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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union
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1. The government that is set up after the fall of the Romanov Dynasty and previsionary government.
2. The 40year program-freed Serfs had to payback money to nobles through the state
General Secretary
Redemptive Dues
Collectivization
Mikhail Gorbachev
3. Nobel Anarchist- Believed peasants (freed serfs) could overthrow Russian Empire.
War Communism
April Theses
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Bakunin
4. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin
Nikolai Bukharin
Obshchina
five year plans
Redemptive Dues
5. The result of losing Bethlehem to France - O.F.E.A vs. Russia
Stollypin
Crimean War 1853-1856
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Boris Yeltsin
6. Government buying food from peasants at a fixed price/ taking over of industry by state.
War Communism
Socialism in one Country
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Obshchina
7. Take Rus out of war/ food for everyone/ split up land of nobility . Don't listen to Provision government.
Redemptive Dues
Cheka
Great purges (1936-1938)
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
8. Reduce nuclear weapons - treaty with USA - stop worrying about other states policy
New Thinking
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Cheka
Purge of the Red Army
9. Krushnev's opinion on Stalin at the 20th party congress.
Lev Kamenev
Crimean War 1853-1856
Desalinization
Mikhail Gorbachev
10. People/Populist movement
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
General Secretary
Chernobyl
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
11. Socialist/prime minister who leads the previsionary government.
Alexander Kerensky
Intelligentsia
Nikolai Bukharin
Lev Kamenev
12. Started Marxist movement while in exile in Geneve/ one of the fractions of the Narodnichestvo Movement
Lev Kamenev
On Party Unity
Lenin
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
13. One of the members of Bosheviks - head of Moscow
Slavophiles
Purge of the Red Army
Lev Kamenev
Brest-Litovsk
14. State control of key industry ex. electrical - road - military.
NEP (New Economic Policy)
October Manifesto 1905
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Kadets/Octoberists
15. Losing war for Rus. enemy had major naval advantage that destroyed Rus. Navy. Ended by US treaty.
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Chernobyl
Obshchina
Brest-Litovsk
16. The execution of Russian Soviet Party members - formally old Bolsheviks.
Great purges (1936-1938)
Lev Kamenev
Intelligentsia
Alexander Herzen
17. Focused on rapid heavy industrialization in a command economy. issued by stalin
five year plans
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Stollypin
Lenin
18. Minimization of state - sub-group of Socialism.
Collectivization
Anarchism
Kulaks
Socialist Revolutionary Party
19. Focused on peasantry led revolution w/peasants. 41% of congress.
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Alexander Kerensky
Leon Trotsky
Stollypin
20. Openest in society - people were allowed to criticize the government.
Glasnost
Chernobyl
Purge of the Red Army
On Party Unity
21. Public elections for congress of USSR - allows for more parties in USSR.
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Brest-Litovsk
Redemptive Dues
Demokratizatsiya
22. Develop Democratic Centralism- no organized group to voice opinions. Eliminated war communism with NEP.
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Socialist Revolutionary Party
On Party Unity
23. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.
New Thinking
Westernizers
Lenin
Stollypin
24. A group of Intelligentsia-conservatives who wanted to keep Russia the way it has been.
Anarchism
Demokratizatsiya
Slavophiles
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
25. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.
Alexander Herzen
October Manifesto 1905
Bureaucratic Centralism
Intelligentsia
26. General secretary of USSR - had 2 coups against his reformation
Brest-Litovsk
Mikhail Gorbachev
Alexander Herzen
War Communism
27. Stagnation during 80's - economically and in politburo
Kornilov Affair
Zastoi
Anarchism
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
28. Educated nobel group - were called radicals-knew Russia and western thinking.
Intelligentsia
Anarchism
Kornilov Affair
Purge of the Red Army
29. Liberal Economist- exiled to Siberia for 20 years.
War Communism
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Desalinization
Nikolai Chernychevsky
30. Secret police force created by Bolsheviks - became the KGB.
October Manifesto 1905
Leon Trotsky
Stollypin
Cheka
31. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals
Collectivization
Obshchina
Westernizers
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
32. Liberal party (democrats)/wanted constitutional monarchy.
Great purges (1936-1938)
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Obshchina
Kadets/Octoberists
33. Lenins return from exile in germany - gives speech to the people- take charge and be a socialist.
Boris Yeltsin
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
April Theses
War Communism
34. Controlled russian legislature - Was President of Russia -lead coup against Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Perestroika
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Brest-Litovsk
35. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - studied the lives of the working class and founder of RSDWP.
Lenin
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Lev Kamenev
Kadets/Octoberists
36. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Socialism in one Country
Redemptive Dues
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
37. Intelligentsia went to the peasants to discuss their revolution plans. Plan backfires and intelligentsia members get arrested.
War Communism
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Boris Yeltsin
Brest-Litovsk
38. 'Soviets' come to party congress for election of collective leadership who is a small group who chooses the Gensec.
Kulaks
Demokratizatsiya
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
39. Agreement to end war with germany gave up ukraine - poland - baltic states.
Brest-Litovsk
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Leo Tolstoy
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
40. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
General Secretary
41. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Anarchism
Westernizers
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
42. Owner of Production/ Seller of time (laborer)
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Slavophiles
43. Founded in Minsk -1893. Meeting in 1903 splints party into 2 groups. Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Westernizers
Zastoi
Bureaucratic Centralism
44. Brezhnev main party representation - were in central committee.
Chernobyl
Obshchina
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Trust in Cadres
45. One of Alexander II action - started Redemptive Dues and changed the economy towards more industrial.
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Intelligentsia
Zastoi
46. Tsar Nicholas issued laws of liberal citizenship (duma) just like US bill of rights.
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Slavophiles
October Manifesto 1905
Anarchism
47. A group of factory workers that set up legislature/ a massive strike led by Leon Trotsky.
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
Mikhail Gorbachev
General Secretary
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
48. Majority/Minority - 24% to 3% of congress.
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Leon Trotsky
Westernizers
49. Socialism should stay in Russia and not be a peoples movement - only soviet.
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Socialism in one Country
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
50. State owned land to family/ is the basis for the rapid heavy industrialization. part of the five year plan.
five year plans
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Collectivization