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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union
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1. State control of key industry ex. electrical - road - military.
General Secretary
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
Nikolai Chernychevsky
NEP (New Economic Policy)
2. Liberal party (democrats)/wanted constitutional monarchy.
Kadets/Octoberists
Brest-Litovsk
Slavophiles
Mikhail Bakunin
3. Bureaucracy that controlled everything in state/people. ex.. art and literature was about state - family was to reproduce for state
Alexander Herzen
Bureaucratic Centralism
Chernobyl
Kulaks
4. Minimization of state - sub-group of Socialism.
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Crimean War 1853-1856
Anarchism
Westernizers
5. Government buying food from peasants at a fixed price/ taking over of industry by state.
Leon Trotsky
War Communism
Kadets/Octoberists
Zastoi
6. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.
Stollypin
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
7. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.
Trust in Cadres
Alexander Herzen
Crimean War 1853-1856
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
8. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Bureaucratic Centralism
Stollypin
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
9. State owned land to family/ is the basis for the rapid heavy industrialization. part of the five year plan.
Collectivization
Zastoi
Kornilov Affair
Nikolai Chernychevsky
10. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine
Chernobyl
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
11. Reduce nuclear weapons - treaty with USA - stop worrying about other states policy
Great purges (1936-1938)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
New Thinking
12. Socialist/prime minister who leads the previsionary government.
War Communism
Brest-Litovsk
Leon Trotsky
Alexander Kerensky
13. The result of losing Bethlehem to France - O.F.E.A vs. Russia
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Crimean War 1853-1856
Kadets/Octoberists
Great purges (1936-1938)
14. Educated nobel group - were called radicals-knew Russia and western thinking.
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Intelligentsia
Purge of the Red Army
Alexander Herzen
15. Tsar Nicholas issued laws of liberal citizenship (duma) just like US bill of rights.
October Manifesto 1905
Kulaks
Great purges (1936-1938)
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
16. The 40year program-freed Serfs had to payback money to nobles through the state
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Intelligentsia
Redemptive Dues
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
17. Agreement to end war with germany gave up ukraine - poland - baltic states.
Kulaks
Brest-Litovsk
Nikolai Bukharin
Mikhail Bakunin
18. Liberal Economist- exiled to Siberia for 20 years.
Nikolai Chernychevsky
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Collectivization
Redemptive Dues
19. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - studied the lives of the working class and founder of RSDWP.
Anarchism
Lenin
General Secretary
Socialist Revolutionary Party
20. Started Marxist movement while in exile in Geneve/ one of the fractions of the Narodnichestvo Movement
Lenin
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
21. Were serfs stayed under strict conditions - peasant communities.
Westernizers
Cheka
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Obshchina
22. General secretary of USSR - had 2 coups against his reformation
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Mikhail Gorbachev
Alexander Kerensky
Socialism in one Country
23. Socialism should stay in Russia and not be a peoples movement - only soviet.
Socialism in one Country
Slavophiles
Obshchina
Socialist Revolutionary Party
24. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
Redemptive Dues
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
25. One of the members of Bosheviks - head of Moscow
Leon Trotsky
War Communism
Lev Kamenev
Desalinization
26. Owner of Production/ Seller of time (laborer)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Crimean War 1853-1856
Nikolai Bukharin
27. Focused on peasantry led revolution w/peasants. 41% of congress.
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
October Manifesto 1905
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
28. Restructure in USSR by Gorbachev - renounces true socialism by Lenin.
Obshchina
Perestroika
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Nikolai Chernychevsky
29. Controlled russian legislature - Was President of Russia -lead coup against Gorbachev
Nikolai Bukharin
Glasnost
Boris Yeltsin
Lenin
30. Menshevik who led the soviet workers deputies at St.Petersburg
New Thinking
General Secretary
Zastoi
Leon Trotsky
31. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.
General Secretary
October Manifesto 1905
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
32. People/Populist movement
Kadets/Octoberists
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Brest-Litovsk
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
33. Military leader-wanted to take military control of Rus and get out of war. 'Train accident' by workers party.
Trust in Cadres
Kornilov Affair
five year plans
NEP (New Economic Policy)
34. A group of Intelligentsia-conservatives who wanted to keep Russia the way it has been.
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Slavophiles
35. Female Russia medic who helped out during Crimean War.
Intelligentsia
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Nikolai Chernychevsky
36. Develop Democratic Centralism- no organized group to voice opinions. Eliminated war communism with NEP.
Trust in Cadres
Lev Kamenev
On Party Unity
New Thinking
37. Openest in society - people were allowed to criticize the government.
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Great purges (1936-1938)
Lev Kamenev
Glasnost
38. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals
Leon Trotsky
Westernizers
Nikolai Bukharin
April Theses
39. '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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leo Tolstoy
Socialism in one Country
40. Intelligentsia went to the peasants to discuss their revolution plans. Plan backfires and intelligentsia members get arrested.
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
41. One of Alexander II action - started Redemptive Dues and changed the economy towards more industrial.
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Mikhail Bakunin
42. Public elections for congress of USSR - allows for more parties in USSR.
Obshchina
Demokratizatsiya
October Manifesto 1905
Zastoi
43. The execution of Russian Soviet Party members - formally old Bolsheviks.
Great purges (1936-1938)
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Leon Trotsky
Desalinization
44. Krushnev's opinion on Stalin at the 20th party congress.
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Desalinization
five year plans
45. Wrote 'War & Peace' - believed in peaceful protest.
Zastoi
October Manifesto 1905
Leo Tolstoy
Cheka
46. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks
Kadets/Octoberists
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
47. Police Agent who led workers to red square to ask for a raise/ The mass killing of workers at red square by guards.
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
48. Losing war for Rus. enemy had major naval advantage that destroyed Rus. Navy. Ended by US treaty.
Zastoi
April Theses
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Socialist Revolutionary Party
49. Two revolutionary brothers-Hanged for assassination Alexander II/ Lenin
Mikhail Bakunin
Kadets/Octoberists
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
50. Focused on rapid heavy industrialization in a command economy. issued by stalin
five year plans
Chernobyl
Anarchism
Kulaks