AHLCON PUBLIC SCHOOL

Session 2022-23

SUBJECT: HISTORY WORKSHEET

CLASS: IX

TOPIC: Section I- Events and Processes:-

Unit II: Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution

NOTE: QUESTIONS MARKED WITH AN ** MAY BE DONE FOR H.W.

(As per CBSE guidelines, the images/pictures and extra information provided in each chapter in
the form of Sources and Boxes may also be evaluated)

Ch.1: The Age of Social Change

1. ** Examine the attitude of Europeans who came to be called Liberals, Radicals and
Conservatives. (Write your answer under suitable headings; Page 25-26; 1/3 marks)
2. What do you understand by the “suffragette movement”? (Page 26; 1 mark)
3. Explain the impact/ changes brought caused by industrialisation upon European society,
economy and polity. (Page 26-28 1st para; 3/5 marks)
4. ** What is the meaning of socialism? Briefly explain. (Page 28; 1 mark)
5. ** Examine the views of Marx and Engels on socialism and communism. (Page 28; 3 marks)

Ch.2: The Russian Revolution

1. Describe the Russian Empire in 1914. (Page 30; 1/3 marks)

2. ** Discuss the condition of Russian workers and the industrial economy in the early 20th century.
(Page 31; 3/5 marks)
3. ** Examine the condition of the Russian peasantry and the rural economy before the 1905
revolution/ in the early 20th century. (Page 31, last para- 32, 2nd para ; 3 marks)
4. ** Describe how socialism emerged in Russia. Name the early socialist political parties and state
their beliefs. (Page 32; 1/3/5 marks)
5. ** Discuss why and how revolution took place in Russia in 1905. (Page 32, last para-33, 3rd
para; 3/5 marks)
6. ** Examine the attitude of Tsar Nicholas II towards the Duma immediately after the 1905
revolution. (Page 33, 4th para; 1/3 marks)
7. ** State the impact of World War 1 on the Tsar and people’s attitude towards him. How did the
War differ on the “western” and “eastern” fronts? (Page 33, last para-34,3rd para; 3/5 marks)
8. Examine the impact of World War 1 on Russia’s economy. (Page 34, last para; 1/3 marks)
9. Explain the meaning of the following terms: Tsar, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Autocracy, Jadidists,
“real wages”, “Bloody Sunday incident”, Duma, “western front”, “eastern front”. (1 mark each)
10. ** Map question given along with map (I).

Ch.3: The February Revolution in Petrograd

1. ** Describe the social, economic and political conditions in Petrograd in February 1917. (Page
35-36, 1st para; 5 marks)
2. State the significance of the date 22nd February, 1917. (1 mark)
3. What was the Petrograd Soviet? (1 mark)
4. Examine the circumstances in which the Tsar abdicated. (Page 36, 1st para; 3 marks)
OR How was the Provisional Government formed? (Page 36, 1st para; 3 marks)
OR What happened in the February Revolution in 1917? (Page 36, 1st para; 3 marks)
5. What was Lenin’s “April Theses”? (Page 36, 2nd para; 1/3 marks)
6. ** Describe the major political and economic developments in Russia under the Provisional
Government / after the February Revolution of 1917. (Page 36,2nd para – Page 37; 3/5 marks)
7. ** Examine the circumstances in which the October Revolution took place in 1917. (Page 38;
3/5 marks)
 Ch.4: What Changed after October?

1. ** Analyze how the Bolsheviks organised the social, economic and political situation in Russia
after the October 1917 Revolution. (Page 39; 3/5 marks)
2. What was the Cheka? (1 mark)
3. ** Explain the reasons why the Bolsheviks adopted centralised planning / Five Year Plans. Did it
have the desired results? Explain. (Page 42; 3/5 marks)
OR Describe how the Bolsheviks used Five Year Plans to create a socialist society in the
USSR. (Page 42; 3/5 marks)
4. ** Examine the reasons why collectivisation was introduced in Soviet Russia. (Page 44, 1st, 2nd
& 3rd para; 3/5 marks)
5. ** Discuss the features of collectivisation under Stalin. (Page 44, 4th para; 3 marks)
6. ** Examine the impact of collectivisation. (Page 44, last para – 45; 3 marks)
7. Explain the meaning of the following terms: autonomy, nomadism, kulaks, kolkhoz,
collectivisation. (1 mark each)

Ch.5: The Global Influence of the Russian Revolution and the USSR

1. What was the Comintern? (1 mark)

2. ** Examine the early impact of the Bolsheviks on people across the world. (Page 46, 1st para;
1/3 marks)
3. ** Examine the reaction towards the Bolsheviks within and outside the USSR after the 1950’s.
(Page 46, last para; 1/3 marks)

MAP WORK QUESTIONS:-

Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution: Ch.2- The Russian Revolution-Map I

(Please refer to the map on page 30 in the NCERT textbook)

MAP I GIVEN BELOW IS TO BE DONE IN PENCIL & PASTED IN YOUR COPY / USE A
POLITICAL WORLD MAP:
Mark and label the following (MAKE AN APPROPRIATE KEY, using two separate symbols for
Central Power countries & Allied countries)
1) Shade and label - Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
2) Shade and label - Allied Powers: England, France, Russia, USA