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Russia 1917

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What political party typically represented the peasantry?

a)

Mensheviks

b)

Bolsheviks

c)

SR's

d)

Kadets

2.

What term is given to the constant removal of government ministers by the Tsarina Alexandra?

a)

Routine sackings

b)

Turnover

c)

Ministerial Removal

d)

Ministerial Leapfrog

3.

What event marked the 23rd of February 1917?

a)

The abdication of the Tsar

b)

International Women's Day

c)

The mutiny of the Petrograd Garrison

d)

The end of WWI

4.

What is the name of the area of Petrograd that had many factories?

a)

Vyborg District

b)

Vyshinsky

c)

Putilov

d)

Moscow

5.

Bolshevik leaders planned and led the February Revolution.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

6.

Orland Figes argued that " The mutiny of the ..... turned the disorders of the last four days into full scale revolution". Who was he referring to?

a)

Pskov Garrison

b)

The Pavlovsky Regiment

c)

The Petrograd Garrison

d)

The Cossack soldiers

7.

Who's memoirs overstated the importance of the Bolsheviks in February?

a)

Lenin's

b)

Shyliapnikov

c)

Orlando Figes

d)

Nicholas II

8.

Who was a figure in the Provisional Government and the Soviet?

a)

Prince Lvov

b)

Lenin

c)

Milyukov

d)

Alexander Kerensky

9.

According to Order no 1, whose orders did the soldiers have to follow?

a)

Their officers

b)

The Provisional Government

c)

The Provisional Government if the Soviet approved

d)

The Tsar

10.

What building did the Petrograd Soviet and the Provisional Government reside in?

a)

Winter Palace

b)

Tauride Palace

c)

Yusupov Palace

d)

The Summer Palace

11.

What political group wanted to fight a defensive war only?

a)

socialists

b)

liberals

c)

conservatives

12.

What political group wanted to maintain the integrity of the empire?

a)

Liberals

b)

Socialists

c)

Neither

13.

Which political group wanted to wait for a constituent assembly to deal with the issue of peasant land?

a)

Liberals

b)

Socialists

c)

Both

d)

Neither