Lead-up to the Revolution
The major war at the time influenced impoverished and torn Russia.
What is World War 1, or the Great War?
The year of the February Revolution.
What is 1917?
The other common name for the Bolshevik Revolution.
What is the October Revolution?
The two armies at war in the Russian Civil War.
What are the Red and White Armies?
The major world power that rose after the Revolution.
What is the Soviet Union?
The last Czar of Russia.
What is Czar Nicholas II?
The type of government established to promote a liberal program of civil rights.
What is a provisional government?
The Bolshevik Party leader.
What is Vladimir Lenin?
The Red Army's political party.
What are the Bolsheviks?
A political and economic ideology calling for a classless, government-controlled society where everything is shared equally.
What is Communism?
The parliament formed to work towards reform, at the Czars's behest.
What is the Duma?
The action the Czar took after the forming of the Duma.
What is resigning?
The political ideology adopted by the Bolsheviks during the creation of Lenin's government.
What is Communism?
The victorious army in the Russian Civil War.
What is the Red Army?
The world's first Communist state.
What is Russia?
The massacre that ignited the Russian Revolution.
What is the Bloody Sunday Massacre?
The type of troops called to quell the uprising of Petrograd industrial workers and protestors.
What is the Army Garrison?
The action made against the Duma by the Bolsheviks.
What is a coup, or coup d'etat?
The government established in 1923, the end of the Russian Civil War.
What is the Soviet Union?
The major world power the Soviet Union would soon contest with.
What is The United States?
The economic group of people forced to serve the nobility.
What is The Serfs?
Alexander Kerensky's decision regarding Russian involvement during WW1.
What is continuation?
The class that the provisional government was assembled by.
What is the bourgeoise?
The family executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the monarchy.
What are the Romanovs?
The power conflict between the Soviets and United States that lasted for nearly 45 years.
What is the Cold War?