Russian Revolution review guide

info

  • 30pts

  • 20 multiple choice

  • 10 fill-in-the-blank

  • 5 chronology

  • 1 open response

    • choose Lenin or Stalin

    • describe how effective they were in achieving Marxist goals of a Communist society

    • difference between claims & actions

open response prep

  • Lenin

  • Stalin

    • improved workers’ rights

    • redistribution of land

    • nationalized industries

key terms

people

  • Vladimir Lenin

  • Joseph Stalin

  • Trotsky

    • leader of the Red Army

  • Alexander Kerensky

    • Provisional Government leader

  • Karl Marx

  • Nicholas II

    • was forced to rely on the military to keep his power

  • Rasputin

  • Alexandra

    • N II left to join the army during WW1 → she got all the power

events

  • Russo-Japanese War

    • Russia’s defeat

  • women’s march in Petrograd

    • protests against food shortages & for the end of WW1

    • tsar ordered police to control the protest but many refused & joined

  • Civil War

    • Red Army vs White Army

  • February/March Revolution

    • first stage of the revolution

    • tsars → dual power

  • October/November Revolution

    • dual power → Bolsheviks

  • Great Purge

organizations

  • Red Army

    • Lenin’s followers

  • White Army

    • anti-Bolsheviks

  • Bloody Sunday

    • a workers’ protest

    • got broken up violently by the police

  • Duma

  • Mensheviks

  • Bolsheviks

  • provisional government

    • temporary government

  • Soviets

    • Menshiks & Bolsheviks

terms / other

  • Emancipation Manifesto

    • freed the serfs

  • October Manifesto

    • promised a change in the govt

  • Communism

  • Socialism/Marxism

  • russification

  • dual power

    • Provisional Government & Soviets

  • war communism

  • new economic policy (NEP)

  • industrialization

  • collectivization

  • five-year plans

  • kulaks

  • serfs

  • gulags

  • privatization

questions

  1. What were the causes of the revolution? Explain the significance of each.

    • ineffective czars : shifts between autocracy & democracy

    • lack of industrialization

    • Russo-Japanese war

    • Bloody Sunday

    • WW1

    • Rasputin

  2. Stalin / Lenin / Trotsky / Kerensky : What were their roles in the revolution and how did they acquire and keep power?

  3. Why was war communism created? Why was NEP implemented?

  4. How was Stalin’s view of communism different from Marx’s?

  5. what was Russia like pre-revolution?

  6. prov govt vs soviets? which one is more powerful? why

  7. soviets’ goals? how did they achieve them?

  8. how did the civil war affect russia? who was involved

  9. bolsheviks vs mensheviks?

    • same goal, different approaches

  10. privatization vs collectivization?

  11. Create the timeline of events.

timeline

  • tsars’ rule

  • Nicholas II’s rule

    • Russo-Japanese War

    • Bloody Sunday

    • creation of the duma

    • World War 1 starts

    • Rasputin

    • women’s march in Petrograd

    • abdication

    • formation of the provisional govt

    • Lenin’s return to Russia

    • published April theses (call to overthrow of the prove govt)

  • dual power

    • Oct Revolution

    • Bolsheviks’ ovethrow of the New Provisional Government

  • Bolsheviks’ rule

    • Lenin

      • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

      • Russia → USSR

      • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

      • Civil War

      • start of NEP

    • Stalin

      • Trotsky is exiled