Russian Revolution

What was the political ideology of the Bolsheviks?

• Communists

• Capitalists

• Monarchists

• Anarchists

Who was the commissar of war that organized the Red Army, and reinstated the draft and a strict form of discipline?

Hint: He was leader of the Petrograd Soviets.

• Trotsky

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Nicholas II

Match the following:

• Communists

• What made it easy for the Communist government to call on patriotic Russians to fight on their side?

• Centralized state dominated by a single party.

• What was Russia transformed into?

• The presence of foreign troops

• By 1921, who took command of Russia?

Who were the various groups that were opposed to the new Bolshevik or Communist government?

• Liberals

• The Allies

  (U.S., Great Britain, and France)

• Czar Loyalists

• Anti-Leninist Socialists

• The Central Powers

  (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire)

Identify the correct military and the country that experienced the civil war:

• the Red Army

• Communist Army

• the White Army

• Anti-Communist Army

• Russia

• Nation that experienced a civil war for three years:

What will happened when soldiers refused to obey order or deserted?

• executed on the spot

• place in jail indefinitely

• served the military for life

• paid an extravagant amount of money

What were the three simple slogans that the Bolshevik program used?

• Soviets

• Peace, Land, and...

• Production

• All power to the...

• Bread

• Workers Control of...

Place the events that led to the rise of Lenin and Bolsheviks in chronological order:

• Russian provisional government forms and its gives an opportunity for the Bolsheviks to take power.

• Lenin believes that the Bolsheviks should use the soldiers, workers, and peasants to overthrow the provisional government.

• German military leaders hope to create disorder in Russia and planned to shipped Lenin to Russia.

• Germans makes sure Lenin does not expose his ideas to the German people and transport him in a sealed train.

What did a policy of War Communism looked in practice?

• the government controlled banks

• the government controlled most industries

• the government created a centralized state administration

• the government took grain from peasants

• the government allowed free-enterprise

After taking power, within the Congress of Soviets, who led the council?

• Trotsky

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Nicholas II