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Here is an edited copy of the Russian Revolution Study Guide

NOTE: The completion questions left below should help you answer the essays. The terms

should be self explanatory....

The World War II guide has been modified and is on the regular homework page.

World History 9 - CP

Chapter 21: World Wars and Revolutions

Study Guide

        II - Section II - The Russian Revolution  - Read pp. 600 - 606

        Guiding Question: What led to the Russian Revolution?

14. List and explain the causes that your text gives for the Russian Revolution.

16. Completion: Copy this on good homework paper completing it by filling in the

        blanks. Underline your answers.

        “ ____ is a ____ ____ that seeks to abolish all forms of ____ ____ and

        create a society of ____ ____, with no ____ ____ or ____. Far from fulfilling

        its promises to ____ of more ____ over their own lives, this ____ led to one

        of the harshest ____ in history.”

18. Completion: Copy this on good homework paper completing it by filling in the

        blanks. Underline your answers.

        “____ was also far behind ____ because it relied mostly on ____ long after

        the ____ ____ had taken hold in ____ ____ and the ____ ____.”

20. Completion: Copy this on good homework paper completing it by filling in the

        blanks. Underline your answers.

        “This ____ growth created a class of ____ ____ in Russia. ____ workers

        were ____ and often worked ____ ____ in awful conditions. They were

        far ____ in ____ than the ____. The workers made up about ______ of

        Russia’s population by ____.”

22. Completion: Copy this on good homework paper completing it by filling in the

        blanks. Underline your answers.

        “The ____ reforms of ____ did not quiet Russia’s growing ____ ____.

        Russia’s participation in ____ _____ was a ____, ____, and ____ disaster.

        The stage was set for ____.”

23. Completion: Copy this on good homework paper completing it by filling in the

        blanks. Underline your answers.

        “Russia’s horrible ____ ____ led to a series of massive ____ and ____ in

        the nation’s capital, ____, now called _______ ......... control passed to a

        temporary ____ government based on the ____. The ____ - based Socialist

        ____ and the moderate ____ socialists controlled this ____.”

25. What was the meaning behind the Bolshevik’s famous slogan “land, bread, and

        peace?”

28. Completion: Copy this on good homework paper completing it by filling in the

        blanks. Underline your answers.

        “____ declared the formation of the world’s first ____ ____. Its capital was

        the city of ____. The ____ ended ____ ____ of land and ____ land to the

        ____. All ____ was declared to ____ to the ____, and some 500 million

        acres were turned over to ____. ____ were given control of ____, ____, and

        ____. The ____ government took control of ____. ____ was outlawed, as

        was the ____ of most ____ ____.”

30. Explain the causes explained in your text for the Russian Civil War.

Know the following:

Revolution

Socialism

Czars

Capitalists

Socialist Revolutionary Party

Cadets

Mensheviks

Bolsheviks

Vladimir Lenin

Bloody Sunday

Duma

Petrograd

Nicholas II

Soviets

“Land, Bread and Peace”

Provisional Government

Alexander Kerensky

General Kornilov

Cheka

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Whites

Reds

Leon Trotsky

Communist Party

New Economic Policy

Joseph Stalin