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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union

Subjects : dsst, history
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1. State control of key industry ex. electrical - road - military.






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






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






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






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






6. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.






7. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.






8. The act of hanging the revolutionaries.






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






10. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Narodnichestvo movement/ Splits up into 3 fractions






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.






32. People/Populist movement






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






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






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






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






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






38. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Stalin - Gensec of Bolsheviks






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






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






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






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