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Much of the Russian Revolution centered on the city of Petrograd which is known by what name in modern times?
Pallaford
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Stalingrad
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The Russian Revolution was largely a response to the depression caused by Russia's failure fighting in what war?
The Crimean War
World War One
The Russo-Japanese War
World War Two
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The communist Russian revolutionaries were largely inspired by what German philosopher's writings such as Das Kapita?
Karl Marx
Claus Berring
Soren Kierkegaard
Stephen Lundt
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The Russian revolutionaries raged against what economic ruling class that Marx coined in his writings?
The Bourgeoisie
The Bundstadt
The Favori
The Proletariat
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The Russian revolutionaries identified themselves with what class of workers whom Karl Marx formulated in his writings?
The Liberos
The Schadenfreude
The Duma
The Proletariat
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The Russian Revolution began as a protest to overthrow what final monarch of Russia?
Tsar Alexei V
Tsar Peter III
Tsar Alexander I
Tsar Nicholas II
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Another reason why the Russian people were so mad at the Tsar was that his family catered to the whims of what infamous holy man whom the rest of Russia realized was a charlatan?
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The eventual winners of the Russian Revolution had the goal of establishing within their country what type of governmental system where members of various social groups elected representatives of said groups to enact policy?
A Platonic republic
A soviet democracy
A traditional constituency
A communal dictatorship
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What man led the radical Soviet faction during the Russian Revolution until he became the first premier of communist Russia?
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Salam Kushida
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What name was given to Vladimir Lenin's radical Soviet faction during the Russian Revolution?
The Roscovics
The Kalcevics
The Mensheviks
The Bolsheviks
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What revolution in 1917 officially ended Tsar Nicholas II's reign as he gave up political power to a Russian legislative council?
The February Revolution
The April Revolution
The September Revolution
The december Revolution
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After the February Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II gave political power to what legislative organization in Russian society?
The Duma
The Reichstag
The Cabal
The Kaiber
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The Bolsheviks won popular support thanks to what famous slogan that summarized their positions?
Feel the call to arms.
Take what is yours.
Ballots, bullets, and berets
Peace, land, and bread.
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What is the name of the rallying demands that Lenin distributed throughout Petrograd to try and empower the Bolsheviks during the Revolution?
Lenin's Lures
The White Calls
The April Theses
The Stonewall Accords
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Another major leader of the Bolshevik Revolution was what less-authoritarian philosopher who would be forced into exile as soon as dictatorial Joseph Stalin took the reins of Russia?
Leon Trotsky
Andrei Faustus
Alexander Krilborne
Shermin Koslov
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What is the colorful name given to the Bolshevik militiamen who carried out Lenin's extremist orders during the Revolution?
The Blue Skies
The Black Shirts
The Grey Bars
The Red Guard
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What is the name of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army who led an unsuccessful coup against the short-lived Russian Republic?
Lavr Kornilov
Oskar Alvidor
Cyran Dostoyevsky
Sergei Lavrov
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What specific era of the Russian Revolution saw the Bolsheviks seize power by storming the Tsar's palace as well as multiple seats of political authority?
The March Revolution
The October Revolution
The July Revolution
The October Revolution
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What month-themed period of the Russian Revolution saw Bolshevik supporters sport guns to kill and demonstrate against various political opponents?
The Final March
The Red February
July Days
The October Burning
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The Bolsheviks eventually adopted what symbol representing laborers as the icon of their new Soviet nation?
The helmet and trowel
The wheel and pitchfork
The handgun and anvil
The hammer and sickle
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What is the name of the politician who led the brief Republic of Russia starting in September until the Bolsheviks tore down the government in November?
Alexander Kerensky
Misha Pavel
Stefanik Kalashnikov
Salavan Revallo
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The Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II and his family after they stormed what location in October 1917?
The Winter Palace
The University of St. Paul
The Cathedral of St. Peter
The Moscow Palace
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For a long time, there were rumors spread among Russian monarchists that what daughter of Tsar Nicholas II survived the Revolution?
Anastasia Romanov
Erikia Romanov
Cristisia Romanov
Rebecca Romanov
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Opposing the radical Bolshevik party was what political organization that wanted more moderate change to improve Russian society?
The Golsheviks
The Tartaravics
The Coslovics
The Mensheviks
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What was the official name of the communist government that Lenin and his Bolsheviks installed over Russia toward the Revolution's tail-end?
Russia's Soviet Establishment of Independent Socialist Communities
The Central Republic of Global Communism
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Cossack Republic of Universal Brotherhood
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In March of 1918, the new Soviet Russia asserted its legitimacy by signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with what other country?
Germany
Poland
China
France
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Before exiting World War One, the Bolsheviks moved Russia's capital from St. Petersburg to what other city that still serves as the country's capital?
Moscow
Leningrad
Stalingrad
Bolinski
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What man succeeded Vladimir Lenin to the leadership of the new Soviet Russia and subsequently made the country's government a full autocratic dictatorship?
Joseph Stalin
Georgy Molotov
Viktor Raddenkhov
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Immediately following the Russian Revolution came the Russian Civil War where the Red Bolshevik faction fought against what other color-themed faction that wanted to keep the country from becoming communist?
The Green Army
The Black Army
The White Army
The Blue Army
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As Soviet Russia began to imperialistically swallow up its neighbors, it formed what powerful country that had the largest landmass of any modern nation?
The Russian Federation
The Soviet Union
The United Socialist Front
The Liberated Peoples' Republic of Eurasia
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