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bolsheviks |
a member of the majority faction of the russian social democratic party, which was renamed the communist party after seizing power in the october revolution of 1917. |
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russian revolution |
revolution in russia 1917-18 that overthrew the czar and brought the bolsheviks, a communist party led by Lenin |
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mensheviks |
member of the non-leninist wing of the russian social-democratic workers' party, which evolved into a seperate organization. |
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provisional government |
id- an emergency gov set up when no gov has been established. -it led russia from march-nov 1917. |
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kremlin |
a fortified palace in moscow, is the seat of power of the russian gov. often used as a shorthand to refer to the entire soviet gov. |
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red army |
soviet army created by the communist gov. after the bolshevik revolution of 1917. |
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lenin |
vladimir lenin- established the 1st communist gov when he overthrew the provisional gov, russia had the first communist gov in the world. |
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peace, land and bread |
he meant that the bolsheviks would do the followingpeace:withdraw russia from the war bread:lenin pormised to feed russia because too many men were conscripted into the army and the food supply networks were down land:promised peasents that they were own the land on which they worked on for so long-mostly to gain support |
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trotsky |
leon trotsky- one of the foremost figures in the russian revolution. gave the move for revolution both drive and organisation. saved the bolshebik revolution. |
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kerensky |
alexander kerensky led the provisional gov.he was part of the socialist revolutionaries, the petrograd soviet and was a member of the duma. |
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kronstadt Mutiny |
kronstadt is a naval base in finland.in may 1917, 3,00 saloirs joined the bolsheviks, they were anarchists and social revolutionaries. |
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kornilov affair |
during which the provisional gov. appeared to be under threat from its own army. general lavr kornilov, attempted to gather both troops and financial support so he could occupy petrograd and restore order. |
