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42 Cards in this Set
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Czar + Czarina
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Nick + Alex
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advisor killed for being too strong
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Gregory Rasputin
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radical socialists
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Bolsheviks
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Lenin's lackey
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Leon Trotsky
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army for Communists
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Red Army
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army for Czar
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Whites
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secret police
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Cheka
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workers
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proletariat
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council of workers and soldiers
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soviet
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Communist watchdogs
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commissars
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March Revolution-causes?
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backward nation, poverty, new middle class, corrupt bureaucracy, bad courts, failures in the world war
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Lenin adapted Marx--how?
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elite group to lead; no gradual changes
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How did Bolsheviks prevail?
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Russia's whupped army couldn't stop them
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Civil war enemies?
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communists vs. czar lovers; fringe battles
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Lenin, pro or con war communism?
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Pro! Lenin: circumstances justify any actions!
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Civil war, causes? Effects?
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Bosheviks = new tyrants. War = ruined country, poverty, poor economy.
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new state name
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USSR
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Lenin's econ plan
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NEP
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Stalin executes party leaders
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Great Purge
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world communist helpers
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Comintern
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govt bigwigs make decisions for econ
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command economy
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large farms, peasant groups
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collectives
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wealthy peasant
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kulak
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Lenin's compromise of communism?
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some cap'ist features to help the people like him, better econ
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Five year plans?
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build industry, transportation, farms, but things still sucked
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Great Purge?
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Stalin = paranoid --> dead leaders --> fear + no leaders for war
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USSR vs. West
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propaganda vs. capitalism made West suspicious
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5 year plans, industry vs. agriculture.
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industry up, agriculture down. 'Cause people hated it.
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command econ--diff from cap'ism?
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govt owned everything. cap'ism = private owners, free market.
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Communist paper
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Pravda
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woman in USSR govt
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Alexandra Kollontai
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persecuted Jewish poet
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Osip Mandelstam
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great poet in secret
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Anna Akhmatova
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Nobel Prize-winner
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Mikhail Sholokhov
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dictatorship controlling everything
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totalitarian state
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no god
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atheism
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art praising USSR
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socialist realism
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total'ian state--how done?
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terror tactics, propaganda, war against religion
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new elite? privileges?
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communists. had better stuff!
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USSR controlled art-how?
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censorship, persecution
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life under Stalin vs. Czar
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differences 1) women equal 2) education. similarities: 1) sim. social order 2) poverty
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socialist realism = "smiling face"?
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showed only good stuff
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