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43 Cards in this Set
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One way The Russian Revolution of 1917 wasn't similar to the French Revolution of 1789
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It was started by professional revolutionaries
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The Russian economy before 1914 except didn't
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have industry that was typically dispersed in small factories
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Enterprising and wealthy minority of the peasantry
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kulaks
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Russia's pre-1917 revolutionary intelligentsia
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populists
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Lenin and the Bolsheviks difference from the Mensheviks
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Lenin was an elitist while the Mensheviks wanted a larger and more open party.
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Distinctive trait of Leninism
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the idea that the party had to play a central role in the revolution
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Lenin's belief
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big business export surplus capital to underdeveloped areas in the search for greater profits
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The "Bloody Sunday"
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the 1905 Russian Revolution
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October Manifesto
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promised the Russian people a constitution with civil liberties and a parliament
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The history of the four Russian Dumas
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indicated that the government could manipulate the electoral process
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Stolypin's reform policy didn't...
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end the problem of land shortages and land hunger
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A soviet in the Russian Revolution
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a council of workers and soldiers
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All of the following reasons help to explain the fall of the tsar in February 1917 except
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Bolshevik revolutionary activity in St. Petersburg.
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The beginning of the February Revolution of 1917
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when food riots broke out in Petrograd
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The Russian Provisional Government
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was chosen by an executive committee of the Duma
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Order No. 1 issued by the Petrograd Soviet
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entrusted the control of the army to elected committees
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Kerensky's Provisional Government wasn't short lived because it...
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failed to continue the war effort
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The institution whose approval Lenin used to gain a modicum of legitimacy for his seizure of power in October 1917 was...
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the Congress of Soviets
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With the formation of the U.S.S.R., the Soviet authorities...
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concentrated all political and economic authority in the central government
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One new right for women that wasn't revoked was...
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they began to receive more education.
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Precedents for the creation of the carefully planned Soviet economy
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Engel's ideas
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Stalin's First Five-Year Plan
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destroyed the kulak class
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Consequences of Stalin's Five-Year Plans
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agricultural production doubled
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Stalin's purges in the 1930s
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destroyed any possible rivals from the Old Bolsheviks
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Lenin's Twenty-One Points didn't demand that national parties...
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should only use legal channels and methods
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A postwar advance of political democracy wasn't...
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French and Italian women received the right to vote in 1920
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Economic conditions after World War I
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Both victors and vanquished suffered a sharp economic depression
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The chief exception to democratic rule
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Italy
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The middle class wasn't small in...
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Austria and Bohemia
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The reform of landownership had the least success in...
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Poland and Hungary
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The Eastern European land reform did not solve basic economic problems because...
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peasant owners lacked capital and knowledge of markets
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Germany and of the new republic was mainly in the hands of the... (1918)
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Social Democrats
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German Revolution of 1918 failed to take a radical turn because...
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Social Democrats who took power were revisionist Marxists and essentially conservative
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Who attempted to overthrow the German government and unleash a left-wing revolution?
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the Spartacists
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The Weimar Republic did not have...
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nationalized steel and coal industries
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The Dawes Plan of 1924
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reduced German reparations payments
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The result of the Locarno treaties
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Germany guaranteed the borders of France and Belgium
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The 1928 Kellogg-Briand treaty
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committed 65 nations to renounce war as an instrument of national policy
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The Great Depression did not begin because of...
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Germany refusing to pay its reparations, triggering several bank failures, and contributing to the 1929 stock market crash
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The Great Depression brought...
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a strong movement toward economic nationalism
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The United States aggravated the worldwide depression by...
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creating an imperial tariff union
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Authors of realist literature
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believed that the Depression was the result of the flaws of a capitalist system
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The coutnry with the most phenomenal economic expansion
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the U.S.
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