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