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