The Russian Revolution Common Lit With Answers 2024

Serfdom {Ans: Many people believed this was the key to modernizing Russia; the czars refused to end it.}Weapons of Totalitarianism {Ans: Indoctrination, Propaganda, Censorship, Religious Persecution (refer to your assignment for details).}Alexander Kerensky {Ans: A respected member of the Duma and a Soviet; he was chosen to be the leader of the provisional government that replaced Nicholas II.}Soviet {Ans: The council of elected workers in the major cities of Russia; they controlled Russia.}Alexander III {Ans: The Romanov czar who ruled harshly as a result of his father's assassination; he opposed reform, increased censorship and decreased education.}USSR {Ans: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic; the new name given to Russia under Lenin.}Abdicate {Ans: To resign or to give up one's throne.}Social Revolutionaries {Ans: A group of Marxists who believed that a worldwide revolution would begin in Russia with the peasants; they won the elected of 1917 following the Second Revolution but Lenin arrested them and tried them as enemies of the state.}Russo-Japanese War (effect) {Ans: Nicholas II lost the war; As a result, Russia lost most of its naval fleet, civil unrest at home increased, Russia has to stay out of Manchuria