Russian Revolution Part 2

The Russian Revolution - Part 2

Multiple Select

In part one of the oversimplified overview you learned which of the following concerning Russian society and political leadership? (Please choose all that fit what you learned).

• Russia's society had not modernized the way Western Europe had in the 19th century.

• Alexander II who tried to make reform was attacked and later died at the hand of Russian anarchists.

• Alexander III, after witnessing the death of his father became a repressive leader.

• Nicolaus took power after Alexander III died young and was not prepared to lead.

Reorder

Place the following events in order based on what you learned from part one of oversimplified's Russian Revolution video.

• Alexander II frees all Russian serfs

• Nicolaus II inherits the throne

• The Russo Japanese war goes poorly for Russia

• Nicolaus empowers Stolypin to spy on members of the Duma (The Russian Parliament)

• Russia enters WWI

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Match

Match the following

• Leon Trotsky

• V.I Lenin

• Mensheviks

• Bolsheviks

• Rasputin

The Bolshevik who set's up worker soviets in 1905

The leader of the Bolsheviks

The majority of Marxists in Russia but the name means minority

The minority of Marxists in Russia but name means majority

The strange magic monk that helps the Czar's son with his bleeding problem.

• The Bolshevik who set's up worker soviets in 1905

• The leader of the Bolsheviks

• The majority of Marxists in Russia but the name means minority

• The minority of Marxists in Russia but name means majority

• The strange magic monk that helps the Czar's son with his bleeding problem.

Now onto part 2 - take out your notebooks and get ready to pause and make notes. Here are some questions to guide you:

1. Did most Russian's want a war with Germany or not?

2. How did Rasputin's relationship with the the Czarina and her German heritage create a legitamacy problem for the Czar?

3. How did a war that all Russian people wanted turn so quickly into a nightmare?

Oversimplified Part 2

Multiple Select

Which of the following best represents why the war created problems for Czar Nicolaus? (there may be more than one right answer)

• The Russian army was not as modernized as Germany's.

• The Czar left his wife and Rasputin to lead the people of Petrograd so that he could lead the fighting on the front.

• Rasputin's relationship with the Czarina created doubt in the people's faith in the Czar's ability to lead Russia.

• The war created massive problems for the peasants, soldiers and workers.

Questions to guide you?

​1. What event finally brought the people into the streets to question the Czar and his leadership of Russia?

2. How did the military react both in Petrograd and in their meetings with the Czar?

3. Why did the Czar abdicate and what did his abdication create?

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Onto to the Revolution

• Who controlled the first Revolution?

• How did Lenin feel about the new revolutionary government and it's ruling parts?

• What slogan does Lenin create to gain support from the people?

Multiple Select

V.I Lenin began developing support with the following slogan? Choose all that apply.

• Peace, Land and Bread

• All Power to the Bolsheviks

• All Power to the Mensheviks

• All Power to the Soviet.

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The Provisional Government

• What was Kornilov's coup?

• How did Trotsky and the Bolsheviks help the Provisional Government defeat Kornilov?

• Why did arming the Bolsheviks lead to the provisional governments fall?

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Bolshevik Utopia?

• Why did Lenin decide to call off free elections?

• How did Lenin's leadership look in the first year?

• Why did Lenin move the capital from Petrograd to Moscow?

• Once out of the war, what war occurred in Russia?

• Who won this war and why?

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Finishing up

• What impact did the Russian Civil War have on Lenin's dream of creating a Communist Utopia?

• How did Lenin and Trotsky react?

• Who ended up taking Lenin's place when Lenin died?

Open Ended

What did you learn about the Russian Revolution? Was it one, two or really three different revolutions?