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