The Revolution That Shaped Russia | National Geographic

Prior to the 1900s, most of Russia's population were:

• poor, peasant farmers

• wealthy aristocrats

• middle class

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A monarchy is:

• a political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a single person.

• a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

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Russia was thriving economically before World War I.

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Tsar Nicholas II stepped down in:

• 1916

• 1917

• 1918

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Democracy was the goal of this revolution.

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• false

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Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Party?

• Vladimir Lenin

• mikhail Gorbachev

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Was democracy achieved?

• yes

• no

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Communism is:

• a theory advocating the elimination of private property and a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed.

• a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.

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The Soviet Union was a friend of democracy and the United States.

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• false

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