Russian Revolution

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Socialist Labor Movements

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Response of the labor unions against the repression and poor labor conditions - demanding better working conditions, fairer wages, etc.

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The March/February Revolution

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the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar) begins on this day in 1917, when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) (the first phase of the more sweeping Russian Revolution of 1917—was Russia’s disastrous involvement in World War I)

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The November/October Revolution

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By November 1917, the Provisional Government was in shambles. The German-funded Bolshevik party had built up an efficient party organization, a brilliant propaganda machine, and a powerful private army (the Red Guards). The Provisional Government was unable to stop Lenin, and the 'November Revolution' was less of a revolution than a coup d'état.

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The Duma

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Duma, Russian in full Gosudarstvennaya Duma (“State Assembly”), elected legislative body that, along with the State Council, constituted the imperial Russian legislature from 1906 until its dissolution at the time of the March 1917 Revolution

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Soviets

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an elected local, district, or national council in the former Soviet Union and/or a citizen of the former Soviet Union.

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Provisional Government

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Provisional government is an emergency or interim government set up to manage a political transition, generally in the cases of new nations, or following the collapse of the previous governing regime.

The government was initially composed of the Kadet coalition led by Prince Georgy Lvov, which was replaced by the Socialist coalition led by Alexander Kerensky.

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)

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On March 3, 1918, in the city of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern-day Belarus near the Polish border, Russia signed a treaty with the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria) ending its participation in World War I (1914-18).

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Red and White Armies

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The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favoring monarchism, capitalism and alternative forms of socialism, each with democratic and antidemocratic variants.

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Bolsheviks

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Bolshevik, member of a wing of theRussian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government inRussia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power.

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Mensheviks

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Meaning "minority" in Russian, the party was formed in 1903 from a split in the The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (R.S.D.L.P), which created the Bolsheviki and Mensheviki parties.During the 1905-07 revolution the Mensheviks opposed the working class and peasantry who were in open revolt.

They believed that Socialism should only be achieved firstly through a bourgeois revolution

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War Communism

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War Communism was the name given to the economic system that existed in Russia from 1918 to 1921. War Communism was introduced by Lenin to combat the economic problems brought on by the civil warin Russia. It was a combination of emergency measures and socialist dogma.

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The Cheka

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The CHEKA (sometimes called VeCHEKA) was the much feared Bolshevik secret police – though to most Russians the CHEKA was no secret. The CHEKA was formed in the wake of the October 1917 revolution, established as a small agency to investigate and deal with threats to the new regimessianrevolution/cheka/#sthash.oxM1gxvo.dpuf

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

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In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation (divided in 1936 into the Georgian, Azerbaijan, and Armenian republics).

Also known as the Soviet Union, the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.

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The Five Year Plan

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Joseph Stalin, in 1928, launched the first Five-Year Plan; it was designed to industrialize the USSR in the shortest possible time and, in the process, to expedite the collectivization of farms.

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Collectivization

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Collectivization, policy adopted by the Soviet government, pursued most intensively between 1929 and 1933, to transform traditional agriculture in the Soviet Union and to reduce the economic power of the kulaks (prosperous peasants). Under collectivization the peasantry were forced to give up their individual farms and join large collective farms (kolkhozy).

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New Economic Policy

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The NEP represented a more capitalism-oriented economic policy, deemed necessary after the Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1922, to foster the economy of the country, which was almost ruined. The complete nationalization of industry, established during the period of War Communism, was partially revoked and a system of mixed economy was introduced, which allowed private individuals to own small enterprises, while the state continued to control banks, foreign trade, and large industries.

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Rasputin

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http://www.britannica.com/biography/Grigory-Yefimovich-Rasputin

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Vladimir Ulianov Lenin

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http://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Ilich-Lenin

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Lenin Trotsky

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http://www.britannica.com/biography/Leon-Trotsky

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Tsar Nicholas II

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http://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicholas-II-tsar-of-Russia

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Tsarina Alexandra

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http://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexandra-empress-consort-of-Russia

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Joseph Stalin

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http://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Stalin