17 - Lenin And The Bolshevik Takeover, April-October 1917

Question 1

Where did Lenin return from after being exiled in April 1917? What famous speech did he give when he returned?

Answer 1

Switzerland

The April Theses

Question 2

What did Lenin demand about power in the April Theses? What did he want to end?

Answer 2

All power is given to the Soviet

War

Question 3

Who did Lenin want land for? What was he accepting about Russia?

Answer 3

Peasants

Peasants were wanted to rule Russia

Question 4

Who did the April Theses unite with Lenin? What Committee did he manage to win over?

Answer 4

Bolsheviks

Central Committee

Question 5

Who did Lenin believe in non-co-operation with?

Answer 5

Provisional Government

Question 6

Who joined Lenin in July 1917? When did he return from exile?

Answer 6

Trotsky

May

Question 7

What threatened to undermine Lenin’s efforts in July? Who did this event attract?

Answer 7

Uprisings

Bolsheviks

Question 8

Who did the Provisional Government use to break up the protests in July? What happened to several prominent Bolshevik leaders?

Answer 8

Troops

They were arrested

Question 9

What key figure was arrested along the Bolsheviks in July 1917? Who fled to Finland?

Answer 9

Trotsky

Lenin

Question 10

Who became PM in July 1917? Who became commander-in-chief?

Answer 10

Kerensky

General Lavr Kornilov

Question 11

What did Kornilov believe he could restore? Who did he prepare to bring?

Answer 11

Strong government

Troops from Petrograd

Question 12

Who opposed Kornilov’s “coup”? When did the “coup” take place?

Answer 12

Kerensky

25th-30th August 1917

Question 13

Who did Kornilov ask to help defend the city during the “coup”? Who else was given weaponry?

Answer 13

Petrograd Soviet

Bolsheviks

Question 14

Who halted trains carrying troops? Who had Kornilov arrested?

Answer 14

Railway workers

Kerensky

Question 15

Whose support increased following the Kornilov Affair? Whose position did it weaken?

Answer 15

Bolsheviks

Kerensky’s

Question 16

Who refused compromise with the PG? Who did they grow at the expense of?

Answer 16

Bolsheviks

Mensheviks and SRs

Question 17

What did SRs and Mensheviks urge in Russia? Who did they work with?

Answer 17

Unity

PG

Question 18

In what 2 Soviets did Bolsheviks get a majority in September 1917? Who became chairman of the second soviet?

Answer 18

Moscow and Petrograd

Trotsky

Question 19

How many Bolsheviks were there in October 1917? How many Red Guards?

Answer 19

200,000

10,000

Question 20

What did Lenin urge from Finland? What were the Bolshevik Central Committee reluctant to do?

Answer 20

Seizure of power

Lead an uprising against the PG

Question 21

What was needed for the Bolshevik Central Committee to lead an uprising?

Answer 21

A mandate from an assembly

Question 22

Who returned secretly to Petrograd on the 7th October 1917? What did Kerensky order on the same day?

Answer 22

Lenin

Radical troops left Petrograd

Question 23

What did the PS set up on the 9th October 1917? Who set this up?

Answer 23

Military Revolutionary Committee

Trotsky

Question 24

What did the Military Revolutionary Committee claim responsibility for?

Answer 24

Defence of Petrograd

Question 25

What vote did Lenin win on the 10th October 1917? What did he want replaced?

Answer 25

An “armed uprising”

The PG with the PS

Question 26

How many Red Guards and Kronstadt sailors seized Petrograd between the 24th-25th October 1917? Who fled Petrograd?

Answer 26

8,000

Kerensky

Question 27

Who broke into the Winter Palace on the 26th October 1917? Who was arrested?

Answer 27

Red Guards and civilians

Remaining PG members

Question 28

What does Historian Edward Acton state about the 1917 Revolution?

Answer 28

“The 1917 Revolution was the product of popular revolt against oppression”

Question 29

What does Historian Richard Pipes state about what Russia experienced that led to a bring down of the Tsarist regime?

Answer 29

“Russia experienced a revolution that brought down Tsarism”