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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union

Subjects : dsst, history
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1. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.






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

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






4. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.






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






6. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin






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






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






9. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine






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






11. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. People/Populist movement






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






22. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.






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






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






25. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.






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






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






28. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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