Russian Revolution

Which event best replaces the question mark in this sequence?

Russia 1917-1918

• Czar Nicholas II gives up Russian Imperial throne

• ?

• Bolsheviks seized power and became the Communist Party

• Russia signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers

• A. Vladimir Lenin returned to lead the Russian Revolution

• B. Leon Trotsky escaped Russia for exile in Mexico

• C. The Russian government adopted the New Economic Policy

• D. The Red Army won the Russian Civil War

What was the major consequence of the February Revolution of 1917?

• A. It forced Kerensky to surrender to the Bolsheviks.

• B. It secured Stalin as leader of Russia.

• C. It allowed Trotsky to negotiate peace with Germany.

• D. It forced Tsar Nicholas II to give up the throne.

Which group of people revolted against the Russian revolutionary provisional government in 1917?

• A.  the Bolsheviks 
• B. the Czarists 
• C. the nobility 
• D. the clergy

Which event was a main cause of the Petrograd Uprising that began the Russian Revolution?

• A.  severe food shortages 
• B. Tsar Nicholas II’s abdication 
• C. major military desertions 
• D. Vladimir Lenin’s return from exile

Which leader was most influenced by Marxist ideology?

• A.  Adolf Hitler 
• B. David Lloyd George 
• C. V.I. Lenin 
• D. Woodrow Wilson

Russian Empire was ruled by ______

• Bourbon Dynasty

• Romanov Dynasty

The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was a major turning

point in history because

• Russia became the first nation with a

  Communist economic system

• it was the last revolution in the 20th century

• Russia ceased to be an important force in

  world affairs

• the royal family was exiled to Mexico

A major reason many Russian people supported the

Bolsheviks in the November 1917 revolution was that the

Bolsheviks called for

• an immediate peace settlement with Germany

• a heavy investment in industry

• the collectivization of agriculture

• the abolition of all religion

Which slogan is associated with the Bolshevik (Russian) Revolution?

• "An eye for an eye"

• "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"

• "Take up the White Man's Burden"

• "Peace, Land, Bread"

". . . The replacement of the bourgeois by the

proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution.

The abolition of the proletarian state, i.e., of all states, is

only possible through 'withering away.' . . ."

— V. I. Lenin, State and Revolution, 1917

This quotation is associated with the principles of...

• imperialism

• capitalism

• communism

• militarism