Glossary for Russian Revolution & Civil War
Alexander II was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination on 13 March 1881.
Alexander III
All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies
First
Second
Appeal to All the Peoples of the World (by N.N. Sukhanov)
April Theses
Bloody Sunday
Bolsheviks Russian for “members of the majority”
bourgeois
Duma
Emancipation Edict
CHEKA (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, abbreviated VChK) was the first Soviet secret police. The Sovnarkom created it in December 1917 to identify and fight counter-revolutionary activity. The CHEKA arrested, imprisoned, and executed without trial “enemies of the people,” such as the bourgeoisie, clergy, libertarians and socialists of Petrograd, anarchists and other leftists were considered .
Congress or Convocation of Soviets: supreme governing body of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and several other Soviet republics from 1917 to 1936.
First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies (16 June – 7 July 1917) was convened by the Congress of Soviets and was dominated by Mensheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries, and other pro-government parties.
Coup of June 1907 (aka Stolypin’s Coup),
Dual power
Emancipation Edict
Famines
February Revolution
Fundamental Laws of 1906,
Holodomor
July Crisis of 1914
July Days,
Kerensky Offensive, 1917
Kornilov affair:
Mensheviks
Milyukov Note
Nicholas II
October Manifesto
Octobrists
Order No. 1
Peter and Paul Fortress.
Petrograd Soviet
Provisional Government
Rasputin, Grigori
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (SDs, RSDLP aka the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party)
State Committee on Food Supply