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Unit VIII: Study Guide IB Syllabus Goals: Russian Revolution : causes, events. Effects • Nature of Tsarist regime, Nicholas II • Growth of opposition and groups, • 1905 Revolution, Stolypin • , soviets • 1917 February/March and October/November Revolutions, provisional government • Lenin, Trotsky

Study Questions: 1. What reforms had been introduced in under Alexander II? What policies did Alexander III pursue? With what results? 2. How did the Social Revolutionary party differ in attitudes and program from the Social Democratic Labor party? 3. Describe Lenin’s personality and background. How would you evaluate his contributions to Marxism? What special factors in the Russian background affected his conception of a revolutionary party and revolution? 4. What signs of dissatisfaction could be discerned in Russia at the opening of the 20 th century? Of what significance was the war with Japan? 5. Describe the background and nature of the Revolution of 1905. What precipitated the revolution? With what consequence? 6. Explain the objectives and accomplishments of Stolypin. What sources of discontent persisted in the countryside despite his reforms? 7. Describe the program of the Provisional Government and the obstacles that it faced. 8. Explain the appeals of Lenin’s program. Under what circumstances did the seize power? Describe the new machinery of the government.

Quotes: To what extent do you agree with the following quotes? 1. “The populists had a mythical faith in the peasantry.” 2. “The Russian Marxists believed that Russia must develop capitalism before there could be any revolution.” 3. “Bolshevism was radically removed from Menshevism.” 4. “At the turn of the century, the almost simultaneous founding of three parties- the Constitutional Democrats, the Social , and the Social Democrats- was clearly a sign of mounting dissatisfaction.” 5. “The one thin that tsarism would not allow, even after 1905, was any real participation in the government by the people.” 6. “The war put the tsarist regime to a test that it could not meet.” 7. “Lenin and the Bolsheviks did not bring about the Russian Revolution. They captured it after it had begun. They boarded the ship in midstream.” 8. “The dissolution of the Assembly revealed the Bolshevik attitude toward political democracy.”

Identification: Know each term and its importance zemstvos Black Hundreds mir Stolypin Reforms nihilism populism Russo-Japanese War SD SR Kadets Father Gapon Bloody Sunday Rasputin Nicholas II 1905 Revolution Prince Lvov October Manifesto Order No. 1 Alexander Kerensky Constituent Assembly Bolsheviks Leninism Provisional Government