History

The Russian Revolution

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In this Class 9 History topic from “Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution,” students learn how inequality, Tsarist autocracy, workers’ hardships and the First World War created unrest in Russia. The topic traces the 1905 Revolution, the February Revolution that ended the monarchy, and the October Revolution led by the Bolsheviks under Lenin. It also explains the ideas of socialism, the formation of a socialist state, and the revolution’s effects on Russia and the wider world.

Practice questions

01 Why was the peasant popularity of the Socialist Revolutionary Party a strategic challenge for the Bolsheviks?

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The Russian Revolution

Practice questions

01 Why was the peasant popularity of the Socialist Revolutionary Party a strategic challenge for the Bolsheviks?

02 Why was the Bolshevik idea of a small disciplined party considered useful for preparing revolution?

03 At what point did the Menshevik idea of a broad party differ from the Bolsheviks?

04 Why did the policy of Russification intensify the national question against Tsarism?

05 How did rising prices and stagnant wages in 1904 make workers' unrest political?

06 What tendency of Tsarism is shown by repeatedly dissolving the Duma after 1905?

07 Why is the strike of women workers in February 1917 considered an active beginning of the Revolution?

08 Tsar Nicholas II's abdication was the result of which wider process?

09 Why did dual power after the February Revolution increase the possibility of the October Revolution?

10 How did the war policy of the Provisional Government weaken its legitimacy?

11 Why is Lenin's April Theses considered a turning point in Bolshevik strategy?

12 What alternative idea of power was present in the slogan all power to the Soviets?

13 Why was the class appeal of the slogan peace land and bread so strong?

14 What practical lesson did Bolshevik leadership learn from the July 1917 events?

15 How did the Kornilov Affair reverse the positions of the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks?

16 In what form did the Military Revolutionary Committee organise the October Revolution?

17 What was the importance of Soviet support in the success of the October Revolution?

18 How did the Land Decree show the social nature of the Bolshevik Revolution?

19 How is the relation between policy and practice seen in the Decree on Peace and the Treaty of Brest Litovsk?

20 How did nationalisation of banks and large industries show the class character of Bolshevik power?

21 Why was the policy of workers' control in factories necessary for Bolshevik legitimacy?

22 How did dissolving the Constituent Assembly clash with Bolshevik democratic claims?

23 What tension between security and freedom after the Revolution is shown by the establishment of Cheka?

24 Why can the Russian Civil War be called a multi sided conflict?

25 Why was the success of the Red Army decisive for the continuation of Bolshevik rule?

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