Bolshevik

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the year of power seizure?1917, specifically the October Revolution (November 7-8 Gregorian calendar)
2. What is the initial governing body?Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), chaired by Lenin
3. Who were the Bolsheviks and what did they want to change?The Bolsheviks were a group of Russian revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin. They wanted to end the Tsarist monarchy and create a socialist state in Russia.
4. Why did the Bolsheviks call themselves a "vanguard party"?They believed a small group of dedicated revolutionaries should guide the workers. Spontaneous worker actions alone would not be enough to overthrow capitalism.

Vanguard Party: A political party that claims to represent the most class-conscious members of a proletariat, leading the revolution.
Sovnarkom: The highest executive body of Soviet Russia and later the Soviet Union, formed after the October Revolution.
Nationalization: The process of transferring an industry or asset from private ownership to public ownership by the state.
Cold War: A period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s.