Russian Revolution Webquest Review
Questions for the Video
2. Why did few Russians see an improvement in their quality of life after serfdom was abolished?
3. What reforms did the Tsar introduce in 1905 following an attempted revolution? Were these reforms effective?
4. Why was Lenin determined to remove the Tsar from power?
5. What uprising forced the Tsar to abdicate?
6. Who assumed power in Russia following the abdication of the Tsar?
7. How did Lenin return to Russia from exile in Switzerland?
8. When did Lenin assume power in Russia?
9. Why did the Bolsheviks murder the Tsar and the entire Romanov family?
10. Who did Lenin not want to assume power following his death? Was his warning listened to?
11. What kind of regime in Russia is Lenin responsible for establishing?
12. How did Lenin and his Bolsheviks have a positive impact on the history of Russia?
In More Depth
13. In 1913, how large and diverse was the Russian Empire, which the Romanov family ruled?
14. What events in 1905 had shaken the Russian Empire?
15. How did the early battles of World War I destroy any hope of national unity?
16. By 1915, how much Russian territory had fallen to the Central Powers?
17. How did the military situation improve in 1916?
18. Why did this success on the battlefield not translate to success on the home front?
19. What events led to Nicholas II abdicating in February 1917?
20. Who held the real power in Russia following the abdication of the Tsar?
21. What caused the downfall of the provisional government in October 1917?
22. What promise did Lenin and the Bolsheviks make upon seizing power?
23. When the Central Powers did agree to a peace treaty, causing Lenin’s plan to backfire, who did the Bolsheviks send to negotiate?
24. Due to outrage over the treaty, what internal conflict broke out in Russia? What was the name for the two sides in this conflict?
25. Why were the Reds able to push back the White forces which surrounded them?
26. Why were the Whites not an effective fighting force?
28. Why did the Allied nations intervene in the Russian Civil War on the side of the Whites?
27. How many people were killed in the Russian Civil War?
28. What legacy did the Russian Civil War and the Bolshevik victory leave behind?
Revolution Timeline
Using the website, Russian Revolution Timeline place the following events in chronological order on a timeline. Make sure your timeline makes use of space, has clear dates and events listed in order, and includes colorful and relevant visuals!
A) The Bolsheviks accept the dictated peace of Brest-Litovsk.
B) The Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional government.
C) First All-Russia Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets opens.
D) Tsarist troops open fire on a peaceful demonstration of workers in St Petersburg.
E) General Strike sweeps Russia which ends when the Tsar promises a constitution.
F) Lenin dies and Trotsky is defeated by a triumvirate of Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev.
G) A new wave of workers unrest ends with the outbreak of the First World War.
H) The Tsar abdicates when he hears that Moscow too has joined the Revolution.
I) Moscow headquarters of the anarchists surrounded and attacked by Bolshevik troops.
J) White Armies attack the Bolsheviks from all directions but the Red Army is finally victorious.
K) Congress of Socialist Revolutionaries results in victory for the left under Chernov.
L) Trotsky denounces the German Peace Terms as unacceptable and walks out of the peace negotiations at Brest- Litovsk.
M) Gorky’s Novaia Zhizn, the last opposition paper, banned.
