Russia - AoS 2 - Key Individuals

Between when was Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) out of Russia?

• 1890 (when he discovered Marxism) and October 1917

• 1906 and 1917

• 1900 (after his release from Siberia) and 1905

• 1900 (when he founded Iskra) and 1918

What was Leon Trotsky's place in revolutionary politics?

• initially as an independent between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks, then a supporter of Lenin after the July Days of 1917

• a founding member of the Bolshevik Party from 1903 until it became the Communist Party in 1918

• a link between the Bolsheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs)

• a link between the Bolsheviks and the Anarchists

What did the prominent Bolshevik leader Lev Kamenev do?

• supported Lenin unquestionably on all policies

• disagreed with Lenin on crucial issues such as the October insurrection

• helped Lenin organise the strategic and the military aspects of the October revolution

• challenged Lenin for the position of leader

What did the prominent Bolshevik leader Alexandra Kollontai do?

• first suggested the October insurrection

• was interested primarily in peasant affairs

• was intered in both women's issues and labour issues

• crossed over to join the Mensheviks

What was Alexander Kerensky's political position in revolutionary politics?

• an SR who was a member of both the PG and the Executive of the Petrograd Soviet

• an SR who recommended that Russia should withdraw from WWI asap

• an SR who crossed over to join the Bolsheviks after July 1917

• an SR who believed that all power should belong to the soviets