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Unit VI Part 11
War and Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |