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Russian Revolution V
Vargo Russia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |