1. Why was Lenin reluctant to compromise with the Mensheviks or Socialist Revolutionaries?
Lenin was reluctant to compromise with the Mensheviks or Social Revolutionaries because he thought that their willingness to compromise would ruin his plans for the country, and he believed that compromise with the government was not an option.
2. List two reasons why the Provisional Government under Kerensky could not govern.
The Provisional Government under Kerensky could not govern because the socialists and liberal democrats didn't respect or trust him, and he couldn't keep order between the political parties and the citizens rioting.
3. The Bolsheviks did not have a majority at the Congress of Soviets after the October Revolution. How did they manage to assume power?
The Bolsheviks managed to assume power because when Lenin returned from Finland he used his powerful personality to persuade the remaining twelve members to take over the key government buildings, the railroad stations, set up road-blocks around Pertrograd, and surround the Winter Palace with no violence. This plan was very easy for them to do and they succeeded in it, the citizens didn't even realize what had happened. By the time the politcal parties sat down to try to talk all the political parties except for the three hundred Bolsheviks walked out and therefore erased the possibility of the other political parties having a say in the future government.
4. What did the Bolsheviks have to give up in order to get out of World War I? What was the name of the Treaty?
The Bolsheviks had to give up about one third of its population, thirty-two percent of its agricultural land, about half of its industry and eighty-nine percent of its coal mines because they had to give Poland, Ukraine, Finland, and the Baltic States to Germany in order to get out of World War I. The name of this treaty was called the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
5. What was the Checka?
The Checka was an attempt to try to terrify into submission, it was also known as the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Struggle against Counter-Revolution, Sabotage, and Speculation.
6. What supporters joined the Red Army? White Army?
The White Army had support from the old middle and upper classes and the officers from the tsarist army. The Red Army had support from political commissioners who were paired with some officers from the tsarist army. Both the Red and White armies forcefully had support from peasants, however the peasants saw the Bolsheviks as the better of the two who were mostly in the Red Army.
7. How many Russians died during the Civil War? How many emigrated to other countries?
About thirteen million Russians died during the Civil War, and about two million emigrated to other countries.
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