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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union

Subjects : dsst, history
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1. Lenins return from exile in germany - gives speech to the people- take charge and be a socialist.






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






3. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine






4. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.






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






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

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






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






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






10. People/Populist movement






11. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals






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






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






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






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






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






17. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






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






19. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.






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






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






41. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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