CHY 4UE
Topic: The Russian Revolution
Instructions: Modern Perspectives, Chapter Eighteen
Please read Chapter Eighteen in your textbook, Modern Perspectives. As you read, make note of
the following items:
Page:
420
420-426
426-430
430-432
433-435
435-440
440-443
443-445
445-447
Discussion:
Introduction & survey of the topic
The >long term background (causes?): Catherine the Great through Nicholas II
-also see pages 40-46, 120-123
The radical faction: intelligentsia, bourgeoisie, revolutionaries...
The beginning of the end: the death of benevolent paternalism
The turning point: 1905. Emergence of a democratic, constitutional-monarchy
International & domestic pressures: 1905-1917
The February (March) Revolution
After the February Revolution: the year 1917
Concluding the year 1917: the October (Bolshevik) Revolution
Please ensure you make note of the following terms/concepts/events as you go through the
chapter. Suggestion: check-off each item as you provide coverage in your notes
People Inventory:
Terms Inventory:
Events Inventory:
Peter the Great
Authoritarianism
Abolition of Serfdom, 1861
Catherine the Great Autocracy
(Emancipation)
Alexander I
Liberalism
Assassination of Alexander II
Decembrist Revolt
Serfdom
1903 Social Democratic
Nicholas I
Mir (Commune)
Party Conference
Alexander II
Zemstvos
Russian-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Alexander III
Russification
January 22, 1905:ABloody Sunday@
People=s Will
Industrialization
October Manifesto
Russian Orthodox Church
famine
Agrarian Reform Act
Intelligentsia
peasant revolts
August 1, 1914
Westernizers
Iskra (the Spark)
Battle of Tannenburg
Slavophiles
bourgeoisie
March 3, 1917
Populists
proletariat
- Putilov Steel Works
Anarchists
dictatorship of the
March 15, 1917
Michael Bakunin
proletariat
Lenin=s train trip through Germany
petit bourgeois
Soviet (Petrograd/Moscow) Petrograd: July 16-19, 1917
George Plekhanov
Duma
February Revolution
Russian Social Democratic St. Petersburg/Petrograd
October (Bolshevik) Revolution
Party
Provisional Government
V.I. Lenin
Order Number One
Bolsheviks
coup d=etat
Mensheviks
July Days
Leon Trotsky
Winter Palace
Nicholas II
All-Russian Congress of Soviets
Czarina Alexandra
Father Gabon
Peter Stolypin
Grigori Rasputin
Prince Lvov
Alexander Kerensky
General Kornilov
Red Guards
Part B:
1) A village council / commune ______________________ (mir).
2) peasants-turned-seasonal-workers in mines, construction, or towns, migrating from the
countryside ______________________ (otkhodniki)
3) The theorist / observer of the Russian political scene who determined that workers were
capable only of achieving Atrade union consciousness@ ______________________ (Lenin)
4) Czarist Minister of Trade and Industry who initiated vast modernisation and industrialisation
initiatives ______________________ (Sergei Witte)
5) The dominant manifestation of Russian radical thought throughout 1860s-1880s; They held
the view that industrialisation and urbanisation had caused degradation within the social fabric of
Western countries, and thus argued that similar developments should be avoided at all costs
(populists) within Russia: ______________________ (populism)
6) The term imposed on the faction of the splintered Russian Social Democratic Workers= Party
in which Plekanov, Trotsky, and Martov were members: ______________________
(Menshevik)
7) The term given by Lenin to the leadership within the revolutionary party, armed with the most
advanced, revolutionary ideology ______________________ (vanguard fighter)
8) This organisation was to provide the city with a kind of emergency municipal government
when other institutions were paralysed and in the event of a general strike.
______________________ (St. Petersburg soviet)
9) The closest Russia came to a Constitution, this document was entitled:
______________________ (the fundamental laws of 1906)
10) The title of Lenin=s 1902 polemic document in which he set forth the theoretical foundation
for the >dictatorship of the proletariat= ___________________________________________