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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union

Subjects : dsst, history
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1. Focused on rapid heavy industrialization in a command economy. issued by stalin






2. Educated nobel group - were called radicals-knew Russia and western thinking.






3. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks






4. Female Russia medic who helped out during Crimean War.






5. Founded in Minsk -1893. Meeting in 1903 splints party into 2 groups. Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks






6. Military leader-wanted to take military control of Rus and get out of war. 'Train accident' by workers party.






7. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals






8. Wrote 'War & Peace' - believed in peaceful protest.






9. Secret police force created by Bolsheviks - became the KGB.






10. Brezhnev main party representation - were in central committee.






11. Stalins economical scape goats/ rich peasants who could hire work






12. Focused on peasantry led revolution w/peasants. 41% of congress.






13. Losing war for Rus. enemy had major naval advantage that destroyed Rus. Navy. Ended by US treaty.






14. Socialism should stay in Russia and not be a peoples movement - only soviet.






15. Bureaucracy that controlled everything in state/people. ex.. art and literature was about state - family was to reproduce for state






16. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.






17. Krushnev's opinion on Stalin at the 20th party congress.






18. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






19. The execution of the red army leaders. 90% of all generals were killed.






20. Restructure in USSR by Gorbachev - renounces true socialism by Lenin.






21. 'Soviets' come to party congress for election of collective leadership who is a small group who chooses the Gensec.






22. Nobel Anarchist- Believed peasants (freed serfs) could overthrow Russian Empire.






23. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine






24. Menshevik who led the soviet workers deputies at St.Petersburg






25. Owner of Production/ Seller of time (laborer)






26. The execution of Russian Soviet Party members - formally old Bolsheviks.






27. People/Populist movement






28. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.






29. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.






30. Police Agent who led workers to red square to ask for a raise/ The mass killing of workers at red square by guards.






31. A group of Intelligentsia-conservatives who wanted to keep Russia the way it has been.






32. Reduce nuclear weapons - treaty with USA - stop worrying about other states policy






33. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - studied the lives of the working class and founder of RSDWP.






34. The 40year program-freed Serfs had to payback money to nobles through the state






35. Majority/Minority - 24% to 3% of congress.






36. Liberal Economist- exiled to Siberia for 20 years.






37. Openest in society - people were allowed to criticize the government.






38. Two revolutionary brothers-Hanged for assassination Alexander II/ Lenin






39. Liberal party (democrats)/wanted constitutional monarchy.






40. Controlled russian legislature - Was President of Russia -lead coup against Gorbachev






41. Started Marxist movement while in exile in Geneve/ one of the fractions of the Narodnichestvo Movement






42. State control of key industry ex. electrical - road - military.






43. The result of losing Bethlehem to France - O.F.E.A vs. Russia






44. A group of factory workers that set up legislature/ a massive strike led by Leon Trotsky.






45. Take Rus out of war/ food for everyone/ split up land of nobility . Don't listen to Provision government.






46. Socialist/prime minister who leads the previsionary government.






47. Minimization of state - sub-group of Socialism.






48. Tsar Nicholas issued laws of liberal citizenship (duma) just like US bill of rights.






49. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.






50. Develop Democratic Centralism- no organized group to voice opinions. Eliminated war communism with NEP.