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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union

Subjects : dsst, history
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1. Socialism should stay in Russia and not be a peoples movement - only soviet.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. People/Populist movement






10. Focused on rapid heavy industrialization in a command economy. issued by stalin






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






12. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






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






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






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






16. Founded in Minsk -1893. Meeting in 1903 splints party into 2 groups. Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks






17. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.






18. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.






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






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






29. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. General secretary of USSR - had 2 coups against his reformation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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

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






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






46. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin






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






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






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






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