year 12 half yearly- Russia

Question 1

the march revolution: 1917

Answer 1

• huge crowds demand the tsar to abdicate
• the duma prepares to form a government to take power from the tsar
• Orlando Figs- “revolution was on everyones lips”
• W. H Chamberlin: collapse of Russian autocracy
• the tsar abdicates on the 15th march 1917

Question 2

lenin and the April thesis:

Answer 2

• “peace, bread and land”
• lenin returned April 3rd in a sealed German train and delivered his April thesis- set bolsheviks apart from other political groups

Question 3

the October coup:

Answer 3

• on the night of October 24th, the military revolutionary committee was taking over pertrogrd institutions
• on October 25th, the bolsheviks broke into the winter palace where kerne sky and his government were and took over

Question 4

the Cheka

Answer 4

• in December 1917, lenin established the Cheka was became a force of more than 100000 and a massive state-wide police force
• became the GPU and was now known as the NKVD
• The NKVD was no longer controlled by the party, it controlled the party
• Khlrivik 2015