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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union
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1. The 40year program-freed Serfs had to payback money to nobles through the state
Redemptive Dues
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Boris Yeltsin
Leo Tolstoy
2. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks
Alexander Kerensky
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Kulaks
Mikhail Bakunin
3. Liberal party (democrats)/wanted constitutional monarchy.
Kadets/Octoberists
Kornilov Affair
Perestroika
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
4. Were serfs stayed under strict conditions - peasant communities.
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Kulaks
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
Obshchina
5. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.
Glasnost
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Chernobyl
Demokratizatsiya
6. Two revolutionary brothers-Hanged for assassination Alexander II/ Lenin
Alexander Herzen
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Nikolai Bukharin
Socialist Revolutionary Party
7. 'Soviets' come to party congress for election of collective leadership who is a small group who chooses the Gensec.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Chernobyl
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
8. Government buying food from peasants at a fixed price/ taking over of industry by state.
New Thinking
War Communism
Demokratizatsiya
Westernizers
9. Focused on peasantry led revolution w/peasants. 41% of congress.
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
October Manifesto 1905
10. Controlled russian legislature - Was President of Russia -lead coup against Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Glasnost
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
11. Wrote 'War & Peace' - believed in peaceful protest.
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Socialism in one Country
Leo Tolstoy
Darya Sevastopolskaya
12. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine
Glasnost
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Chernobyl
13. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions
Crimean War 1853-1856
Lev Kamenev
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
14. Police Agent who led workers to red square to ask for a raise/ The mass killing of workers at red square by guards.
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Perestroika
Bureaucratic Centralism
15. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - studied the lives of the working class and founder of RSDWP.
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Lenin
Anarchism
October Manifesto 1905
16. Restructure in USSR by Gorbachev - renounces true socialism by Lenin.
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
War Communism
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Perestroika
17. Focused on rapid heavy industrialization in a command economy. issued by stalin
General Secretary
Chernobyl
Mikhail Bakunin
five year plans
18. One of the members of Bosheviks - head of Moscow
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Lev Kamenev
Boris Yeltsin
Collectivization
19. Owner of Production/ Seller of time (laborer)
Chernobyl
Demokratizatsiya
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
War Communism
20. General secretary of USSR - had 2 coups against his reformation
Cheka
Mikhail Gorbachev
Collectivization
Perestroika
21. Losing war for Rus. enemy had major naval advantage that destroyed Rus. Navy. Ended by US treaty.
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Boris Yeltsin
Kornilov Affair
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
22. Female Russia medic who helped out during Crimean War.
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Glasnost
23. One of Alexander II action - started Redemptive Dues and changed the economy towards more industrial.
Redemptive Dues
Kornilov Affair
Chernobyl
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
24. A group of Intelligentsia-conservatives who wanted to keep Russia the way it has been.
Lenin
Anarchism
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Slavophiles
25. Menshevik who led the soviet workers deputies at St.Petersburg
Lenin
Kornilov Affair
Leon Trotsky
Socialism in one Country
26. The result of losing Bethlehem to France - O.F.E.A vs. Russia
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Slavophiles
Kornilov Affair
Crimean War 1853-1856
27. State owned land to family/ is the basis for the rapid heavy industrialization. part of the five year plan.
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Collectivization
Intelligentsia
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
28. The execution of the red army leaders. 90% of all generals were killed.
Purge of the Red Army
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Alexander Kerensky
29. Take Rus out of war/ food for everyone/ split up land of nobility . Don't listen to Provision government.
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
30. Liberal Economist- exiled to Siberia for 20 years.
April Theses
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Boris Yeltsin
Nikolai Chernychevsky
31. Founded in Minsk -1893. Meeting in 1903 splints party into 2 groups. Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Demokratizatsiya
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
32. Reduce nuclear weapons - treaty with USA - stop worrying about other states policy
Alexander Herzen
Nikolai Bukharin
Lenin
New Thinking
33. Krushnev's opinion on Stalin at the 20th party congress.
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Desalinization
Slavophiles
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
34. Agreement to end war with germany gave up ukraine - poland - baltic states.
Brest-Litovsk
Kornilov Affair
April Theses
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
35. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals
Westernizers
Bureaucratic Centralism
Glasnost
Obshchina
36. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin
Nikolai Bukharin
Perestroika
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Lenin
37. Tsar Nicholas issued laws of liberal citizenship (duma) just like US bill of rights.
five year plans
Brest-Litovsk
October Manifesto 1905
Lenin
38. The government that is set up after the fall of the Romanov Dynasty and previsionary government.
39. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.
April Theses
Alexander Herzen
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
40. People/Populist movement
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Collectivization
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
41. Brezhnev main party representation - were in central committee.
Alexander Herzen
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Trust in Cadres
Brest-Litovsk
42. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.
Bureaucratic Centralism
General Secretary
War Communism
Boris Yeltsin
43. Minimization of state - sub-group of Socialism.
Chernobyl
Leon Trotsky
Anarchism
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
44. Stalins economical scape goats/ rich peasants who could hire work
Leo Tolstoy
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Kulaks
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
45. Started Marxist movement while in exile in Geneve/ one of the fractions of the Narodnichestvo Movement
Brest-Litovsk
War Communism
Stollypin
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
46. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.
Nikolai Bukharin
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Slavophiles
Stollypin
47. Openest in society - people were allowed to criticize the government.
Lenin
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Perestroika
Glasnost
48. Majority/Minority - 24% to 3% of congress.
Crimean War 1853-1856
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
49. Secret police force created by Bolsheviks - became the KGB.
Socialism in one Country
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Cheka
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
50. Socialist/prime minister who leads the previsionary government.
Alexander Kerensky
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
Demokratizatsiya
Desalinization