The Russian Revolution and Political Ideologies

This is an incorrect statement. Radicals opposed the privileges of great land owners and wealthy factory owners.

Liberals opposed the uncontrolled power of dynastic rulers and wanted to safeguard the rights of individuals against governments.  

This is the correct answer as socialists saw private property as a root to all social ills of the time. They thought that if the society as a whole rather than as individuals controlled property, then more attention will be paid to collective social interests.

This is the correct answer as Karl Marx was a German philosopher who developed the theory of international communism and argued that industrial society was capitalist and workers had to free themselves from capitalist exploitation by building a radically socialist society where all property was socially controlled.

This is the correct answer as the majority religion of Russians was the Russian Orthodox Christianity, though there were people of other religions as well in the Russian empire.

This is the correct answer as Russian workers were divided on the basis of their skill.

This is the correct answer. The Second International was an international body formed by the socialists. It was formed to coordinate the efforts of the socialists.

This is the correct answer as Russia was a major exporter of grain.

This is the correct answer. Robert Owen was a leading English manufacturer and sought to build a cooperative community in USA. Louis Blanc wanted the government in France to encourage cooperatives and replace capitalist enterprises.

This is the correct answer as all the statements are correct. All political parties were illegal in Russia before 1914. The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party was founded in 1898 by socialists who respected Marx's ideas. Socialists in the countryside formed the Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1900 and struggled for peasants' rights and demanded that land belonging to nobles be transferred to peasants.

The procession of workers was led by Father Gapon and when it reached the Winter Palace, it was attacked by the police and the Cossacks. Over 100 workers were killed and about 300 wounded. This incident was known as Bloody Sunday. It started a series of events that came to be known as the 1905 Revolution.

No, as the Tsar abdicated on 2^nd March, 1917.

This is the correct answer as both statements are correct. The Tsar allowed the formation of the first elected consultative Parliament or Duma during the 1905 Revolution. The Tsar dismissed the first Duma within 75 days and the re-elected second Duma within three months.

This is the correct answer as both statements are correct. The peasants seized the lands from July 1917 to September 1917. Land committees were formed for redistribution of land.

This is the correct answer as the 'April Theses' declared that the war be brought to a close, land be transferred to the peasants, and banks be nationalised. These three demands made by Vladimir Lenin on his return from exile in April were the 'April Theses'.

This is the correct answer as the Provisional Government took stern measures to control the workers and arrested leaders and demonstrations staged by the Bolsheviks in July 1917 were sternly repressed. On 16^th October, 1917, Lenin persuaded the Petrograd Soviet and the Bolshevik Party to agree to a socialist seizure of power and Military Revolutionary Committee was appointed.