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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union

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






2. People/Populist movement






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






4. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks






5. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.






6. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.






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






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






9. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.






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






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






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






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






14. Agreement to end war with germany gave up ukraine - poland - baltic states.






15. One of Alexander II action - started Redemptive Dues and changed the economy towards more industrial.






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






17. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals






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






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






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






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






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






23. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Liberal party (democrats)/wanted constitutional monarchy.






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






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






40. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.






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






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






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






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






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

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46. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






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






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






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






50. Lenins return from exile in germany - gives speech to the people- take charge and be a socialist.







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