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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union

Subjects : dsst, history
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1. Losing war for Rus. enemy had major naval advantage that destroyed Rus. Navy. Ended by US treaty.






2. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






12. People/Populist movement






13. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks






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






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






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






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






18. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.






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






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






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






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






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






24. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine






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






44. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.






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






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






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






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






49. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals






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