Name: ______
Russian Revolution Test Review
Test Format: Multiple Choice & Essay Format
Material Covered:
· All textbook reading for the Unit: Pages 389-400
· All powerpoint information
· 3 primary source documents from class (What is to be Done, Testatment, Industrialization of the Country)
Terms to know: Karl Marx, Marxism , provisional government, pogrom, Bolsheviks, Nicholas II, V.I. Lenin, Duma
Joseph Stalin, Soviet, Totalitarianism, Collective Farm, Command economy, Great Purge, kulak, Rasputin, gulag, Communist Manifesto, proletariat, peasant, serf, clergy, nobility, intellectual
Cause & Effect of RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
(Describe effect of event) (when applicable)
Long-Term Causes Impact Year occured
Oppression of Serfs increased anger
Class inequalities
Autocracy of czars
Poor Economy led to riots
Rise of Marxism offered a “new vision”
Immediate Causes
Defeat in Russo-Japanese War
Bloody Sunday 1905
Heavy losses in World War I
Indecision of Nicholas II
Strikes and riots
Revolution
Abdication of Nicholas II
Failure of Provisional Government
Growing power of soviets
Return of Lenin to Russia
Bolshevik takeover under Lenin
Immediate Effects
Civil War
Peace with Germany under harsh treaty
Bolshevik control of government
Russian economy in ruins
Long-Term Effects
Formation of USSR
Establishment of Totalitarian communist state
New Economic Policy under Stalin
Dictatorship rule under Communist Party
Essay Questions for Russian Revolution Test Name: ______
· You are allowed to bring this page of handwritten notes to be used for the essay part of your exam.
· You must attach this to the essay portion of your test
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1) Describe the political/economic theory known as Marxism as described in the Communist Manifesto and why it predicted the inevitable collapse of capitalism.
a. Hint: describe why capitalism would end naturally & how “communism” would work according to Karl Marx (see class handout on Communism)
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2) Describe Lenin’s theory of Revolution and the details of how he rose to power to become the leader of the Soviet Union. Did Lenin betray the peasants in his push for revolution?
a. Hint: see primary source “What is to be Done”
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3) Describe why/how Stalin rose to gain total power in the Soviet Union and explain how he changed the Soviet Union. (i.e. compared to Lenin’s rule—what did he change?)
a. Hint: analyze why he gained power while Trotsky failed to….
b. Discuss how the government became a “Totalitarian Dictatorship” under Stalin…
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