RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

QUESTIONS

1. Why were the peasants unhappy with the Tsar?

2.What did the Tsar do that made him seem incompetent to his people?

3. What was important about the February Revolution?

4. Why did Russia have two revolutions?

5. Who was the main leader of the October Revolution?

6. Which political group took power after the October Revolution?

7. What were the aims of Lenin’s New Economic Plan (NEP)?

8. Did Lenin think that communism could be implemented immediately? Why/why not?

Look at the following list and tell who they were and what role they had in the Revolutions of 1917 and or the Civil War.

♦ Alexander Kerensky

♦ Bolsheviks

♦ Leon Trotsky

♦ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

♦ Red Army

♦ White Army