History
The Russian Revolution
रूसी क्रांति
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
How did the demand for bread become a political demand in the February Revolution of 1917?Why is the action of women workers in February 1917 given structural importance in the Russian Revolution?What power crisis is shown by soldiers joining workers in the February Revolution?Tsar Nicholas II's abdication symbolised which deeper historical change?Why was the legitimacy of the Provisional Government weak after the February Revolution?In the situation of dual power what was the basis of the Soviets' strength?How did Lenin's April Theses expose the limits of the February Revolution?Why was the slogan All power to the Soviets most effective against the Provisional Government?How did the Bolsheviks connect anti-war feeling with class politics?How did the Provisional Government's continuation of war become a reason for its political defeat?Why did the Bolshevik programme on the land question mobilise peasants?What was the main organisational reason for Bolshevik success in the October Revolution?Why was the importance of the Military Revolutionary Committee not only military but political?Why did the capture of the Winter Palace become a decisive symbol in the October Revolution?What priority of the Bolsheviks became clear from the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?State control over banks and industries after the October Revolution indicated which ideological shift?What deeper change in Russian society was targeted by changes in land relations?Why can the Russian Civil War be called a test of the results of the Revolution?What role did the success of the Red Army play in Bolshevik state-building?What conclusion can be drawn from the opposition of the White forces?