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= 895-901: The Russian Revolution =

1. What were conditions like for the Russian military at the beginning of World War One? 2. Why did many Russians come to criticize Tsar Nicholas II? 3. What was the deal with Tsarina Alexandra and Rasputin? 4. What happened in Petrograd in March 1917 (this is often called the March Revolution)? 5. What democratic reforms did the Provisional Government quickly make? 6. What kinds of reforms did the Provisional Government under the leadership of Alexander Kerensky, refuse to make? Why? 7. What was the Petrograd Soviet and how did it work against the authority of the Provisional Government? 8. What was Lenin’s background? 9. What was Lenin’s take on Marx’s ideas (what were his “three interrelated ideas”)?9897-898 10. Explain the disagreement that led to the formation of the Bolshevik and Menshevik parties in 1903. 11. What were Lenin’s views on World War One? What did the Germans do with/for Lenin in April 1917 and why? 12. What kinds of slogans did Lenin start using when he got to Petrograd? 13. How did Leon Trotsky bring about the revolution that overthrew the Provisional Government (this is often called the November Revolution or Bolshevik Revolution)? 14. Your book says, “The Bolsheviks came to power for three key reasons,” List them. 15. “The truly monumental accomplishment of Lenin, Trotsky, and the rest of the Bolsheviks was not taking power but _ .” 16. What were Lenin’s first two major decrees (regarding peasants and workers)? 17. What deal did Lenin make with Germany in December 1917 (the formal treaty was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, March 1918)? Why did he agree to this? 18. What happened when the Bolsheviks allowed for free elections to create a Constituent Assembly to write a new constitution? How did the Bolsheviks respond? 19. Civil War followed. What were the two sides? 20. Your textbook says of the Civil War, “Lenin and the Bolsheviks won for several reasons. List them 21. How did war communism work? 22. What was the Cheka and what role did it play? 23. Why did WWI pave the way for such a radical change in Russia like the Bolshevik takeover? 901