01 Introduction

Question 1

February revolution

Answer 1

• Feb/March 1917
• Tsar Nicholas II abdicates
• Provisional government takes over

Question 2

Lenin’s April Theses

Answer 2

• April 1917
• Published when Lenin returned to Russia
• Promised to pull Russia out of WW1
• Promised land to the peasants

Question 3

June Offensive

Answer 3

• June/July 1917
• Many soldiers refused to go on costly assaults and preferred to only defend the land already held
• Assault turned into a complete failure with a costly retreat

Question 4

July Days rebellion and mutiny

Answer 4

• July 1917
• Due to men up to the age of 45 being conscripted
• 10,000 armed sailors of the Kronstadt naval base marched into Petrograd
• Provisional Government survived this because army units that were sympathetic to the Petrograd Soviet had been ordered elsewhere to participate in the June offensive meaning there were not army units to support the protest

Question 5

Kornilov affair

Answer 5

• August/September 1917
• Attempted coup by General Kornilov to destroy the Petrograd Soviet and the Provisional Government
• Alexander Kerensky, the head of the Provisional Government, turned to the Petrograd Soviet for help and armed them in desperation
• Soldiers in Kornilov’s army refused to fight and thus the coup fell apart and Kornilov was arrested

Question 6

October Revolution

Answer 6

• October/November 1917
• Bolshevik coup d’etat
• Bolsheviks take control of the country

Question 7

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 7

• 1918
• Peace with Germany
• meant agricultural and industrial land lost

Question 8

Russian civil war

Answer 8

1918-1921