Question

Match the descriptions to the Bolsheviks or the Mensheviks.

believed that revolution was the

only way to bring about change

thought the proletariat would take

control when they were ready

joined the White Army during

the Russian Revolution

led by Vladimir Lenin

believed that reform would

come about gradually

joined the Red Army during

the Russian Revolution

Answer 1

Answer:

Led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d’État against Russia’s ineffectual Provisional Government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and within two days had formed a new government with Lenin as its head. Bolshevik Russia, later renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was the world’s first Marxist state.