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Russification |
to make something russian in quality or charater |
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bloody sunday |
the name given to the events on Sunday 22 january 1905 in st. petersburg where unarmed demonstrators leg by father gapon were fired upon by soliders of the imperial guard |
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calpitalist |
owners of the means of creating wealth, for example, a landowner or a factory owner |
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Bolsheviks |
a group formed after the spilt of the social democratic party in 1903. this group was lead by lenin. they believed that a small party of revolutionists should sieze power when the time was right. |
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mensheviks |
a group formed after the spilt of the social democratic party in 1903. they believed that the party should be a mass organization which all workers could join and which would eventually take power. they were led by |
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socialist revolutionaries |
a political party formed in 1901. Its members believed in a general revolutionary movement which would unite all of the people who were suffering under the tsar. |
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socialist democrats |
someone that is in the social democratic party that was founded in 1895. They followed the teachings of Karl Marx. They believed that a revolution would be started by the workers concentrated in large cities. |
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liberals |
a group of people who thought it was time that the people had an oppertunity to run the country though a parliment. |
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communist |
the new names for the blosheviks, adopted by lenin in 1918 |
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nep |
stands for the new economic policy. it was proposed by lenin. |
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red army |
the bolshviks or communists |
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provisional government |
the temporary govenment after the tsar had been thrown out |
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reds/whites |
reds: the bolsheviks whites: the mensheviks, the tsarists, the nobles, the middle class, the the socialist revolutionaries |
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whites |
all the opponents to the bolshevik- the tsarist, nobles, middle-class, and anyone who was not a bloshvik |
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war communism |
an economic system that existed in russia from 1918 to 1921. it was introduced by lenin to combat the economic problems brought on by the civil war in russia. |
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red terror |
a campaign of mass killings and tortues conducted by the bolshviks after they seized power in petrograd and moscow in 1917. |
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duma |
the russian parliment established by nicholas ii after the 1905 revolution. |
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tsar nicholas ii |
the last tsar of russia under romanov rule |
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lenin |
formed the marxist group and was the leader of the bolshviks |
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trotsky |
one of the founders of the red army |
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tsarina alexandria |
wife of the tsar |
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rasputin |
a man who came from a poor family who made his way up to the tsar and his family with his alleged healing powers |
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when was the first revolution? |
1905 |
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when was the year of crisis? |
1921 |
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what year did lenin die? |
1924 |
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second revolution part 1? |
march 1917 |
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second revolution part 2? |
november 1917 |
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when was the russian civil war? |
1918-1921 |
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when was nep? |
1921-1924 |
