Russian Revolution

A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia’s government in November 1917. (p. 773)

• Fascist Party of Russia

• Democratic Party of Russia

• Bolsheviks

• White Army

One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas II. (p. 776)

• Congress

• Duma

• Reichstag

• Soviets

A political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin: originally the Russian Bolshevik Party. (p. 779)

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Fascism

• Monarchism

In Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia. (p. 773)

• Nobility

• Proletariat

• Clergy

• Peasantry

A temporary government. (p. 776)

• Provisional Government

• A Monarchy

• A Republic

• A Dictatoriship

(1870-1924) ______ was a communist revolutionary who helped bring an end to Imperial rule in Russia. He, with other notable Bolsheviks later established the Soviet Union. (p. 774)

• Stalin

• Hitler

• Lenin

• Tojo

(1879 - 1953) ______ was a communist revolutionary, along with Vladimir Lenin, who helped overthrow the imperial regime in Russia. After Lenin’s death, ______ assumed control of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian dictator. (p. 785)

• Hitler

• Stalin

• Roosevelt

• Churchill

Self-described “holy man” who claimed to have magical powers. _______ gained access to the royal family and influenced their decision. He died in 1916 when a group of Russian nobles assassinated him. (p. 755)

• Queen Elizabeth II

• Kaiser Wilhelm II

• Czar Nicholas II

• Rasputin