor.
What almost happened to major Russian cities such as St.Petersburg and Moscow between 1890 and 1910?
They nearly doubled causing overcrowding and poor living conditions for new Russian industrial workers.
The Russian Empire practiced this and it disappeared in most of Western Europe by the end of the Middle Ages.
What is Serfdom?
What were some outcomes of the Frebruary Revolution?
The Duma formed a Provisional government, Czar Nicholas II abdicates the throne, and a liberal program of rights is established by Alexander Kerensky.
What did Nicholas II repeatedly do after most Russians lost faith in his leadership?
He repeatedly dissolved the Duma.
This Philosopher supported a classless society and inspired revolutionary ideas among people.
Who is Karl Marx?
Why did Russia's invlovement in WWI prove to be disastrous for their empire?
Militarily, Russia was no match for industrialized Germany causing many Russian casualties, food/fuel shortages, and an overall costly war effort.
During the Cvil War, what did the Red and White armies represent or fight for?
The Red Army fought for the Lenin's Bolsheviks government. The White Army represented a group of allied forces including monarchist and capitilists.
How and when did the Civil War end?
It ended in 1923 with Lenin's Red Army claiming victory and establishing the Soviet Union.
What did the Bolshevik party leader, Vladimir Lenin launch that is also known as the "October Revolution"?
A nearly bloodless coup d'etat against the Duma's Provisional government.
After 1905, they joined Russian radical elements in calling for an overthrow of the hapless czar?
Who are Moderates?
What led to the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1905, and what happened that day?
Large protests by Russian workers againts the monarchy; hundreds of unarmed protesters were killed or wounded by czar's troops.
What paved the way for the rise of Communism as an influencial political belief system around the world?
The Russian Revolution
Czar Nicholas left the Russian capital of Petrograd in 1915 to take command where?
The Russian Army front.
What was the Provisional government made up of?
Several Political parties who planned to hold democratic elections.