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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union
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1. Two revolutionary brothers-Hanged for assassination Alexander II/ Lenin
Perestroika
Kornilov Affair
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
2. Restructure in USSR by Gorbachev - renounces true socialism by Lenin.
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Perestroika
Socialist Revolutionary Party
five year plans
3. Intelligentsia went to the peasants to discuss their revolution plans. Plan backfires and intelligentsia members get arrested.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Cheka
Leo Tolstoy
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
4. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Collectivization
Crimean War 1853-1856
Stollypin
5. People/Populist movement
Kadets/Octoberists
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Lenin
Socialism in one Country
6. Socialism should stay in Russia and not be a peoples movement - only soviet.
Socialism in one Country
Bureaucratic Centralism
Collectivization
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
7. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.
Desalinization
Mikhail Bakunin
Alexander Herzen
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
8. Nobel Anarchist- Believed peasants (freed serfs) could overthrow Russian Empire.
Alexander Herzen
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Mikhail Bakunin
Slavophiles
9. The result of losing Bethlehem to France - O.F.E.A vs. Russia
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Crimean War 1853-1856
Demokratizatsiya
10. The government that is set up after the fall of the Romanov Dynasty and previsionary government.
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11. Founded in Minsk -1893. Meeting in 1903 splints party into 2 groups. Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Anarchism
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
12. Wrote 'War & Peace' - believed in peaceful protest.
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
Leo Tolstoy
April Theses
13. Socialist/prime minister who leads the previsionary government.
New Thinking
Great purges (1936-1938)
Alexander Kerensky
On Party Unity
14. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin
Leon Trotsky
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Kulaks
Nikolai Bukharin
15. Openest in society - people were allowed to criticize the government.
Demokratizatsiya
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Glasnost
16. Agreement to end war with germany gave up ukraine - poland - baltic states.
Alexander Kerensky
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Mikhail Gorbachev
Brest-Litovsk
17. Majority/Minority - 24% to 3% of congress.
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Zastoi
Alexander Kerensky
18. Losing war for Rus. enemy had major naval advantage that destroyed Rus. Navy. Ended by US treaty.
Lenin
Demokratizatsiya
General Secretary
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
19. Female Russia medic who helped out during Crimean War.
Darya Sevastopolskaya
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Brest-Litovsk
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
20. Military leader-wanted to take military control of Rus and get out of war. 'Train accident' by workers party.
April Theses
Kornilov Affair
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Nikolai Bukharin
21. Secret police force created by Bolsheviks - became the KGB.
April Theses
Cheka
War Communism
Bureaucratic Centralism
22. Reduce nuclear weapons - treaty with USA - stop worrying about other states policy
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
New Thinking
23. A group of factory workers that set up legislature/ a massive strike led by Leon Trotsky.
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
Perestroika
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Lenin
24. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals
Collectivization
Great purges (1936-1938)
Westernizers
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
25. Krushnev's opinion on Stalin at the 20th party congress.
Lev Kamenev
Perestroika
Alexander Herzen
Desalinization
26. Educated nobel group - were called radicals-knew Russia and western thinking.
Intelligentsia
Glasnost
Westernizers
War Communism
27. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.
Kulaks
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Alexander Herzen
28. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks
Stollypin
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Demokratizatsiya
29. Police Agent who led workers to red square to ask for a raise/ The mass killing of workers at red square by guards.
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Desalinization
Brest-Litovsk
NEP (New Economic Policy)
30. State owned land to family/ is the basis for the rapid heavy industrialization. part of the five year plan.
Stollypin
Intelligentsia
Collectivization
Brest-Litovsk
31. Focused on rapid heavy industrialization in a command economy. issued by stalin
Intelligentsia
five year plans
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Nikolai Bukharin
32. State control of key industry ex. electrical - road - military.
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Leo Tolstoy
Crimean War 1853-1856
33. The 40year program-freed Serfs had to payback money to nobles through the state
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Redemptive Dues
Boris Yeltsin
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
34. A group of Intelligentsia-conservatives who wanted to keep Russia the way it has been.
Kadets/Octoberists
Westernizers
Slavophiles
Stollypin
35. Owner of Production/ Seller of time (laborer)
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Stollypin
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
36. Public elections for congress of USSR - allows for more parties in USSR.
Bureaucratic Centralism
Zastoi
Demokratizatsiya
Nikolai Chernychevsky
37. Government buying food from peasants at a fixed price/ taking over of industry by state.
War Communism
Brest-Litovsk
Kornilov Affair
Socialist Revolutionary Party
38. Stalins economical scape goats/ rich peasants who could hire work
Kulaks
Nikolai Chernychevsky
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
39. Liberal Economist- exiled to Siberia for 20 years.
Nikolai Chernychevsky
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
Kulaks
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
40. Minimization of state - sub-group of Socialism.
On Party Unity
Anarchism
Kulaks
Darya Sevastopolskaya
41. Focused on peasantry led revolution w/peasants. 41% of congress.
Kadets/Octoberists
Leon Trotsky
Glasnost
Socialist Revolutionary Party
42. Develop Democratic Centralism- no organized group to voice opinions. Eliminated war communism with NEP.
Bureaucratic Centralism
Crimean War 1853-1856
On Party Unity
five year plans
43. Stagnation during 80's - economically and in politburo
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Alexander Kerensky
Zastoi
Leon Trotsky
44. One of Alexander II action - started Redemptive Dues and changed the economy towards more industrial.
Lenin
Lev Kamenev
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Redemptive Dues
45. Take Rus out of war/ food for everyone/ split up land of nobility . Don't listen to Provision government.
Slavophiles
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
Chernobyl
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
46. One of the members of Bosheviks - head of Moscow
Zastoi
Bureaucratic Centralism
Lev Kamenev
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
47. Were serfs stayed under strict conditions - peasant communities.
Nikolai Bukharin
Mikhail Bakunin
Perestroika
Obshchina
48. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.
Alexander Herzen
General Secretary
Stollypin
Alexander Kerensky
49. Lenins return from exile in germany - gives speech to the people- take charge and be a socialist.
April Theses
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Lenin
Zastoi
50. Controlled russian legislature - Was President of Russia -lead coup against Gorbachev
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
Kulaks
Boris Yeltsin
five year plans