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HWSIII CH 14 Sec1
Chapter 14 Revolution and Nationalism Sec1 Revolutions is Russia
Question | Answer |
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Trans-Siberian Railway | worlds longest continuous rail line begun in 1891 and completed in 1916 with the help of British and French investors; the railway connected European Russia in the west to Russian ports on the Pacific Ocean in the east |
Proletariat | the workers |
Mensheviks | one of the two groups formed when Russian Marxists split in 1903 whose goals were more moderate, they wanted a broad base of popular support for the revolution |
Bolsheviks | the more radical of the two groups that supported a smaller amount of committed revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for change (their leader was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov who later adopted the name of Lenin) |
Lenin | former Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov who had an engaging personality- was an excellent organizer and leader of the Bolsheviks; |
Bloody Sunday | January 22, 1905 about 200,000 workers and their families approached the czars winter palace in St. Petersburg with a petition asking for better working conditions, more personal freedom and an elected national legislature |
Duma | Russia’s first parliament approved by Nicholas that first met in May of 1906 |
Rasputin | a self described Holy man who claimed to have magical healing powers |
Provisional Government | temporary government |
Soviets | local councils consisting of workers, peasants and soldiers; |
Alexander Kerensky | headed the provisional government set up by the Duma |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | signed by Russia and Germany in March of 1918 |