288426137 | What was Russia like in 1914? | huge but backward | 1 | |
288426138 | What were the majority of people in Russia in 1914? | peasants | 2 | |
288426139 | peasant | poor person who works the land | 3 | |
288426140 | Czar | ruler of Russia | 4 | |
288426141 | Duma | elected national legislature of Russia | 5 | |
288426142 | Nicholas II | a weak Russian ruler who used his secret police and others to impose his will | 6 | |
288426143 | Marxists | people who believe that those who control the economic system also control the political one; followers of Karl Marx's philosophy | 7 | |
288426144 | What group tried to ignite revolution among the proletariat? | the Marxists | 8 | |
288426145 | proletariat | growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners and urban wage earners | 9 | |
288426146 | What did the outbreak of WWI in 1914 do for Russians? | fired their pride and united them | 10 | |
288426147 | Alexandria | Wife of Czar Nicholas I, her title is Czarina | 11 | |
288426148 | What did Czar Nichoals do when WWI started? | went to the front where the fighting was and left Alexandria in charge of home(domestic) affiars in the country | 12 | |
288426149 | Gregory Rasputin | an illiterate (can't read) peasant and "holy man" | 13 | |
288426150 | Who did Alexandria trust to help her run the country while Nicholas was gone to war? | Gregory Rasputin | 14 | |
288426151 | How did many Russians feela bout Rasputin helping the Czarina run the country? | they didn't like it because they thought he was out for himself | 15 | |
288426152 | What happened to Rasputin? | Some of the nobles killed him on Dec. 29, 1916 | 16 | |
288426153 | How was Russia doing in WWI? | not well; there were many disasters on the battlefield | 17 | |
288426154 | How was Russia doing at home during WWI? | not well; there were food and fuel shortages | 18 | |
288426155 | What happened in March 1917 in Russia? | Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate | 19 | |
288426156 | abdicate | give up power and position as ruler | 20 | |
288426157 | Who ruled after the czar abdicated? | the DUMA temporary | 21 | |
288426158 | Soviets | councils of workers and soldiers | 22 | |
288426159 | Bolsheviks | a radical socialist group that took charge under the leadership of V. I. Lenin | 23 | |
288426160 | Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov Lenin | Known as just LENIN after he became a revolutionary | 24 |
Ch. 15 sec Two revolutions in Russia p 1 Flashcards
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