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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 did peasant rebellions repeatedly emerge in the Russian Empire despite peasants having little private land?

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The Russian Revolution

Practice questions

01 Why did peasant rebellions repeatedly emerge in the Russian Empire despite peasants having little private land?

02 Why could the existence of the Mir institution appear important to socialists in Russia?

03 Why did the workers' movement become influential even though industrialisation came late in Russia?

04 Why did the Tsar have to promise reforms after Bloody Sunday?

05 Why is the Duma formed after 1905 considered a limited reform?

06 What was the main difference between the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party and peasant parties?

07 Why was the land policy of the SR Party a challenge for the Bolsheviks?

08 What was Lenin's organisational idea in the Bolshevik and Menshevik split?

09 How was the Menshevik idea of party different from the Bolshevik idea?

10 What type of discontent was increased by the policy of Russification in the Russian Empire?

11 How did Russia's defeats in the First World War weaken Tsarist authority?

12 Why was the demand for bread in the February Revolution of 1917 not only an economic issue?

13 Why is the strike of women workers considered a decisive beginning of the February Revolution?

14 Why was soldiers' mutiny in February 1917 a decisive blow to Tsarism?

15 What was the main tension in the dual power formed after the February Revolution?

16 How did the Provisional Government's war policy give Bolsheviks a political opportunity?

17 How did Lenin's April Theses change politics after the February Revolution?

18 What was the deeper political meaning of the slogan all power to the Soviets?

19 How did the slogan peace land and bread connect different groups?

20 Which weakness of the Bolshevik movement was shown by the July 1917 events?

21 Why did the Bolsheviks' image improve after the Kornilov Affair?

22 Why was the role of the Military Revolutionary Committee strategic in the October Revolution?

23 What did the capture of the Winter Palace signal for the Provisional Government?

24 Why cannot Bolshevik success in the October Revolution be called only a military action?

25 How did the Land Decree help Bolsheviks connect with peasants?

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