USA HISTORY

Which event best replaces the question mark in this sequence? Russia 1917-1918 * Czar Nicholas II abdicated Russian Imperial throne *? * Bolsheviks seized power and became the Communist Party * Russia signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers

(A) ** Vladimir Lenin returned to lead the Russian Revolution

(B) Leon Trotsky escaped Russia for exile in Mexico

(C) The Russian government adopted the New Economic Policy

(D) The Red Army won the Russian Civil War

Concept note-1: -Bloody Sunday in 1905 and the Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War both helped lead to the 1917 revolution. After taking over, the Bolsheviks promised ‘peace, land, and bread’ to the Russian people.

Concept note-2: -Bolshevik Revolution On November 6 and 7, 1917 (or October 24 and 25 on the Julian calendar, which is why the event is often referred to as the October Revolution), leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the Duma’s provisional government.

Concept note-3: -Russian Revolution, also called Russian Revolution of 1917, two revolutions in 1917, the first of which, in February (March, New Style), overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October (November), placed the Bolsheviks in power.

Concept note-4: -The Bolsheviks imprisoned their rivals, closed down other political parties, and banned newspapers. They formed a new Red Army, and Leon Trotsky became the commissar of war. Learn more about Revolutionary Russia.