Russian Revolution
Vocabulary
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Directions: Match each term in the word bank with the correct definition below.
Proletariat
Soviet
Provisional Government
Supreme Soviet
U.S.S.R.
Bolshevik
Kremlin
October Revolution
Politburo
Menshevik
Whites
Kulak
March Revolution
NKVD
Duma
Gulag
1. Proletariat
Wage-earning working class
2. Bolshevik
Marxists, wanted to start a revolution without waiting for stronger proletariat
3. Menshevik
4. Soviet
Marxists, said socialist revolution had to wait until proletariat was more
powerful
Representative Council
5. Duma
Russian parliament
6. March
Strike in Petrograd; Duma disobeys Czar; he can’t regain control, abdicates
Revolution
7. Provisional
Government
8. October
Revolution
9. Whites
Set up by Duma after March Revolution, led by Kerensky, parliamentarystyle (democratic republic) government
Bolshevik or Communist Revolution, led by Lenin, started Russian Civil War
10.
NKVD
Anti-Communist forces, fought “Reds” (communists) during Russian
Revolution
Communist secret police (1917–1946)
11.
U.S.S.R.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a.k.a. the Soviet Union), started in 1922
12.
Kremlin
Old palace-fortress in Moscow, served as seat of Communist government
13.
Politburo
Communist party leaders, controlled the Party and Soviet government
14. Supreme
Soviet
15. Kulak
National legislature of the USSR
16.
Forced-labor camp
Gulag
Prosperous farmer
Russian Revolution People
Directions: Match each name in the bank with the correct match below.
Alexander Kerensky
Leon Trotsky
Vladimir Lenin
Czar Nicholas II
Grigori Rasputin
Josef Stalin
Karl Marx
1. Czar Nicholas II Absolute Monarch, “Czar of all the Russias”
2. Grigori
Rasputin
3. Alexander
Kerensky
4. Karl Marx
5. Vladimir Lenin
6. Leon Trotsky
7. Josef Stalin
Strange, smelly “monk”, influential with Royal family because he could
temporarily “heal” Alexei’s hemophilia
Leader of short-lived Provisional Government
Wrote Communist Manifesto, inspired Lenin and others to push for
revolution
Bolshevik leader, returned from exile in 1917 to stir up a communist
revolution
Bolshevik, wanted world-wide communist revolution, after Lenin died hunted
by Stalin
Bolshevik, after Lenin died, went on a series of “purges” to gain control of
U.S.S.R.