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Unit VI Part 11
War and Revolution
Question | Answer |
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Nicholas II and Alexandra | -Nicholas II: only European in charge of own military -Alexandra: Nicholas's wife who was easily influenced by the Siberian peasant rasputin |
Rasputin | -Siberian peasant who had much influence on the throne of Russia -Gained the tsarina's trust after "miraculously healing" her son -was assassinated |
Petrograd | -Capitol of Russia in which the March revolution began -started by women demanding "peace and bread" |
"Peace, land, and bread" | -cry of the women marching during the March revolution -led to the removal of the tsar from power |
soviets | -Group of radical socialists in Russia -fit with lower class interests |
Bolsheviks | -Marxist Socialist group -promised end to war and hunger, and equal possessions |
V. I. Lenin | -leader of the Bolsheviks who lead the Bolshevik revolution -promised end to war and hunger, and equal possessions |
the "april theses" | -Lenin's blueprint for his Marxist theory -stated that a bourgeois revolution was not needed |
Alexander Kerensky | -slightly socialist leader of the provisional government after soviet rise -released Lenin from prison to help regain power in Petrograd |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | |
Reds and Whites | |
Leon Trotsky | -revolutionary and socialist leader |
"war communism" | |
Alexandra Kollontai and the Zhenotdel | alex |
the Cheka |