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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union

Subjects : dsst, history
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1. Socialist/prime minister who leads the previsionary government.






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






3. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks






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






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






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






7. Bureaucracy that controlled everything in state/people. ex.. art and literature was about state - family was to reproduce for state






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






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






10. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine






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






12. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






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






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






15. Losing war for Rus. enemy had major naval advantage that destroyed Rus. Navy. Ended by US treaty.






16. People/Populist movement






17. Tsar Nicholas issued laws of liberal citizenship (duma) just like US bill of rights.






18. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.






19. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.






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






21. Develop Democratic Centralism- no organized group to voice opinions. Eliminated war communism with NEP.






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






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






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






25. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.






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






27. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. The government that is set up after the fall of the Romanov Dynasty and previsionary government.


35. The execution of the red army leaders. 90% of all generals were killed.






36. Socialism should stay in Russia and not be a peoples movement - only soviet.






37. One of Alexander II action - started Redemptive Dues and changed the economy towards more industrial.






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






39. A group of Intelligentsia-conservatives who wanted to keep Russia the way it has been.






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






41. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin






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






43. State control of key industry ex. electrical - road - military.






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






45. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.






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






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






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






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






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