The Russian Revolution Web Quest

 

 

 

Visit the following websites in order to accurately and efficiently answer the questions associated with each site.  Record your responses on the accompanying Web Quest sheet.  You will have two computer lab days to complete this assignment.  Good Luck!

 

The Path to Revolution

 

1. Before the Russian Revolution what form of government was the head of Russia?

 

2. What happened with the Czars (Tsars) to make the Russian people unhappy?

 

3. Explain what happened in the Decembrist Revolt?

 

4. Who Abolished serfdom in 1861?

 

5. Who became Czar in 1894?

 

6. Why was Czar Nicholas II not a great Czar?

 

7. What Problems did Czar Nicholas II face with Japan?

 

8. In 1912 the Social Democrats split into 2 groups.  List the two groups and describe them:

 

9. In February 1917 why did riots break out in St. Petersburg?

 

10. After Nicholas II gave up the throne who ran the Russian Government?

 

11. On October 25^th who stormed the winter palace to take over the government?

 

12. Three years later, in 1920 the Russian Government was finally controlled by what group?

 

Alexander Kerensky (center, white), charter member of the Provisional Government

and its head in September-October 1917, arriving in Moscow on or about 12 August 1917.

 

Russian Revolution Timeline

Place the following events in chronological order with #13 being the earliest event.

 

A) The Bolsheviks accept the dictated peace of Brest-Litovsk.                         

 

B) The Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional government.

 

C) First All-Russia Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets opens.                    

 

D) Tsarist troops open fire on a peaceful demonstration of workers in St Petersburg.

 

E) General Strike sweeps Russia which ends when the Tsar promises a constitution.

 

F) Lenin dies and Trotsky is defeated by a triumvirate of Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev.

 

G) A new wave of workers unrest ends with the outbreak of the First World War.

 

H) The Tsar abdicates when he hears that Moscow too has joined the Revolution.

 

I) Moscow headquarters of the anarchists surrounded and attacked by Bolshevik troops.

 

J) White Armies attack the Bolsheviks from all directions but the Red Army is finally victorious.

 

K) Congress of Socialist Revolutionaries results in victory for the left under Chernov.

 

L) Trotsky denounces the German Peace Terms as unacceptable and walks out of the peace negotiations at Brest- Litovsk.

 

M) Gorky’s Novaia Zhizn, the last opposition paper, banned.

 

13.                               14.                               15.                               16.                               17.                               18.                              

19.                               20.                               21.                               22.                               23.                               24.                              

25.                              

 

Alexander Kerensky

 

26.    Who was Alexander Kerensky (3 sentence biographical description)?

 

27.    List three ways in which Kerensky was involved in the Russian Revolution & events that followed.

 

 

Alexandra Kollontai

 

28.    Who was Alexandra Kollontai (3 sentence biographical description)?

 

29.    List three ways in which Kollontai was involved in the Russian Revolution & events that followed.

 

 

Vladimir Lenin

 

30.    Who was Vladimir Lenin (3 sentence biographical description)?

                             

31.    List three ways in which Lenin was involved in the Russian Revolution &

  events that followed.

 

 

Maxim Gorky

 

32.    Who was Maxim Gorky (3 sentence biographical description)?

                             

33.    List three ways in which Gorky was involved in the Russian

  Revolution & events that followed.

 

 

Leon Trotsky

 

34.    Who was Leon Trotsky (3 sentence biographical description)?

                             

35.    List three ways in which Trotsky was involved in the Russian Revolution

  & events that followed.

 

Josef Stalin

 

36.    Who was Vladimir Lenin (3 sentence biographical description)?

                             

37.    List three ways in which Lenin was involved in the Russian Revolution

  & events that followed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good Job!  The hard work is over…Hand in your packet when you are through.