1917

• Which groups of people were not happy about the tsarist regime and why?

  -peasants: wanted more land

  -workers: wanted better conditions

  -liberals: wanted more political freedom

  -nationalities: wanted independence from the empire

  -radicals: wanted to otherthrow of the regime, revolution
• Who supported the tsarist regime

  -the army

  -the Okhrana (secret police)

  -Conservatives

  -the church
• How long did the Romanov family rule Russia for

  300 years
• who was the tsar in 1917

  Nicholas II
• What did the peasants thin the answer to their poverty was

  more land. They wanted the land of the landowner class
• what did socialist revolutionaries want

  wanted a new society based on the peasant commune
• what were the social democrats split into

  -bolsheviks: believed they could lead the workers in revolution and help create communism on their behalf

  -Mensheviks: thought communism in Russia was a long way off because it was not yet industrialised
• who did the social democrats follow

  Karl Marx
• what did food shortages in Petrograd and Moscow increase

  social tensions

  strikes in bakeries added to crisis
• What was the provisional government made up of

  Politicians from a mix of parties, but most were either liberals or radical SRs.
• Did the provisional government ever rule Russia

  Yes from march to october 1917
• what did 12 members of the duma comittee form when the tsar abdicated

  provisional government