Revolutionary Figures
His incompetent military leadership in the Great War contributed to his downfall and the execution of his family.
Who was Czar Nicholas II?
This process finally freed the serfs, but not until 1861!
What was emancipation?
"...the more we restrict the membership of this organization to persons who are engaged in revolutionary activities as a profession...the more difficult it will be to catch."
What is "What is to be done?" by V.I. Lenin.
Rasputin's political power was derived from his perceived ability to miraculously treat this disease in the young heir to the throne of Imperial Russia.
What is hemophilia?
The Russian word for a "council" - as in council of the workers or the peasants.
What is a Soviet?
His ruthless military genius in the Russian Civil War contributed to victory by the Reds.
Who was Leon Trotsky?
This 1905 protest in St. Petersburg resulted in many deaths, and the formation of the Duma
What was Bloody Sunday?
"But others, particularly those who are used to looking upon their husband as "breadwinners," are frightened. They have not yet understood that a woman must...seek and find support in the collective and in society..."
What is "Communism and the Family", by Alexandra Kollantai?
This woman was rumored but not proven to have been Rasptin's lover?
Who was Czarina Alexandra?
The Russian word for a congress or legislature.
What is the Duma?
Her German ancestry led the Russian people to distrust her loyalty to Mother Russia during the Great War.
Who was Czarina Alexandra?
The St. Petersburg "winter" home of Czar and later the Duma.
What was the Winter Palace?
"It would be an infinite crime on the part of the revolutionaries were they to let the chance slip, knowing that the salvation of the revolution, the offer of peace, the salvation of Petrograd, salvation from famine, the transfer of the land to peasants depend upon them."
What is the "Call to Power" by V.I. Lenin?
The first attempt to kill Rasputin was made using?
What is poison?
Lenin showed pragmatic flexibility in his willingness to adopt aspects of capitalism to save the economy.
What was the New Economic Policy?
His early support for the Bolshevik cause led ultimately to his ascent to General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1926.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
Once in power, this is how Lenin delivered on his promise for "Peace."
What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
"The central theme of Marx is the transformation of alienated, meaningless labor into productive, free labor, not the better payment of alienated labor by a private or "abstract" state capitalism>
What is "The Nature of Man" - Eric Fromm on Karl Marx.
Advice Rasputin gave the Czarina regarding the conduct of the Great War?
Why did the Czar fire his generals and assume disastrous direct battlefield control of the Russian army in the Great War?
During the Civil War, Lenin found it necessary and ideologically desirable to seize the crops of the peasants in order to feed the army and urban populations.
What is war communism?
He "provisionally" led the Duma and the constitutional government after the March Revolution.
Who was Alexander Kerensky?
For second time in 1917, there was a "revolutionary" change in Russia in St. Petersburg?
What was the October/ November Revolution?
"We made the mistake of deciding to go over to communist production and distribution. We thought that under the surplus food appropriation system the peasants would provide us with the required quantity of grain..."
What is "The New Economic Policy?"
Where did Rasputin claim to get his healing power from?
Who was God?
Both Lenin and Stalin used this police force to carry out the will of the Communist Party.
What was the Cheka/NKVD/ KGB?