| Term | Definition |
|---|
| "Dvoyevlastiya" – "Dual Power" | The provisional government and the soviet government; provisional government considered to be the official government but they could only carry out laws if the soviet agreed |
| Provisional Government | Temporary government; good so Russia had time to elect and choose a new government |
| Petrograd Soviet | Workers/Soldiers sent representatives to form a soviet to look after their interests; had control over the armed forces in Petrograd |
| April Theses | Demands by the Petrograd Soviet; no co-operation with the provisional government, war should be ended immediately, land should be given to the peasants, soviets should take power, should be a second revolution where the workers take power |
| Alexander Kerensky | Elected to the Duma in 1912; bridge between the provisional government and the petrograd soviet |
| July Days | July 16/17; workers/peasants protested the war; Kerensky sends Lenin back to Finland |
| General Kornilov | Head of the army |
| The Cossaks | ? |
| October/November Revolution | See timeline |
| The Sovnarkom | Government set up by Lenin after the October/November revolution; "Council of People's Commissars" |
| The Cheka | December 1917; secret police force |
| The Constituent Assembly | November 1917; Lenin forced to hold elections; January 1918- Lenin sent soldiers to shut down the constituent assembly |
| "Bolsheviks" | Became the communists in 1918 |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Russia lost a lot |
| Civil War (Reds – Whites – Greens) | Reds- the communists, controlled the central area of western Russia, controlled railways between Petrograd and Moscow, lead by Trotsky; Whites- against the communists, very scattered around the central area, communications were difficult, bad leaders |
| Ekaterinburg | Where the Tsar and his family were taken and killed |
| War Communism | State told factories what to produce, he had control over all the factories; Checka took food surplus from the peasants |
| Red Terror | Checka was very brutal; Not allowed to oppose the government |
| Crisis of 1921 | Economy in ruins; streets filled with riots and chaos; agriculture had collapsed; low grain harvests |
| Kronstadt Naval Base | March 1921- sailors staged an uprising, Trotsky used troops to crush them, 20,000 men killed or wounded |
| New Economic Policy (NEP) | 1921-28; People allowed to buy and sell products, Lenin supported technology/electricity, encouraged foreign trade, boosted the economy |
| Lenin's death | January 1924; 1000s viewed the streets to view his coffin; Trotsky tricked by Stalin not to go to Lenin's death |
| Social Changes (women, religion, education, arts) | Equality in the families, religion used as a trick to make people accept terrible living conditions, education became very important, experiments in the arts was encouraged |
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