Wednesday, July 2, 2008

2nd Semester Day 1: Russian Revolution

Homework Questions for Monday 7/6. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Tuesday 7/7.

Vocabulary Map Vocabulary:
Proletariat
soviet
Cheka
Commissar
March Revolution
Bloody Sunday
Czar
Nicholas II
Alexandra
Rasputin
Duma
Bolsheviks
Mensheviks
V.I. Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Abdicate
USSR
New Economic Policy or NEP
Stalin

Reading Questions:
1. What were the causes of the March revolution?
2. How did the czar's autocratic policies toward the people lead to social unrest?
3. How did Lenin adapt Marxism to conditions in Russia?
4. What were the causes and effects of the civil war in Russia?
5. Why did Lenin compromise between the ideas of capitalism and communism in creating the NEP?
6. How did two revolutions and a civil war bring about communist control of Russia?
7.What started the March revolution?
8. Why did Germany want Lenin to return to Russia in 1917?
9. How did the government and the economy under Lenin differ from "pure" communism?
10. How did WWI help bring about the Russian revolution?


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