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The Russian Revolution Paper 2: Intermediate
The Russian Revolution Paper 2: Intermediate
Working out year gaps, population shares and treaty intervals to see how power changed hands in eight months.
Direct answers Answers and explanations for all ten questions
01 Paper details (check answers afterwards)
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Questions | 10 |
| Suggested time | 20 |
| Difficulty mix | Foundation 3 · Intermediate 3 · Challenge 3 · Error redo 1 |
| Chapter | Chapter: DSE History The Russian Revolution |
| Level | Paper 2 (intermediate) |
02 Questions (10 items)
- FoundationHow many years lie between Bloody Sunday in January 1905 and the February Revolution of 1917?
- FoundationHow many days separate the February Revolution (15 March 1917) from the October Revolution (7 November 1917)?
- FoundationRussia entered the war on 1 August 1914 and left by treaty on 3 March 1918. How many days is that?
- IntermediateIf Russia had about 175 million people in 1917 and peasants were four fifths, roughly how many peasants were there?
- IntermediateHow many years separate the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 from the 1917 revolution?
- IntermediateHow many years from the October Revolution in November 1917 to the founding of the USSR on 30 December 1922?
- ChallengeWhich two centres of power made up dual power, and why was that unstable?
- ChallengeWhat three main points did Lenin make in the April Theses?
- ChallengeWhy did the Provisional Government keep Russia in the First World War?
- Error redoError clinic: “The October Revolution was a nationwide uprising with unanimous support.” What is wrong?
03 Answers and one-line notes
| # | Answer | One-line note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 years | Subtract 1905 from 1917; the twelve years brought reform such as the October Manifesto, but war pressure exploded again. |
| 2 | 237 days | Sixteen days left in March plus 221 in the following months; within eight months power moved from the Provisional Government to the Bolsheviks. |
| 3 | 1310 days | About three years and seven months; prolonged war created the food and manpower shortages behind the revolution. |
| 4 | 140000000 people | One hundred and seventy-five million times nought point eight; peasants dominated the population, which is why land was central. |
| 5 | 56 years | Subtract 1861 from 1917; half a century later peasants still lacked land and carried debt, so the reform was called incomplete. |
| 6 | about 5 years | Subtract 1917 from 1922; civil war and war communism came first, then the republics were federated. |
| 7 | the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet; each claimed legitimacy and their orders clashed | The government relied on the old state machine and the Soviet on elected workers and soldiers, and Order No. 1 left soldiers obeying the Soviet. |
| 8 | no support for the Provisional Government, all power to the soviets, and immediate withdrawal from the imperialist war | The theses pushed the revolution from its bourgeois stage toward socialism and rejected the call to defend the fatherland. |
| 9 | it feared losing Allied loans and post-war territorial gains, and feared German reprisals | Staying in the war deepened soldiers and workers anger, which powered the Bolshevik peace slogan. |
| 10 | wrong: it was an organised armed seizure of power, backed mainly by urban workers and soldiers, with limited rural response | The rising centred on Petrograd with the Military Revolutionary Committee and Baltic sailors; calling a local operation a national consensus is a common confusion. |
04 What to do after marking
- After marking, redo only the wrong items and write down which step went wrong (formula, unit, or misread number).
- Repeat the same item two days later; move to the next paper only when both attempts are correct.
- Parents only need the answer and note columns; there is no need to explain every item.
After the date work, trace the causal chain again and every step links back to war pressure.Tutor Registration →
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