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provisional government
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a temporary government set up pending permanent arrangements
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nationalization
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policy that brought all major industries under state control
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dictatorship of the proletariat
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control of the state by the working class in the former U.S.S.R.
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collectivization
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a system of farming in which the government owned the land and used peasants to farm it
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kulak
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the most prosperous peasants
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purge
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to remove
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autocracy
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a government in which one person rules with unlimited authority
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emancipation
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freeing
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zemstvo
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locally elected assemblies that took charge of provincial matters. (schools & healthcare)
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russification
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policy designed as an attempt to unite the empire's provinces, but instead became an official policy of intolerance & persecution of non-russian peoples.
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pogroms
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organized massacres of a minority group
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soviet
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workers councils
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duma
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legislature
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Tsar Nicholas II
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-took over Russian rule in 1894
-rigid defense of the autocracy, but -lacked strong will -easily influenced, esp. by wife Alexandra -announced the election of the duma, then closed it down in 1916 -issued the October Manifesto -extremely unpopular to the Russian people -influenced by Grigori Rasputin |
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Grigori Rasputin
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-"disreputable" monk who had alleged healing powers that could cure Tsar Nicholas II's son, Alexis' "incurable blood disease," hemophilia
-took 3 tries to kill him -relied advice for Tsar Nicholas II, which worried the Russian people |
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Alexander Kerensky
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-moderate socialist
-served as provisional gvt's minister, then as its prime minister -belonged to the executive committee of the Petrograd Soviet |
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Vladimir Lenin
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-Bolshevik leader, urged the people to make plans to topple the provisional government from power
-dedicated his life to promoting a revolution from his past life -arrested for his activities by Russian Gvt. and exiled to Siberia in 1895 -wrote Revolutionary Articles, Returned tp Russia after hearing of the March 1917 Revolution. -"Peace, Land, and Bread." : promised the Russian people that Russia would withdraw from the war, peasants would be given land, and everyone would have enough to eat. -Thought that the soviets should become the nation's only government. ("All Power to the Soviets") -announced the NEP: New Economic Policy -new constitution stated that the USSR was a socialist state -introduced the war communism |
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Leon Trotsky
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-Communist Leader who organized the Red Army to defend the Communist State
-restored disciplie to Russian military ranks, fostered loyalty to communism by teaching illiterate soldiers to read and write -main contender for Lenin's position after death. Lost to Joseph Stalin and was exiled to Siberia and expelled from the Soviet Union. |
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Joseph Stalin
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-Beat Trotsky for Lenin's position
-ended NEP and announced the first of the Five Year Plan -established one of the most brutal dictatorships the world has ever seen |
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nihilist
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"nothing"
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