Animal Farm Russian History Scavenger Hunt

The class is divided into two groups (12-15 in a group). Within these groups, decide how you will find the following information using these sources: Library Online Encyclopedia and Websites (Primary Sources). Since you are doing this Online – copy and paste the source of your information. Remember that Wikispaces is NOT a primary source. You have one class period to gather the information and upload to this Wiki page. Be sure to use direct quotes when you are not paraphrasing.

Please add pictures or any other pertinent information helpful in understanding the questions.

1. Define Bourgeoisie in Marxist terms. Look under Grolier Online Passport.

2. Define Proletariat.

3. What is a czar? Define Czarism.

4. Who was Czar Nicholas ll?

5. What is Pravada?

6. Who was Karl Marx?

7. What is the Communist Manifesto? (What principles or theories does it express?)

8. Define communism.

9. Define Socialism.

10. What was the Cheka? GPU?

11. What was Bloody Sunday? When did it happen? Who did it involve?

12. Who was Lenin? Why was he important to Russian Communism?

13. Who was Stalin? Why was he important to the Russian Communism?

14. Who was Trotsky? What was his role in the Russian Communism?

15. Who was Rasputin? What was the Russian Orthodox Church?

16. Czar Nicholas II’s wife was Alexandra Ferdorovna. Write two (2) facts about her.

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Fact 2 –

17. Czar Nicholas II had many children, the two most popular were Alexei and Anastasia. Tell (2) facts about each.

Alexei

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Fact 2 –

Anastasia

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Fact 2 –

18. Who was Adolf Hitler? What was his role in the history of the Bolsheviks?

19. What happened in the February/March 1917 Russian Revolution?

20. What happened in the October/November 1917 Bolshevik Revolution?

21. Define Duma.

22. When did Russia enter WWI? Why is this significant?

23. Why did Russia have a civil war between 1918-1920?

24. What is Bolshevism?

25. In reference to the Russian Civil War, who were the Reds and the Whites?

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Whites-

26. What was the Non-aggression Pact? Who was it between?

27. What were the great Purges? Who conducted them? When did they occur?

28. Who were the Kulaks?

29. What is “collective farming” in relation to Communist Russia?

30. Define totalitarianism.