Russian Revolution Webquest
Go to: www.infoplease.com/atlas/country/russia.html
1. Locate St. Petersburg, Stalingrad and Moscow on the map of Russia.
2. St. Petersburg is located south of which famous country triplets?
3. Moscow is located where in relation to St. Petersburg and Stalingrad?
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tsar
4. Read the definition of tsar specifically for Russia and summarize it.
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/autocracy
5. Read the definition of autocracy and summarize it.
Go to: www.alexanderpalace.org/hanbury/eande.html
6. Read the account of Nicholas and his wife. Does this change the impression of him
that history gives you? Why or why not?
Go to: http://www.alexanderpalace.org/romalbum/
7. Open the album and look at some of the pictures. Are the family members coldhearted imperialists or seemingly loving? Why do you think so?
Go to: www.geographia.com/russia/rushis06.htm
8. Explain what you understand about the causes of the Russian Revolution.
9. What is a Duma and what do you think is its political function?
10. When Nicholas attempted to remove the Duma, the people were upset and became
revolutionary. What did Nicholas do to exacerbate the situation?
11. What problems did World War I cause in Russia?
12. If you were living as a peasant in Russia in 1917, do you think you would have been
involved in the Revolution? Why or why not?
13. What was St. Petersburg called in 1917?
Go to: www.geographia.com/russia/rushis07.htm
14. Under Lenin’s New Economic Policy, what happened to Russia?
15. During the Soviet Era, what happened to Art and Literature, Religion and Political
Parties?
16. By the end of the 1930’s life in Russia was:
a. As good as life under Lenin
b. As good as life under Nicholas
c. Better than life under both Lenin and Nicholas
d. Worse than life under both Lenin and Nicholas
17. Did social and economic conditions after the war improve, worsen or stay the same?
18. When Stalin died in 1953 did social and economic conditions after the war improve,
worsen or stay the same?
Use the Internet to research about each of the following individuals:
Alexander Kerensky
19.
20.
Who was Alexander Kerensky (3 sentence biographical description)?
List three ways in which Kerensky was involved in the Russian Revolution &
events that followed.
Vladimir Lenin
21.
Who was Vladimir Lenin (3 sentence biographical description)?
22.
List three ways in which Lenin was involved in the Russian Revolution &
events that followed.
Leon Trotsky
23.
24.
Who was Leon Trotsky (3 sentence biographical description)?
List three ways in which Trotsky was involved in the Russian Revolution &
events that followed.
Josef Stalin
25.
Who was Vladimir Lenin (3 sentence biographical description)?
26.
List three ways in which Lenin was involved in the Russian Revolution
& events that followed.
27. Describe how Russia transformed from the rule of Czar Nicholas II to Josef Stalin
becoming ruler of Russia