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Russian Revolution V
Vargo Russia
Question | Answer |
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Term for Russian Communist | Bolshevik |
Head of the Russian Provisional Government in 1917 | Kerensky |
Soviet Leader who instituted the Great Purge in the 1930s | Stalin |
USSR stands for | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
Russian revolutionary who was the first head of the USSR | Lenin |
Railroad stretching from Europe Russia to Vladivostok | Trans-Siberian Railroad |
Term for local governments set up in 19thC Russia by Alexander II | Zemstvos |
Leader of the Red Army during the Russian Revolution | Trotsky |
Self proclaimed holy man who advised the Czar | Rasputin |
Rare blood disorder suffered by Alexei | Hemophilia |
The last Czar of Russia | Nicholas II |
Last ruling family of Russia | Romanov |
Term for councils of soldiers, workers or peasants in Russia | Soviets |
Organized massacres of Jewish villages | Pogroms |
According to the Gregorian Calendar the Bolshevik Revolution took place in | November |
Treaty that ended the Russian involvement in WWI | Brest-Litousk |
Communist newspaper whose name means "truth" | Pravda |
Czar Nicholas I died in the midst of this conflict | Crimean WAr |
Nickname for the hanging noose | Stolypin Necktie |
3 Promises made to the Russian people by Lenin | Peace, Land, Bread |
Term for Russian/Soviet secret police | Cheka |
Term for Russian parliament after the Revolution of 1905 | Duma |
Last Romanov Czar of Russia | Nicholas II |
Was poisoned, shot and beaten and drowned in 1916 | Rasputin |
Marxist term for the lower class factory workers | Proletariat |
Treaty of Portsmouth ended this war | Russo - Japanese |
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia | 1917 |
Russian Czar during the Crimean War | Nicholas I |
Russian Revolt in 1825 after the death of Alexander I | Decembrist |
Country where Trotsky was assassinated in 1940 | Mexico |
Kiev was built along this river | Dnieper |
Pictures destroyed in the Orthodox Churches | Icons |
Term for Russian Nobels | Boyars |
Term for Russian Emperor | Czar |