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