288522273 | Duma | first elected government | 1 | |
288522274 | moderates | wanted constitution and a social change | 2 | |
288522275 | Nicholas II | czar during the March Revolution | 3 | |
288522276 | Beauraucracy | corrupt; nobles, army officers | 4 | |
288522277 | Court System | overburdened during the March Revolutions | 5 | |
288522278 | Revolutionaries | devised radical plots to overthrow the czar | 6 | |
288522279 | Proletariat | growing class of workers | 7 | |
288522280 | Impact of World War I | gave united Russians a sense of nationalist pride; strained Russian resources | 8 | |
288522281 | 1915 | 2 million Russians are dead | 9 | |
288522282 | Rasputin | "Mad Monk"; a holy man who could heal people and could communicate with Mary and Jesus; stays behind with czarina to rule Russia during WWI; hated by many people; many tried to kill him | 10 | |
288522283 | Alexi | son of Alexandra; has hemophilia; czarovich | 11 | |
288522284 | collapse of monarchy | women try to protest, demanding food; czar's guards first want to kill them but then decide to join them | 12 | |
288522285 | March 1917 | czar is overthrown and a provisional government is put in place | 13 | |
288522286 | provisional government | new type of government, led by Alexander Kerensky; as a result, the czar abdicates and is placed under house arrest | 14 | |
288522287 | soviets | local council of soldiers and workers who asked for rights and money | 15 | |
288522288 | Bolsheviks | radical socialist group that wanted a Communist government | 16 | |
288522289 | Lenin's background | born into a middle class family; older brother is executed for speaking out against the czar; sent to Siberia because he spoke out against the czar; he is later exiled to Switzerland | 17 | |
288522290 | Lenin's Early Career | he read the works of Karl Marx | 18 | |
288522291 | 1895 | Lenin is arrested and sent to Siberia | 19 | |
288522292 | what Lenin called for | dictatorship of the proletariat | 20 | |
288522293 | March 1917 | Lenin is in exile | 21 | |
288522294 | April 16, 1917 | Lenin returns to Russia | 22 | |
288522295 | Provisional government | attacked by the Red Guards | 23 | |
288522296 | Red Guards | attack provisional government and take over, turning Russia into a Communist state | 24 | |
288522297 | Treaty of Brest Litovsk | what takes Russia out of WWI | 25 | |
288522298 | Bolsheviks | take over and try to suppress the conservatives | 26 | |
288522299 | reds | communists | 27 | |
288522300 | whites | counter-revolutionaries; allies supported them | 28 | |
288522301 | nationalists | took arms against the Red Army | 29 | |
288522302 | Counterrevolutionaries | slaughtered and captured communists; tried to kill Lenin | 30 | |
288522303 | Communists | launched their own reign of terror | 31 | |
288522304 | war communism | policy adopted by communists to take over banks, mines, and factories | 32 | |
288522305 | Leon Trotsky | turned the Red Army into an effective fighting force; worked with Lenin | 33 | |
288522306 | commisors | communist party officials | 34 | |
288522307 | 1921 | the Red Army wins | 35 |
Two Revolutions in Russia Flashcards
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