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Question | Answer |
What type of government was Russia up to 1917? What did it mean? | An autocracy Only one person was in complete power |
Who? | Tsar Nicholas II |
What was the only way of replacing the Tsarist government? | A violent revolution |
Why was Lenin sent into exile? Who did he then join? | Plotting against Tsar Social Democratic Party |
What did Marx forecast? | Workers would stage a revolution against factory owners which would end class struggle |
What was the name of Lenin's 1900 pamphlet? What did he suggest in it? | "What is to be done?" Small number of dedicated revolutionaries would start the revolution |
What did the Russian Social Democrats divide into in 1903? | Bolsheviks (Lenin supporters) Mensheviks (those who did not) |
Where was Lenin when the revolution came in 1917? | Switzerland |
What happened in Russia in 1917? | Strikes and food riots began Nicholas abdicated |
What was Duma? What did they do? | The Tzar's council They elected "Provisional Government" and declared a republic |
Who helped Lenin return to Russia? What did Lenin hope? | Germans He would undermine the Provisional Government |
What was his April Theses aimed at? | "All power to the soviets" "Peace, Bread, Land" designed to appeal to soldiers, peasants and workers |
Who backed Lenin? | Leon Trotsky and Red Guards |
What day did Bolsheviks and Lenin choose to seize power? | 24 October Day before Congress of Soviets was due to meet |
Where did Red Guards take over? What did Lenin become? | Winter Palace (Provisional Government offices) The new ruler of Russia |
What did Lenin form? | Politburo (Cabinet) with Commissars (Ministers) |
What was significant about this government? | First Marxist government in history |
What 3 problems did they face? | They had to end war with Germany Set up a Marxist-style state Hold onto power against opponents |
What did the Bolsheviks sign in March 1918? | Treaty of Brest Litovsk |
What did Communists do after Lenin was shot and injured in 1918? | Launched reign of terror on their critics |
What occurred during it? | New secret police, CHEKA, arrested and executed thousands Tsar and his family were murdered at this time |
Who were "The Whites" made up of? | Tsarists, Social Revolutionaries, Mensheviks and others |
What did Lenin harshly impose? | The economic system "War Communism" |
What did this mean? What did this cause? | Red Guards went into country and seized grain from peasants without paying Peasants stopped growing food causing famine in 1920 |
How many died during the famine? | Millions |
What did Lenin announce at 10th Party Congress? | War Communism to be replaced by New Economic Policy (NEP) |
What had happened by 1928? | Russian economy had recovered |
What was the country's name changed to in 1923? | Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans (USSR) |
What did Lenin write before his death? | Testament He voiced his fears for the future of communist revolution and criticised Politburo members; mainly Stalin |
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