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This royal family ruled for over 300 years before being overthrown in 1917, ending with Tsar Nicholas II's abdication.
Difficulty: Easy- Romanov
- Habsburg
- Bourbon
- Windsor
This short-lived democratic parliament, elected in November 1917 with non-Bolshevik majorities, met only once before being dissolved by armed sailors.
Difficulty: Medium- State Duma
- Congress of Soviets
- Constituent Assembly
- Democratic Conference
This Bolshevik physician developed the concept of "psychoneuroses of the masses" to explain revolutionary crowd psychology and consciousness.
Difficulty: Hard- Alexander Luria
- Ivan Pavlov
- Vladimir Bekhterev
- Lev Vygotsky
In October 1917, armed workers and soldiers stormed this former royal residence in Petrograd, seizing power from the Provisional Government.
Difficulty: Easy- Kremlin
- Winter Palace
- Peterhof
- Catherine Palace
This group of primarily female workers served as shock troops in the defense of the Winter Palace, among the last defenders of the Provisional Government.
Difficulty: Medium- Cossack Guards
- Naval Marines
- Military Cadets
- Women's Battalion of Death
This underground revolutionary organization, using the tactics of "propaganda of the deed," assassinated Tsar Alexander II in 1881.
Difficulty: Hard- Land and Liberty
- People's Will
- Black Repartition
- Liberation of Labor
Tsar Nicholas II's unpopular decision to continue fighting in this devastating global conflict helped fuel revolutionary sentiment among soldiers and civilians.
Difficulty: Easy- Russo-Japanese War
- Crimean War
- World War I
- Franco-Prussian War
This American journalist's eyewitness account "Ten Days That Shook the World" remains one of the most famous Western accounts of the October seizure of power.
Difficulty: Medium- John Reed
- Lincoln Steffens
- Walter Duranty
- Edgar Snow
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