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14 Cards in this Set
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Communist party newspaper; name means "Truth"
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Pravda
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the only high-ranking women to serve in Lenin's govt
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Alexandra Kollontai
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Jewish poet who was tortured and imprisoned for criticizing Stalin
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Osip Mandelstam
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one of Russia's great poets who was forced to write in secret
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Anna Akhmatova
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Soviet writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature; wrote And Quiet Flows the Don
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Mikhail Sholokhov
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a form of govt in which a one-party dictatorship regulates all parts of citizens' lives
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totalitarian state
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the belief that there is no god
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atheism
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a kind of art showing Soviet life in a positive light
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socialist realism
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terror tactics, propaganda, and war against religion were all methods Stalin use to create what?
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a totalitarian state
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Who became the new elite in Russia?
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The Communist Party
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How did the Soviet government make sure that most writers and artists conformed to the style of socialist realism?
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censorship and persecution
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The differences between the two were: in communism, 1) women were given equality and 2) new education opportunities were available. The similarities were: 1) the social order, despite different categories, was almost identical and 2) the standard of living was very poor in both
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Life under Stalin vs. under the Czars
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What was the name for art that only showed Soviet life in a positive light?
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Socialist realist art
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Who had the best apartments, could shop in special stores with the best products, and wore good shoes!
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The Comunist party, aka "the elite"
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