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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union

Subjects : dsst, history
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Owner of Production/ Seller of time (laborer)






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






3. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine






4. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin






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






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






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






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






9. The government that is set up after the fall of the Romanov Dynasty and previsionary government.

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






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






12. State owned land to family/ is the basis for the rapid heavy industrialization. part of the five year plan.






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






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






15. One of Alexander II action - started Redemptive Dues and changed the economy towards more industrial.






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






17. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






18. People/Populist movement






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






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






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






22. Lenins return from exile in germany - gives speech to the people- take charge and be a socialist.






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






24. Agreement to end war with germany gave up ukraine - poland - baltic states.






25. Government buying food from peasants at a fixed price/ taking over of industry by state.






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






27. Intelligentsia went to the peasants to discuss their revolution plans. Plan backfires and intelligentsia members get arrested.






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






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






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






31. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.






32. Were serfs stayed under strict conditions - peasant communities.






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






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






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






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






37. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals






38. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.






39. One of the members of Bosheviks - head of Moscow






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






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






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






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






44. Public elections for congress of USSR - allows for more parties in USSR.






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






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






47. Stagnation during 80's - economically and in politburo






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






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






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