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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union
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1. Tsar Nicholas issued laws of liberal citizenship (duma) just like US bill of rights.
Leo Tolstoy
October Manifesto 1905
Kadets/Octoberists
Crimean War 1853-1856
2. Focused on peasantry led revolution w/peasants. 41% of congress.
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Bureaucratic Centralism
Socialism in one Country
Obshchina
3. Were serfs stayed under strict conditions - peasant communities.
Obshchina
Anarchism
Boris Yeltsin
Kulaks
4. Intelligentsia went to the peasants to discuss their revolution plans. Plan backfires and intelligentsia members get arrested.
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
General Secretary
Perestroika
5. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Purge of the Red Army
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
6. The result of losing Bethlehem to France - O.F.E.A vs. Russia
Crimean War 1853-1856
Boris Yeltsin
Zastoi
Bureaucratic Centralism
7. Stalins economical scape goats/ rich peasants who could hire work
Boris Yeltsin
Slavophiles
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
Kulaks
8. Focused on rapid heavy industrialization in a command economy. issued by stalin
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
five year plans
Desalinization
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
9. Minimization of state - sub-group of Socialism.
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Anarchism
October Manifesto 1905
Alexander Kerensky
10. Develop Democratic Centralism- no organized group to voice opinions. Eliminated war communism with NEP.
New Thinking
On Party Unity
Leo Tolstoy
Alexander Kerensky
11. Founded in Minsk -1893. Meeting in 1903 splints party into 2 groups. Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Leo Tolstoy
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Boris Yeltsin
12. Bureaucracy that controlled everything in state/people. ex.. art and literature was about state - family was to reproduce for state
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
New Thinking
Bureaucratic Centralism
Darya Sevastopolskaya
13. General secretary of USSR - had 2 coups against his reformation
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Crimean War 1853-1856
Bureaucratic Centralism
Mikhail Gorbachev
14. The execution of Russian Soviet Party members - formally old Bolsheviks.
War Communism
Great purges (1936-1938)
Leon Trotsky
Perestroika
15. Take Rus out of war/ food for everyone/ split up land of nobility . Don't listen to Provision government.
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Glasnost
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
16. Public elections for congress of USSR - allows for more parties in USSR.
Bureaucratic Centralism
Chernobyl
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Demokratizatsiya
17. Liberal party (democrats)/wanted constitutional monarchy.
Trust in Cadres
Kadets/Octoberists
Desalinization
Crimean War 1853-1856
18. Restructure in USSR by Gorbachev - renounces true socialism by Lenin.
Stollypin
April Theses
Perestroika
Zastoi
19. Government buying food from peasants at a fixed price/ taking over of industry by state.
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Nikolai Chernychevsky
War Communism
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
20. People/Populist movement
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Bakunin
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
21. The government that is set up after the fall of the Romanov Dynasty and previsionary government.
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22. Started Marxist movement while in exile in Geneve/ one of the fractions of the Narodnichestvo Movement
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Kornilov Affair
Crimean War 1853-1856
23. Controlled russian legislature - Was President of Russia -lead coup against Gorbachev
five year plans
Collectivization
Boris Yeltsin
Crimean War 1853-1856
24. One of the members of Bosheviks - head of Moscow
Lev Kamenev
New Thinking
Brest-Litovsk
Kornilov Affair
25. The execution of the red army leaders. 90% of all generals were killed.
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
New Thinking
Purge of the Red Army
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
26. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Glasnost
Alexander Kerensky
Westernizers
27. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.
General Secretary
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Cheka
Lev Kamenev
28. A group of Intelligentsia-conservatives who wanted to keep Russia the way it has been.
Great purges (1936-1938)
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Slavophiles
29. Female Russia medic who helped out during Crimean War.
Collectivization
Purge of the Red Army
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Brest-Litovsk
30. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Chernobyl
31. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.
Stollypin
Kornilov Affair
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Darya Sevastopolskaya
32. State owned land to family/ is the basis for the rapid heavy industrialization. part of the five year plan.
War Communism
Cheka
Brest-Litovsk
Collectivization
33. State control of key industry ex. electrical - road - military.
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Slavophiles
Chernobyl
34. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Alexander Kerensky
five year plans
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
35. Losing war for Rus. enemy had major naval advantage that destroyed Rus. Navy. Ended by US treaty.
Slavophiles
Stollypin
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Anarchism
36. Socialism should stay in Russia and not be a peoples movement - only soviet.
Lev Kamenev
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
Intelligentsia
Socialism in one Country
37. Krushnev's opinion on Stalin at the 20th party congress.
Desalinization
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
Bureaucratic Centralism
Lev Kamenev
38. The 40year program-freed Serfs had to payback money to nobles through the state
Alexander Herzen
Trust in Cadres
Redemptive Dues
Brest-Litovsk
39. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.
Intelligentsia
Obshchina
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Alexander Herzen
40. Majority/Minority - 24% to 3% of congress.
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Crimean War 1853-1856
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
41. Openest in society - people were allowed to criticize the government.
Glasnost
General Secretary
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Perestroika
42. 'Soviets' come to party congress for election of collective leadership who is a small group who chooses the Gensec.
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Purge of the Red Army
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Mikhail Gorbachev
43. Owner of Production/ Seller of time (laborer)
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Great purges (1936-1938)
Brest-Litovsk
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
44. Military leader-wanted to take military control of Rus and get out of war. 'Train accident' by workers party.
Kornilov Affair
Collectivization
On Party Unity
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
45. Brezhnev main party representation - were in central committee.
Trust in Cadres
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
Mikhail Gorbachev
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
46. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Nikolai Bukharin
Mikhail Gorbachev
47. Nobel Anarchist- Believed peasants (freed serfs) could overthrow Russian Empire.
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Mikhail Bakunin
Nikolai Chernychevsky
NEP (New Economic Policy)
48. A group of factory workers that set up legislature/ a massive strike led by Leon Trotsky.
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
five year plans
Lev Kamenev
General Secretary
49. Lenins return from exile in germany - gives speech to the people- take charge and be a socialist.
April Theses
Kulaks
Leo Tolstoy
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
50. Secret police force created by Bolsheviks - became the KGB.
Cheka
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Bureaucratic Centralism