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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union
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1. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin
Obshchina
Nikolai Bukharin
Kadets/Octoberists
Stollypin
2. People/Populist movement
Westernizers
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
3. Develop Democratic Centralism- no organized group to voice opinions. Eliminated war communism with NEP.
On Party Unity
Mikhail Bakunin
Leon Trotsky
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
4. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Alexander Kerensky
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
NEP (New Economic Policy)
5. Restructure in USSR by Gorbachev - renounces true socialism by Lenin.
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Boris Yeltsin
Perestroika
Intelligentsia
6. Founded in Minsk -1893. Meeting in 1903 splints party into 2 groups. Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Zastoi
7. The execution of the red army leaders. 90% of all generals were killed.
Purge of the Red Army
Demokratizatsiya
Brest-Litovsk
April Theses
8. Intelligentsia went to the peasants to discuss their revolution plans. Plan backfires and intelligentsia members get arrested.
Cheka
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Leo Tolstoy
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
9. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - studied the lives of the working class and founder of RSDWP.
Trust in Cadres
Leon Trotsky
Lenin
Kornilov Affair
10. Liberal party (democrats)/wanted constitutional monarchy.
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Kadets/Octoberists
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Collectivization
11. Krushnev's opinion on Stalin at the 20th party congress.
Glasnost
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Desalinization
12. Focused on rapid heavy industrialization in a command economy. issued by stalin
Kadets/Octoberists
New Thinking
five year plans
Brest-Litovsk
13. Started Marxist movement while in exile in Geneve/ one of the fractions of the Narodnichestvo Movement
Bureaucratic Centralism
Socialism in one Country
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Obshchina
14. Nobel Anarchist- Believed peasants (freed serfs) could overthrow Russian Empire.
Bureaucratic Centralism
Mikhail Bakunin
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Alexander Herzen
15. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine
Chernobyl
Leon Trotsky
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Zastoi
16. Two revolutionary brothers-Hanged for assassination Alexander II/ Lenin
April Theses
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
17. Educated nobel group - were called radicals-knew Russia and western thinking.
Intelligentsia
Socialism in one Country
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
18. Bureaucracy that controlled everything in state/people. ex.. art and literature was about state - family was to reproduce for state
Bureaucratic Centralism
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Nikolai Bukharin
Mikhail Gorbachev
19. One of Alexander II action - started Redemptive Dues and changed the economy towards more industrial.
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
October Manifesto 1905
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
20. The 40year program-freed Serfs had to payback money to nobles through the state
Socialism in one Country
Kadets/Octoberists
Redemptive Dues
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
21. Stalins economical scape goats/ rich peasants who could hire work
Kulaks
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
On Party Unity
five year plans
22. Controlled russian legislature - Was President of Russia -lead coup against Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Kornilov Affair
Purge of the Red Army
Boris Yeltsin
23. A group of factory workers that set up legislature/ a massive strike led by Leon Trotsky.
Purge of the Red Army
Alexander Herzen
Desalinization
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
24. Majority/Minority - 24% to 3% of congress.
On Party Unity
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Leo Tolstoy
Westernizers
25. Minimization of state - sub-group of Socialism.
Anarchism
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
October Manifesto 1905
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
26. 'Soviets' come to party congress for election of collective leadership who is a small group who chooses the Gensec.
Demokratizatsiya
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
27. Take Rus out of war/ food for everyone/ split up land of nobility . Don't listen to Provision government.
Lev Kamenev
War Communism
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Redemptive Dues
28. One of the members of Bosheviks - head of Moscow
Socialism in one Country
New Thinking
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Lev Kamenev
29. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Stollypin
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
30. Socialist/prime minister who leads the previsionary government.
Alexander Kerensky
Redemptive Dues
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
31. Wrote 'War & Peace' - believed in peaceful protest.
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Leo Tolstoy
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Socialism in one Country
32. Public elections for congress of USSR - allows for more parties in USSR.
April Theses
Trust in Cadres
Desalinization
Demokratizatsiya
33. Secret police force created by Bolsheviks - became the KGB.
Demokratizatsiya
Glasnost
Cheka
October Manifesto 1905
34. The execution of Russian Soviet Party members - formally old Bolsheviks.
Great purges (1936-1938)
Purge of the Red Army
Desalinization
NEP (New Economic Policy)
35. A group of Intelligentsia-conservatives who wanted to keep Russia the way it has been.
Obshchina
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Slavophiles
Perestroika
36. Military leader-wanted to take military control of Rus and get out of war. 'Train accident' by workers party.
Kadets/Octoberists
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Kornilov Affair
Great purges (1936-1938)
37. State control of key industry ex. electrical - road - military.
NEP (New Economic Policy)
General Secretary
Perestroika
Alexander Kerensky
38. Liberal Economist- exiled to Siberia for 20 years.
Intelligentsia
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
General Secretary
39. Government buying food from peasants at a fixed price/ taking over of industry by state.
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Lenin
Collectivization
War Communism
40. Stagnation during 80's - economically and in politburo
Bureaucratic Centralism
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Zastoi
41. The result of losing Bethlehem to France - O.F.E.A vs. Russia
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Intelligentsia
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Crimean War 1853-1856
42. Lenins return from exile in germany - gives speech to the people- take charge and be a socialist.
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
New Thinking
April Theses
43. Female Russia medic who helped out during Crimean War.
Westernizers
Leon Trotsky
Kadets/Octoberists
Darya Sevastopolskaya
44. Brezhnev main party representation - were in central committee.
Trust in Cadres
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
45. State owned land to family/ is the basis for the rapid heavy industrialization. part of the five year plan.
Cheka
Kornilov Affair
Collectivization
October Manifesto 1905
46. General secretary of USSR - had 2 coups against his reformation
War Communism
Perestroika
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Mikhail Gorbachev
47. Openest in society - people were allowed to criticize the government.
Glasnost
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Lev Kamenev
Nikolai Bukharin
48. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Collectivization
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Obshchina
49. Tsar Nicholas issued laws of liberal citizenship (duma) just like US bill of rights.
five year plans
Perestroika
On Party Unity
October Manifesto 1905
50. Owner of Production/ Seller of time (laborer)
Chernobyl
General Secretary
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Great purges (1936-1938)