RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS

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TERMS• DECEMBERIST REVOLT – Decemberists tried to

overthrow Nicholas I; resulted in 100s of revolutionaries exiled to Siberia; czar forced Jews to Germany

• REVOLUTION OF 1905 – began as a result of Bloody Sunday; forced the czar to create a Duma

• MARCH REVOLUTION - people rioted and went on strike because of food shortages; forced czar Nicholas II to abdicate the throne

• BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION – Socialist Revolution led by Lenin; leaders believed in the teachings of Marx; Cheka created to destroy opposition; brought communism to Russia

• BLOODY SUNDAY – the day Father Gapon and followers were shot at by the czar’s army as they marched to the palace; began the Revolution of 1905

• COMMUNISM – classless society where everyone’s needs are taken care of; government controls politics, society and industry

• CHEKA – created to destroy opposition during the Bolshevik Revolution

• DUMA – czar created the government body during Rev. of 1905 to make changes

• COMMUNIST MANIFESTO – written by Marx and Engles

• RED ARMY – set up by Leon Trotsky; opposed by the White Army (anti-communists)

• TREATY OF BREST-LETOVSK – ended Russia’s involvement in WWI

• SOVIETS – government bodies set up to challenge the existing government during the March Rev.

• PETROGRAD – originally St. Petersburg; sounded too German

• MOSCOW – the capital of Russia• SIBERIA – Northeastern region of Russia

where 150,000 people exiled after the Decemberist Revolt

PEOPLE

• NICHOLAS I – took over the throne when Alexander I suddenly died; forced Jews to Germany during Decemberist Revolt

• NICHOLAS II – abdicated the throne during the March Revolution of 1917

• FATHER GAPON – lead a group to palace to ask Nicholas II for better working condition, while they were on their way they were shot at Bloody Sunday

• KARL MARX – wrote Communist Manifesto; father of communism

• FREIDRICK ENGLES – wrote Communist Manifesto with Marx

• VLADIMIR LENIN – lead the Socialist Revolution known as the Bolshevik Revolution

• LEON TROTSKY – trained the Red Army during the Bolshevik Revolution