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The Russian Revolution

Word List with 17 words
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1917-1918

The years of the Russian Revolution.

Vladimir Lenin

Russian revolutionary leader. Soviet premier in 1918.

Tsar Nicholas II

The last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and King of Poland; abdicated on March 2, 1917, as a result of the February Revolution; executed with wife, Alexandra, and their children by the Bolsheviks.

February Revolution

The phase of the Russian Revolution which removed Tsar Nicholas II from power.

October Revolution

Also known as the Bolshevik Revolution. The phase of the Russian Revolution that overturned the interim provisional government and established the Soviet Union.

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Petrograd

Former name of St. Petersburg where violent demonstrations and riots occurred on the streets before and during the revolution.

provisional government

A temporary government.

coup

A highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or overturn of government.

Bolshevik

A member of the Russian Communist party.

Russian Civil War

A multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party.

Rasputin

Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra; killed to maintain the tsar's credibility in late 1916.

Leon Trotsky

Russian revolutionary and writer. Minister of war in 1918.

April Theses

Ideas for Russia’s future expressed by Vladimir Lenin.

Dual Power

The two governments that Russia had following the February Revolution: the provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet.

duma

A council or official assembly in Russia prior to 1917.

Petrograd Soviet

An underground revolutionary labor union for workers and soldiers in the Petrograd area.

soviet

Any similar council or assembly connected with a socialistic governmental system elsewhere.