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The violent political event that took place in March 1917.
What is the Russian Revolution?
The legislative body formed after the Revolution of 1905.
What is the Duma?
This led to the Russian Revolution of 1905.
What is the Bloody Sunday Massacre of 1905?
The overthrowing of the Provisional Government by the Bolsheviks.
What is the October Revolution of 1917?
The red army fought for.
What is Lenin’s Bolshevik government?
The new Provisional Government could only make changes if the Petrograd Soviet agreed to them.
What is Dual Power?
The form of feudalism in which landless peasants were forced to serve the land-owning nobility.
What is Serfdom?
The last Czar.
What is Nicholas II?
The emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition generally in the cases of new nations or following the collapse of the previous governing administration.
What is the Provisional government?
The fate of the Romanovs.
Executed by the Bolsheviks
This country’s government aided Lenin in returning to Russia.
What is Germany?
The war that ended in 1905
What is the Russo-Japanese war?
Czarina Alexandra's controversial advisor.
What is Grigory Rasputin?
The proletariat included...
What is Soldiers, workers and peasants?
What is the White Army?
Believed in democratic constitutional democracy but not revolutionary social or economic change.
What are the Liberals?
All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage
What is the Checka?
Merchants, bureaucrats, professionals: 1.5% of the population in early 20th century Russia.
What are the middle class?
A workers and soldiers council.
What is a Soviet?
Stated that the Petrograd should only obey orders given by the Provisional government if the Soviet approves.
What is Order Number 1?
The slogan of Lenin and the Bolsheviks
What is Bread, Land and peace?
Political philosopher who believed that historical change came from economic conflict between owners of capital (bourgeoisie) and workers.
Who is Karl Marx?
A wealthy landowning peasant.
What is a kulak?
The new Prime Minister of the government in July 1917
Who is Kerensky?
Tried to overthrow the Provisional Government in August 1917.
What is General Kornilov?