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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union

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1. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






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






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






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






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






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






18. People/Populist movement






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






32. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin






33. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.






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






35. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.






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






47. Were serfs stayed under strict conditions - peasant communities.






48. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine






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






50. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.