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23 Cards in this Set
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Czar and Czarina of Russia before the revolution
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Nicholas and Alexandra
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advisor to Alexandra, who was assasinated for gaining too much sway over the govt
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Gregory Rasputin
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radical socialist group who took over the Russian govt
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Bolsheviks
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a Marxist revolutionary, Lenin's right hand man
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Leon Trotsky
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name given to the Communist army during the Russian Civil War
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Red Army
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name of the counter revolutionaries who remained loyal to the czar
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Whites
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secret police force in the Red Army
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Cheka
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the working class
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proletariat
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council of workers and soldiers
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soviet
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Communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty
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commissars
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Backward nation, poverty, growing middle classes with industrialization, corrupt bureaucracy, bad courts, failures in the world war were the causes of what?
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The March Revolution
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How did Lenin adapt Marx to conditions in Russia?
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He created a dctatorship of the proletariat
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Why were the Bolsheviks able to seize power in November 1917?
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the army was decimated from defeats in the war, so no one could stop them
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Describe the opposing forces in the Russian civil war.
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loyalists and regional national groups vs. the Communists (aka Bolsheviks, Reds).
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Did Lenin favor or oppose war communism?
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Lenin favored it.
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When Russians realized that the Bolsheviks were merely the newest tyrants ruling over them, this deception was the main cause of?
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The Civil War
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Because Russia did not have an urban proletariat, Lenin thought this would lead the Russian revolution.
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dictatorship of the proletariat
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Bolshevik means
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Majority
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The policy of taking over banks, mines, factories, and railroads, and having peasants deliver surplus food to cities and be drafted into factories and the military is know as
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War Communism
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How did he defend this position?
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he thought that circumstances were so inhumane that he was allowed to be just as inhumane to fight against them.
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About War Communism, who thought that circumstances were so inhumane that he was allowed to be just as inhumane to fight against them?
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Lenin
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Do you agree or disagree with War Communism?
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Agree: Russia was so F@!#%ed that anything that would make it stable again would be worth the price.
Disagree: things could have gotten better with gradual reform and no violence |
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What caused the people and national resources of Russia to be ruined, and the country was extremely unstable politically and economically?
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The Civil War
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