Two Revolutions in Russia Flashcards

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