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DSST Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union
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1. Secret police force created by Bolsheviks - became the KGB.
Cheka
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Alexander Herzen
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
2. Restructure in USSR by Gorbachev - renounces true socialism by Lenin.
five year plans
Westernizers
Perestroika
Demokratizatsiya
3. Liberal Economist- exiled to Siberia for 20 years.
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Alexander Kerensky
Nikolai Bukharin
Alexander Herzen
4. Tsar Nicholas issued laws of liberal citizenship (duma) just like US bill of rights.
October Manifesto 1905
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
5. Socialism should stay in Russia and not be a peoples movement - only soviet.
Intelligentsia
Slavophiles
Socialism in one Country
Perestroika
6. A group of Intelligentsia-conservatives who wanted to keep Russia the way it has been.
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
Slavophiles
October Manifesto 1905
Alexander Kerensky
7. Were serfs stayed under strict conditions - peasant communities.
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Obshchina
General Secretary
Perestroika
8. Lenins return from exile in germany - gives speech to the people- take charge and be a socialist.
April Theses
Lenin
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Desalinization
9. Educated nobel group - were called radicals-knew Russia and western thinking.
Intelligentsia
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
10. The execution of the red army leaders. 90% of all generals were killed.
Trust in Cadres
Purge of the Red Army
Westernizers
Chernobyl
11. Founded in Minsk -1893. Meeting in 1903 splints party into 2 groups. Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Mikhail Gorbachev
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
12. A group of Intelligentsia-liberals
Westernizers
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Leo Tolstoy
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
13. Controlled russian legislature - Was President of Russia -lead coup against Gorbachev
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Nikolai Bukharin
Great purges (1936-1938)
Boris Yeltsin
14. Government buying food from peasants at a fixed price/ taking over of industry by state.
War Communism
Kulaks
Purge of the Red Army
Collectivization
15. 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and USSR. Secretly spilt up baltic states.
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Anarchism
On Party Unity
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
16. Public elections for congress of USSR - allows for more parties in USSR.
Lenin
Westernizers
Demokratizatsiya
Lev Kamenev
17. Female Russia medic who helped out during Crimean War.
Boris Yeltsin
Brest-Litovsk
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Glasnost
18. The result of losing Bethlehem to France - O.F.E.A vs. Russia
Kulaks
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
Glasnost
Crimean War 1853-1856
19. Started Marxist movement while in exile in Geneve/ one of the fractions of the Narodnichestvo Movement
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
five year plans
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
New Thinking
20. State owned land to family/ is the basis for the rapid heavy industrialization. part of the five year plan.
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
New Thinking
Collectivization
Bureaucratic Centralism
21. Agreement to end war with germany gave up ukraine - poland - baltic states.
Bureaucratic Centralism
Obshchina
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Brest-Litovsk
22. Openest in society - people were allowed to criticize the government.
George Plekhanov/Liberation of Labor
New Thinking
Glasnost
Darya Sevastopolskaya
23. A group of factory workers that set up legislature/ a massive strike led by Leon Trotsky.
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Socialism in one Country
Nikolai Bukharin
Soviet of Workers Deputies 1905 & 1917
24. Majority/Minority - 24% to 3% of congress.
Demokratizatsiya
Slavophiles
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
25. One of Alexander II action - started Redemptive Dues and changed the economy towards more industrial.
Stollypin
Mikhail Bakunin
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Brest-Litovsk
26. Nobel Anarchist- Believed peasants (freed serfs) could overthrow Russian Empire.
Intelligentsia
Kulaks
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Mikhail Bakunin
27. 'Soviets' come to party congress for election of collective leadership who is a small group who chooses the Gensec.
five year plans
Party Congress elects Central Committee elects Politburo
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
War Communism
28. Liberal party (democrats)/wanted constitutional monarchy.
Nikolai Chernychevsky
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Kadets/Octoberists
Mikhail Gorbachev
29. Focused on peasantry led revolution w/peasants. 41% of congress.
Darya Sevastopolskaya
Lenin
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
30. Worst nuclear disaster in history - meltdown in Ukraine
Brest-Litovsk
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Leo Tolstoy
Chernobyl
31. Take Rus out of war/ food for everyone/ split up land of nobility . Don't listen to Provision government.
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Anarchism
Kadets/Octoberists
Lev Kamenev
32. Economic theorist of NEP - executed by stalin
Leo Tolstoy
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Nikolai Bukharin
33. Stalins economical scape goats/ rich peasants who could hire work
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
On Party Unity
Kulaks
34. The execution of Russian Soviet Party members - formally old Bolsheviks.
Nikolai Chernychevsky
Demokratizatsiya
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Great purges (1936-1938)
35. The 40year program-freed Serfs had to payback money to nobles through the state
Redemptive Dues
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Nikolai Chernychevsky
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
36. Liberal Reformist-wanted representative democracy like England.
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Alexander Herzen
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
Glasnost
37. People/Populist movement
five year plans
Narodniki/Narodnichestvo
Perestroika
Lev Kamenev
38. General secretary of USSR - had 2 coups against his reformation
Slavophiles
Mikhail Gorbachev
Lev Kamenev
German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
39. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - studied the lives of the working class and founder of RSDWP.
Lenin
Council of People's Commissars (SOVNARKOM)
Boris Yeltsin
Father Gapon/Bloody Sunday
40. Krushnev's opinion on Stalin at the 20th party congress.
April Theses
Crimean War 1853-1856
Obshchina
Desalinization
41. Develop Democratic Centralism- no organized group to voice opinions. Eliminated war communism with NEP.
On Party Unity
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
General Secretary
42. Owner of Production/ Seller of time (laborer)
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Boris Yeltsin
43. One of the members of Bosheviks - head of Moscow
Chernobyl
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party
Lev Kamenev
Zastoi
44. Two revolutionary brothers-Hanged for assassination Alexander II/ Lenin
Darya Sevastopolskaya
1861 Emancipation of Serfs
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov/Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Leon Trotsky
45. The leader of the politburo/soviet union.
Lenin
Crimean War 1853-1856
General Secretary
Collectivization
46. Intelligentsia went to the peasants to discuss their revolution plans. Plan backfires and intelligentsia members get arrested.
Nikolai Bukharin
To the People Movement/Mad Summer of 1874
October Manifesto 1905
Land & Freedom/ 2nd Land & Freedom
47. Wrote 'War & Peace' - believed in peaceful protest.
Westernizers
Leo Tolstoy
Nikolai Bukharin
Anarchism
48. Reduce nuclear weapons - treaty with USA - stop worrying about other states policy
Peace - Bread - and Land/ Power to the soviets
New Thinking
Boris Yeltsin
General Secretary
49. The government that is set up after the fall of the Romanov Dynasty and previsionary government.
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50. Minimization of state - sub-group of Socialism.
Bourgeoise/Proletariat
Kulaks
Anarchism
Alexander Kerensky