Developments between the revolutions

Question 1

When did Lenin return to Russia?

What did he publish in those next few weeks?

Answer 1

3rd April

April Thesis

Question 2

When did Trotsky join the Bolsheviks?

Answer 2

2nd July

Question 3

When were Bolshevik leaders incl Trotsky arrested?

What was Lenin’s response?

Answer 3

3-7th July

Lenin fled to Finland

Question 4

When was Trotsky made head of the Petrograd Soviet

Answer 4

September 1917

Question 5

When did Lenin attend a Bolshevik Central Committee meeting and call for a Bolshevik led revolution?

Answer 5

10th October

Question 6

When was the military revolutionary committee set up and under whom?

Answer 6

16th October

Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky

Question 7

Name the number of members in the Bolshevik party in feb/march 1917?

Answer 7

23,000

Question 8

How many representatives in the Soviet of 1500 were Bolshevik in March 1917

Answer 8

40 representatives

Question 9

Who were the 1st Bolsheviks to reach Petrograd after the Feb revolution?
What did they take control of and what did they believe?

Answer 9

Lev Kamenev and Stalin took control of the Party newspaper, Pravda.
They supported the PG, the continuation of the war and Soviet leadership.

Question 10

Who did Lenin enlist the help of to return to Russia?

Who did he travel with / on what/ and through where?

Answer 10

German help
31 comrades on a sealed train with one carridge from Switzerland through Germany,neurtal Sweden then Finland to Petrograd.

Question 11

How long has Lenin been in exile?

Answer 11

17 years - bar 6 months from 1905-1906

Question 12

When did Lenin write his ‘letters from afar’?

What did he state?

Answer 12

1-26th March

Party job to lead a 2nd revolution

Question 13

What were the April Thesis demands?

What 3 words can this be summed up as?

Answer 13

No support for PG
War immediately ended.
Power transferred to the Soviet
All land allocated to peasants

PEACE LAND BREAD

Question 14

What were the opposition faced by Lenin in his party?

Answer 14

Some feared Lenin had grown out of touch during exile with his radical proposition.
Allegation of Lenin being in the pay of the Germans
Lenin was seen as unrealistic

Question 15

Describe how Lenin overcame the opposition to a 2nd revolution

Answer 15

Skills of persuasion
threats of resignation
compromise by abandoning his call for immediate overthrow of the PG

Question 16

What event did Lenin take credit for in April 1917?

What did it lead to in the party?

Answer 16

Anti-war demonstration in Petrograd after Milyukov announced the war would continue until victory
later he resigned
Majority support of the CC by force of personality

Question 17

When the 1st All russian congress of Soviets met on June 3 what did they pass a vote of confidence on?
How many were for and against?

Answer 17

Confidence in the Provisional Government

543 to 126

Question 18

When were the July Days?

Answer 18

3-5 July

Question 19

Describe the July Days

Who was demonstrating?

Answer 19

Kronstadt naval base with Bolshevik slogans

B failed attempt to make it peaceful when shots were fired at the demonstors

Question 20

Describe the July Days
Who was demonstrating?
Why?

Answer 20

20,000 Kronstadt naval base with Bolshevik slogans , looted, attacked property
B failed attempt to make it peaceful when shots were fired at the demonstors
closure of 586 factories loss of 100,000 jobs

Question 21

How were the Bolsheviks affected by the July days?

Answer 21

Pravada offices closed
lenin and Stalin fled (Lenin was on holiday returned then fled)
Trotsky and Kamenev imprisoned
Izvestia newspaper denounced Lenin as working for Germany

Question 22

When was the Kornilov Coup?

Answer 22

August 1917

Question 23

By October 1917 how much were prices above pre-war level?

Answer 23

c.755 %

Question 24

What laws were passed against factory workers in August?

Answer 24

Right for factory owners to dismiss strikers and meeting of factory soviet in working hours were forbidden

Question 25

In the Kornilov Coup
who led it
how many regiments were sent to march on where?
How did Krensky react?

Answer 25

Kornilov coup
6 regiments to petrograd
Krensky panicked and asked them to stop when then didn’t released Bolsheviks + gave workers weapons to stop them

Question 26

Name the Bolshevik membership in the beginning of the October?

Answer 26

200,000

Question 27

How many Bolshevik newspapers were published in October?

Answer 27

41

Question 28

How many were in the Red Guard in October?

Answer 28

100,000

Question 29

What did Kerensky do on Oct 5

Answer 29

send radical army unit out of Petrograd to prepare for front line service

Question 30

What resolution did the Soviet adopt after Krensky mobilized troops?
When? Why?

Answer 30

9th of October
Claims of Krensky abandoning capital to the Germans
Created own military revolution centre, written by Trotsky

Question 31

Who in the party was strongly against a 2nd revolution?

what did they do to prevent Lenin’s messages being read?

Answer 31

Kamenev and Zinoviev

Burnt some of Lenin’s letters

Question 32

When did Lenin slip back into Russia in October?

Answer 32

October 10th

Question 33

What was the vote for and against Lenin’s revolution?

Answer 33

10 to 2

Question 34

Describe Trotsky’s final preparations for the revolutions

Answer 34

sent speakers in factories to rally support
66 member military revolution committee - 48 Bolshevik
Commissars sent to garrison units- 15/18 declare allegiance to Soviet

Question 35

How many were in the Military Revolutionary Committee?

Answer 35

200,000 Red Guard
60,000 Baltic Soldiers
150,000 Petrograd Garrison soldiers

Question 36

How many died and were wounded in the June offensive?

Answer 36

40k died

20k wounded