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17 Cards in this Set
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SLAVIC EUROPE
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Lands of central Europe and the Balkans
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RUSSIFICATION
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Imposing Russian culture on non- Russian peoples
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RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHY
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Northern latitudes- very cold during most of the year, mostly flat- no natural barriers to invasion or expansion, vast landscape- ????
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GREAT LEADERS OF ROMANOV DYNASTY
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Peter the Great (1682- 1725), Catherine the Great (1762- 1796), Alexander I (1801- 1825)
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POOR LEADERS OF ROMANOV DYNASTY
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Nicholas II (1894- 1917), Alexander III (1881- 1894)
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MENSHEVIKS
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The faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party that opposed subversion and advocated the nonviolent approach to democracy.
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BOLSHEVIKS
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The faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party that was led by Lenin and advocated a conspiratorial party to bring the czar down.
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BLOODY SUNDAY
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Peaceful march led in 1905 at the Winter Palace by unarmed workers who were slaughtered by the Russian army.
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FEBRUARY REVOLUTION
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The first stage in the Russian Revolution. Began with Bloody Sunday.
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STOLYPIN
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PM under Nicholas II who made agrarian reforms after the February revolution but who also sent thousands of revolutionaries and suspected terrorists to the gallows.
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PROLETARIAT
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Working class
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FAILURES OF NICHOLAS II
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Russian- Japanese navy failure, domestic political fractures between democrats and autocrats, WWI.
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OCTOBER REVOLUTION
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The final straw of the Russian revolution led by Lenin in November of 1917
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SOVIETS
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Elected governing councils
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WAR COMMUNISM
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The period after the rise of the Bolsheviks in which there was a civil war between the reds(Bolsheviks) and the whites (anti Bolsheviks)
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NEW ECONOMIC POLICY
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Economic measures imposed by Lenin in 1921, after the mutiny of Kronshtadt; allowed limited private ownership, involvement in foreign managers in industry, farming for profit and considerable literary and artistic freedom.
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STALINISM
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the epitome of totalitarianism
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