Russian Revolution

Question 1

In the Spring; Came before the October uprising; was said to have been a spontaneous uprising

Answer 1

February/March Revolution

Question 2

In the Fall; Where the Russian provisional government was overthrown by the party under Vladimir Lenin (Bolsheviks); coup de tat

Answer 2

October/Bolshevik Revolution

Question 3

Document that gave freedom for people of all classes on newspapers

Answer 3

Lenin’s Decree on the Press

Question 4

Document that said people who own property should work on their property; caused nobility to lose their property to peasants

Answer 4

Lenin’s Decree on Land

Question 5

Document that created the Cheka and murdered a lot of peasants who were thought to be hoarding resources

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Lenin’s Decree Giving the Food Commissariat Extraordinary Powers to Combat Village Bourgeoisie Who Were Concealing and Speculating on Grain Reserves

Question 6

Document that said people had to go to the government to get a divorce, not the church

Answer 6

Decree on the Dissolution of Marriage

Question 7

Document that said certificates of couple unity and other documents would be under the government, not the church

Answer 7

Decree on Civic Marriages, on Children, and on the Introduction of Books or Records

Question 8

Big document that officially divided the government and education of Russia from religious establishments

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Lenin’s Decree of the Separation of the Church from the State and the Schools from the Church

Question 9

Document that created ruling bodies for poor people and factory employees

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Lenin’s Decree on Establishment of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government

Question 10

Document that disbanded the Duma

Answer 10

Lenin’s Decree on the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly

Question 11

The Duma is an example; was a non-responsive government; another name for constituent assembly

Answer 11

Provisional Government

Question 12

Another name for provisional government; the duma was an example; non responsive government

Answer 12

Constituent Assembly

Question 13

News sources that were controlled by the Bolshevik government

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Pravda and Investia

Question 14

Second Prime Minister of Russian provisional government; overthrown by Lenin

Answer 14

Alexander Kerensky

Question 15

Family that the Red Army wanted to murder because they were associated with the Tsar

Answer 15

The Romanovs

Question 16

Former overthrown leader of Russia; part of the Romanovs

Answer 16

Czar Nicholas II

Question 17

Girl that tried to assassinate Lenin

Answer 17

Fanya Kaplan

Question 18

Bolshevik revolutionary leader who was assassinated

Answer 18

Moisei Uritzky

Question 19

Train tracks that Czechoslovakians took over while going back home from WWI

Answer 19

Trans-Siberian Railway

Question 20

Goes against the Reds; largely Mensheviks, but very split up in purpose/nationalism/ethnicity

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White Army

Question 21

People who were part of the party under Vladimir Lenin/ Communists

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Bolsheviks

Question 22

Party that was formed under Marxist beliefs who were similar the Bolsheviks

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Mensheviks

Question 23

Party that won in the election against the Bolsheviks; but the Bolsheviks deemed themselves as the winners anyway

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Social Revolutionaries

Question 24

A party made of people mainly the nobility who were for Nicholas II; against the Bolsheviks

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Tsarists

Question 25

Head of the Bolsheviks; wrote many decrees

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Vladimir Lenin

Question 26

Document between Russia and Central Powers to allow Russia to leave WWI

Answer 26

Treaty of Brest-Litvosk

Question 27

Nomadic peoples who like the tsar because he left them alone; part of the White army; fierce soldiers

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Cossacks

Question 28

Soldier force made up of Bolsheviks and poor people

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Worker Peasant Red Army

Question 29

Program in a country that forced you to go to war

Answer 29

Conscription

Question 30

After they took TransSiberian RR these people revolted; another word for revolted

Answer 30

Czech Uprising

Question 31

Russian group that were really aggressive and killed many people and had unlimited power against peasants who were suspected of hoarding grain

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Checka

Question 32

Guy with Last name of Anton who headed the South Russian White Army; had an army called Kornilov

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Deniken

Question 33

Guy who had Gold; Leader of eastern white army; turned over to the Bolsheviks by the Czechs;

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Alexander Kolchack

Question 34

Leader of North West White Army; couldn’t get their support;

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Nikoli Yudenich

Question 35

Leader of the Red Guard or the Worker-Peasant Bolshevik Army

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Trotsky

Question 36

Precious metal that belonged to the leader of the East White Army

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Kolchak’s Gold

Question 37

Soldier force of Committee Assembly of Social Revolutionaries; part of White Eastern Army

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Komuch People’s Army

Question 38

Horrible event when Kolchack murders a lot of Social Revolutionaries; opposite of Red Army

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White Terror

Question 39

Massacre of ethnic group like Armenian genocide or holocaust

Answer 39

Pogroms

Question 40

This occurred when the Bolsheviks nationalized everything while they were under a period of attack; everyone had an equal share of everything

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War Communism

Question 41

Another name for “Operation Polar Bear”; European and Western countries wanted to reopen the eastern front

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Archangel Expedition

Question 42

Horrible event where Bolsheviks killed off a lot of people after they took over

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Red Terror

Question 43

Unsuccessful uprise against the Bolsheviks

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Kronstadt Rebellion

Question 44

No food; affected Bolshevik Russia the most during their civil war

Answer 44

1921 Famine

Question 45

Document by Lenin after the Civil war; another name called “state capitalism”

Answer 45

New Economic Policy

Question 46

Russian farmers who were better off than peasants but less than the nobles

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Kulaks

Question 47

Event where there was an imbalance of the farming economy

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Scissors Crisis

Question 48

First people on a land

Answer 48

Pioneers

Question 49

Soviet Youth Organization; brain washed kids into communism

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Komsomols

Question 50

Soviet experimental artistic institution

Answer 50

Proletcult

Question 51

Official censorship organization in Soviet Russia

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Main Administration for Affairs of Literature and Publishing Houses

Question 52

Main religious denomination in Soviet Russia

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Orthodox Church

Question 53

Anti religious, atheist political group

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Union of the Militant Godless

Question 54

Another name for Russia; what the acronym stands for

Answer 54

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Question 55

Country that borders on Russia

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Ukraine

Question 56

Document between Germany and Russia after Brest-Litvosk saying that renounced what they said

Answer 56

Treaty of Rapallo

Question 57

Executive committee for communist political parties by Bolsheviks

Answer 57

Politburo

Question 58

Lenin did this to avoid parties separating even further

Answer 58

Ban on Factions

Question 59

Port city in Soviet Russia

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Murmansk

Question 60

Biggest port in Russia

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Vladivostok

Question 61

Supreme governing body of the USSR

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Congress of Soviets