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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union

Subjects : dsst, history
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1. Liberal party (democrats)/wanted constitutional monarchy.






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






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






4. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks






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






6. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.






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






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


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






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






22. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






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






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






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






35. People/Populist movement






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






37. Socialist/prime minister who leads the previsionary government.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Two revolutionary brothers-Hanged for assassination Alexander II/ Lenin






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






47. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin






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






49. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.






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