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17 Cards in this Set
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Goal of the five year plan |
Improve development of Soviet Unions economy |
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Command economy |
A system where government makes all economic decisions |
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What did five year plan want to increase |
Steel, oil, coal & electricity |
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Methods Stalin used during the Great Purge |
- Directed to eliminate anyone who threatened his power - labor camps -questioned military members |
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Stalins ideas towards religion |
-made them believe it was superstation -persecution -labor camps -destroyed places of worship -eliminated their personal rights and freedom in favor in power of the sate |
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How was Stalin able to achieve total control of the population |
-advanced technology -surveillance - violence |
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How was Lenin and Bolshevik’s view different from Marxists |
Lenin and Bolshevik’s: wanted small group of committed revolutionaries Marxists: broad base support of people |
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Causes of revolution of 1905 |
1) Japan attacks land and break agreement with Russia 2)Bloody Sunday killing many people |
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Outcome of Revolution of 1905 |
News of repeated losses led to a revolt during war |
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How Russia is governed after tsar steps down |
Provisional government: temporary form of government. Although Soviets typically had more influence on government |
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Why provisional gov became unpopular |
-not able to function without support of the people -pedants wanted more land -city workers became more radical |
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How Bolshevik’s took over |
People started rallying “all power to the soviets” in major Russian cities |
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Immediate reform Lenin made after the Bolshevik takeover |
-distributed farm land among peasants - gave factory control to workers -sent aristocrats to gulags (camps) -signed treaty with Germany giving them land (angered Russians) |
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Why Britain, France, and US supported White forces |
-Supports return of czar -wanted democratic gov -socail at who opposed Lenins socialism |
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War communism |
-state took over private businesses -let managers run factories (control their people) -red guards stole extra grain -currency becomes worthless -city workers support Bolsheviks -peasants are angry but can’t speak out |
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Why Bolshevik’s (red army) won Civil War |
-controlled major cities -used violence -all problems could be blamed on the “whites” |
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How did NEP differ from Pure Communism |
NEP:small scale version of communism, stands for New Economic Policy -allows them to sell extra crops -small factories can be owned privately |
