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| 4155882755 | What were the Bolsheviks seen as by summer 1917? | One of the only alternatives to the Prov Gov | 0 | |
| 4155883591 | Who joined the Bolsheviks from the Mensheviks in summer 1917? | Trotsky | 1 | |
| 4155884703 | What 3 things sparked the July Days? | - Failure of summer offensive - Workers anger at their economic plight - Petrograd Garrison believing that it was about to be sent to the front | 2 | |
| 4155887820 | What happened on the 3rd of July? | People were marching in the streets, including armed groups and soldiers | 3 | |
| 4155888347 | What happened on the 4th of July? | 20,000 Kronstadt sailors arrived and people became increasingly violent | 4 | |
| 4155889917 | What did the Kronstadt sailors do once they arrived in Petrograd? | Marched to the Tauride Palace and demanded that the Soviets take power | 5 | |
| 4155891726 | What did Chernov do to try and diffuse the situation? | Went to go and calm the soldiers down but was seized and bundled into a car, with Trotsky having to rescue him | 6 | |
| 4155894951 | What was Lenin's response to the July days? | He had been on holiday but rushed back and adopted a 'wait and see' policy, neither fully associating nor disassociating from it | 7 | |
| 4155899272 | What did the Provisional Government leak to help discourage the revolt? | A document that showed that the Germans had helped Lenin return to Russia and suggested that he was there to hinder the Russian war effort | 8 | |
| 4155901097 | What happened after the July Days? | Several senior Bolsheviks including Trotsky were arrested, Lenin had to flee to Finland and Bolshevik newspapers were closed down | 9 | |
| 4155903438 | What had Kerensky decided by the end of August? | That he needed to restore law, order and discipline in both the army and the cities | 10 | |
| 4155905177 | Who did Kerensky appoint as supreme commander of the Russian forces? | Kornilov | 11 | |
| 4155923438 | When was the Kornilov affair? | 26th-30th of August | 12 | |
| 4155905501 | But what did Kornilov do? | Believed he had a chance to crush the radical socialists and sent troops marching towards Petrograd, beginning a military coup | 13 | |
| 4155907995 | Why were most people terrified at the prospect of Kornilov launching a coup? | Because they thought it would mean the end of the revolution and all that they had worked so hard to achieve | 14 | |
| 4155909572 | Why did the Petrograd Garrison not want a Kornilov Coup? | Because they thought they would get sent to the front and that they would lose the power that they had gained over their officers | 15 | |
| 4155911545 | Who helped organise defence of the city and what was Kerensky's response to this? | The Bolsheviks, with the red guard starting to appear on the streets, Kerensky armed them with weapons | 16 | |
| 4155913010 | What happened to Kornilov in the end? | His troops did not arrive as railway workers halted their trains and he was arrested | 17 | |
| 4155914164 | What 5 key things happened as a result of the Kornilov affair? | - Kerensky's reputation was irretrievably damaged - The Menshevik's and SR's were discredited due to their association with Kerensky - the Kadets and Liberals were completely distrusted by the bulk of peope as agents of the bourgeoisie - Soldiers murdered hundreds of officers and officers felt that Kerensky had betrayed Kornilov - Bolsheviks gained huge support and were seen as saviours of the city | 18 | |
| 4155920962 | What happened on the 9th of September 1917? | Bolsheviks gained overall control of the Petrograd Soviet | 19 | |
| 4155923002 | What happened on the 25th September 1917? | Trotsky was elected as the soviet's president | 20 | |
| 4183035750 | What 4 factors made Lenin decide that the time was right to return from Finland and launch a Bolshevik seizure of power? | - Bolsheviks had control of the Soviet - Bolshevik popularity was at an all time high and they had done very well in elections to soviets throughout Russia - The liberals and conservative forces were demoralised after the Kornilov affair - the Provisional Government was hopeless | 21 | |
| 4183035754 | When did Lenin write to the BCC to say that 'history will not forgive us' if they did not take power | 12th September | 22 | |
| 4183035755 | What was the BCC's reaction to this? | They rejected his plans | 23 | |
| 4183035756 | When did the BCC agree to his plans? | 10th of October, when he arrived in Petrograd and spoke to them face to face | 24 | |
| 4183035757 | Which 2 senior Bolsheviks strongly believed that the time was not right for revolution? | Zinoviev and Kamenev | 25 | |
| 4183035758 | Why did these 2 believe that the time was not right? | Because they thought that it would lead to a civil war that the Bolsheviks would ultimately be defeated in | 26 | |
| 4183035759 | When did Trotsky urge Lenin to wait until before launching a seizure of power? | 26th October as that's when the Second Congress of All-Russian Soviets were meeting as he though that if it appeared that Soviets were behind the seizure then it would give it more legitimacy | 27 | |
| 4183035760 | What was Kerensky's initial response to the growing crisis? | He attempted to send the radical army units out of the capital | 28 | |
| 4183035761 | What did the Soviet do in response to this? | Set up the MRC to help defend them incase the was another attempted right-wing coup | 29 | |
| 4183035762 | What 3 things did Kerensky do as a last ditch response to try and prevent the Bolsheviks from taking power? | - Tried to close down 2 Bolshevik newspapers - Tried to restrict power of the MRC - Tried to raise the bridge linking the working class districts to the centre of Petrograd | 30 | |
| 4183035765 | What was the Bolshevik response to this? | They said that Kerensky was trying to launch an attack on the Soviet and Revolution, giving them the prefect excuse to attack, consequently Kerensky fled the city | 31 | |
| 4183035766 | What was the Bolsheviks headquarters called? | the Smolney Institute | 32 | |
| 4183035767 | What Happened on the night of 24th-25th of October? | Units of the red guard, soldiers and sailors were sent out to seize key points in the city such as bridges, railway stations and power stations | 33 | |
| 4183035768 | What happened on the night of 25th-26th of October | the Bolsheviks decided to storm the palace and at 2AM entered and arrested what remained of the government | 34 | |
| 4183035769 | Who was there to defend the palace from the Bolsheviks? | Cadets from a military school, 200 members of the Women's Death Battalion and 2 divisions of Cossacks | 35 | |
| 4183035770 | How did the Bolsheviks manage to pass a majority for the revolution at the All-Russian Congress? | The other socialist parties stormed out, leaving only Bolsheviks and left-wing SRs | 36 | |
| 4183035771 | What 3 things did Lenin announce upon arriving at the All-Russian Congress? | - Formation of a Bolshevik government - Immediate moves the end the war - Decree transferring land the peasants | 37 | |
| 4183035774 | Did the Bolsheviks face much of a challenge upon immediately securing power? | Yes, faced 10 days of fighting in Moscow with Prov Gov troops and in other towns as well an attempt to reseize power by Kerensky and general Krasnov | 38 | |
| 4183035775 | What was the Bolshevik party membership in Feb 1917 compared to October? | Feb: 10,000 October: 250,000 | 39 | |
| 4183035777 | What percentage of the votes did the SRs, Mensheviks, Kadets and Bolsheviks get in the Nov 1917 Constituent Assembly elections? | SRs: 53% Bolsheviks: 24% Kadets: 5% Mensheviks: 3% | 40 |
