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21 Cards in this Set
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czar who turned russia into a police state
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Alexander II
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under russian marxism, the group of workers who would rule the country
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proletariat
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radical marxism group willing to sacrafice everything for change
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Bolsheviks
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main leader of the bolshiviks
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lenin
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another name for the revolution of 1905 in st. petersburg
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bloody sunday
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alleged healer who Czarina Alexandria allowed to make decisions in Nicholas II's absence
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rasputin
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another word for temporary government
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provisional government
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in russia, local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soilders
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solviets
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Revolutionary leader who comanded the bolshevik red army
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leon trotsky
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new name for the bolsheviks after the revolution
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communist party
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limited production of consumer goods to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity
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five year plan
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seized over 25 million privately owned farms and combined them into large, government owned farms
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collective farm
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governmant takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life
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totalitarism
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stalin campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power
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great purge
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system in which government made all economic decisions
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command economy
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nationalist party
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kuomintang
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the first great leader of the kuomintang
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sun yixian
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3000 angry students gathered in the center of beijing in the tiananmen square snd exploded into a national movement
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may fourth movement
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assistant librian at beijing university a was amoung of the chinese comunist founders. later he will become china's grestest revolutionary leader
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Mao zedong
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after sun died in 1925 , formerly called chiang kai-shek, headed the kumintang
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jiang jieshi
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6000 mile long journey the communist took fleeing the nationalist
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long march
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