1. Bellringer
1. Which side would you have taken during the
Russian Revolution?
Support your answer with at least two reasons

2. Russian Revolution 1917-1922

3. Czar Nicholas II

4. Rasputin

5. Pen is mightier than the sword

6. Vladimir Lenin

7. Leon Trotsky

8. 1. Describe Lenin’s political philosophy
2. Why was Lenin sent to Siberia and later to Germany?
3. How and why did Lenin move back to Russia?
4. Why did Lenin suffer a stroke at an early age?
5. Was Lenin a successful revolutionary? When did that happen?
6. What did the Russians do with Lenin’s body when he died in 1922?
7. What important job did Trotsky have in the Russian Revolutionary government?
8. Why was Trotsky forced to leave Russia and how did he die?

9. Russia changes name to USSR

10. Lenin’s tomb

11. Choose 1 assignment
A. Write a short song or rap about Czar Nicholas’ bad
leadership from 1900-1917
B. Make a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting
the Russian Revolution & Mexican Revolution (12
total items)
C. Write a 3 paragraph letter to the St. Petersburg
newspaper regarding reforms the Czar could make
to Russia in 1914
D. 6 pane comic detailed Soviet Union glorifying the
Russian Revolution (use red and showing
communist change, removal of Czar)