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






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






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






5. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin






6. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine






17. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.






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






19. People/Populist movement






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. The result of losing Bethlehem to France - O.F.E.A vs. Russia






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






31. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.






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






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