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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union
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1. Openest in society - people were allowed to criticize the government.
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Crimean War 1853-1856
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Glasnost
2. The execution of the red army leaders. 90% of all generals were killed.
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Purge of the Red Army
Kornilov Affair
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
3. Socialism should stay in Russia and not be a peoples movement - only soviet.
On Party Unity
Socialism in one Country
five year plans
Darya Sevastopolskaya
4. Take Rus out of war/ food for everyone/ split up land of nobility . Don't listen to Provision government.
Purge of the Red Army
Leon Trotsky
Bureaucratic Centralism
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
5. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.
General Secretary
Trust in Cadres
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Purge of the Red Army
6. Public elections for congress of USSR - allows for more parties in USSR.
five year plans
Zastoi
Leo Tolstoy
Demokratizatsiya
7. Minimization of state - sub-group of Socialism.
Kadets/Octoberists
Zastoi
Anarchism
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
8. Socialist/prime minister who leads the previsionary government.
Redemptive Dues
Bureaucratic Centralism
Intelligentsia
Alexander Kerensky
9. State owned land to family/ is the basis for the rapid heavy industrialization. part of the five year plan.
Chernobyl
Slavophiles
Collectivization
Leo Tolstoy
10. The 40year program-freed Serfs had to payback money to nobles through the state
Leo Tolstoy
Redemptive Dues
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Alexander Herzen
11. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks
Great purges (1936-1938)
War Communism
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Westernizers
12. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine
Purge of the Red Army
Chernobyl
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Trust in Cadres
13. Stagnation during 80's - economically and in politburo
Redemptive Dues
General Secretary
Zastoi
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
14. General secretary of USSR - had 2 coups against his reformation
Mikhail Gorbachev
Stollypin
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
Lenin
15. Government buying food from peasants at a fixed price/ taking over of industry by state.
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
War Communism
Cheka
Slavophiles
16. People/Populist movement
Cheka
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Westernizers
On Party Unity
17. Secret police force created by Bolsheviks - became the KGB.
Cheka
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Perestroika
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
18. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin
October Manifesto 1905
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Nikolai Bukharin
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
19. Owner of Production/ Seller of time (laborer)
Intelligentsia
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Collectivization
20. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Lenin
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Alexander Herzen
21. Started Marxist movement while in exile in Geneve/ one of the fractions of the Narodnichestvo Movement
Obshchina
Cheka
Crimean War 1853-1856
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
22. Police Agent who led workers to red square to ask for a raise/ The mass killing of workers at red square by guards.
Socialism in one Country
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
23. Brezhnev main party representation - were in central committee.
April Theses
Trust in Cadres
Leo Tolstoy
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
24. The execution of Russian Soviet Party members - formally old Bolsheviks.
Anarchism
Great purges (1936-1938)
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
25. The result of losing Bethlehem to France - O.F.E.A vs. Russia
Crimean War 1853-1856
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Kadets/Octoberists
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
26. A group of Intelligentsia-conservatives who wanted to keep Russia the way it has been.
General Secretary
Slavophiles
Lev Kamenev
New Thinking
27. The government that is set up after the fall of the Romanov Dynasty and previsionary government.
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28. Military leader-wanted to take military control of Rus and get out of war. 'Train accident' by workers party.
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Kornilov Affair
Anarchism
Collectivization
29. Stalins economical scape goats/ rich peasants who could hire work
October Manifesto 1905
Kulaks
General Secretary
On Party Unity
30. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - studied the lives of the working class and founder of RSDWP.
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Lenin
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Great purges (1936-1938)
31. One of Alexander II action - started Redemptive Dues and changed the economy towards more industrial.
NEP (New Economic Policy)
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
32. Focused on rapid heavy industrialization in a command economy. issued by stalin
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Nikolai Bukharin
five year plans
Nikolai Chernychevsky
33. Female Russia medic who helped out during Crimean War.
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Kulaks
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Stollypin
34. Wrote 'War & Peace' - believed in peaceful protest.
Kulaks
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Crimean War 1853-1856
Leo Tolstoy
35. A group of factory workers that set up legislature/ a massive strike led by Leon Trotsky.
Glasnost
On Party Unity
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
36. Nobel Anarchist- Believed peasants (freed serfs) could overthrow Russian Empire.
Mikhail Bakunin
Glasnost
Crimean War 1853-1856
Lev Kamenev
37. Focused on peasantry led revolution w/peasants. 41% of congress.
Brest-Litovsk
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Slavophiles
Great purges (1936-1938)
38. Liberal Economist- exiled to Siberia for 20 years.
April Theses
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Nikolai Chernychevsky
39. Majority/Minority - 24% to 3% of congress.
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Alexander Herzen
40. State control of key industry ex. electrical - road - military.
Great purges (1936-1938)
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Socialism in one Country
Kulaks
41. 'Soviets' come to party congress for election of collective leadership who is a small group who chooses the Gensec.
Purge of the Red Army
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Intelligentsia
October Manifesto 1905
42. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.
Kulaks
Glasnost
Lev Kamenev
Stollypin
43. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions
New Thinking
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Purge of the Red Army
Stollypin
44. Were serfs stayed under strict conditions - peasant communities.
Brest-Litovsk
Obshchina
Bureaucratic Centralism
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
45. Agreement to end war with germany gave up ukraine - poland - baltic states.
Westernizers
Mikhail Bakunin
Brest-Litovsk
Alexander Herzen
46. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Cheka
Glasnost
Westernizers
47. Controlled russian legislature - Was President of Russia -lead coup against Gorbachev
Nikolai Bukharin
Purge of the Red Army
Boris Yeltsin
Westernizers
48. Develop Democratic Centralism- no organized group to voice opinions. Eliminated war communism with NEP.
On Party Unity
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
General Secretary
Alexander Herzen
49. Intelligentsia went to the peasants to discuss their revolution plans. Plan backfires and intelligentsia members get arrested.
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Lenin
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
50. Two revolutionary brothers-Hanged for assassination Alexander II/ Lenin
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Socialism in one Country
Cheka