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28 Cards in this Set
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DUMA
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Legislative body
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Autocratic
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Ruler having unlimited power
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Obshchina or Commune
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Rural community where land is owned collectively
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Nicholas II
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Autocratic ruler, would later prove to be an ineffective leader, had massive personal wealth, backed by an army of 1 million and Okhrana. Had political parties banned, the press censored, and critics thrown in prison or exiled.
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Okhrana
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Secret police of Russia (Nicholas)
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Russo-Japanese War
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Russia's naval forces were nearly destroyed and Japan took its place as an imperial power as result. Russian economy took a major blow, Nicholas II became unpopular.
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Czarina Alexandra
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Left to govern Russia while Czar was at Eastern Front during WW1, distrusted because she was German and close to Rasputin
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Grigori Rasputin
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Illiterate Serbian peasant who demonstrated mysterious powers, not a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, convinced people he was sent by God to save Russia, five men assassinated him in order to restore faith in the Romanov family.
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Vladimir Lenin
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Adopted the name "Lenin" when became a revolutionary. Excelled at school, admired Marx's writings, protested against the monarchy. Arrested for spreading socialist ideas amongst factory workers. Re-emerged in WW1.
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Joseph Stalin
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Premier of the Soviet Union, general secretary of communist party, commissar of defense.
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Leon Trotsky
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Lenin's second in command during the revolution, commissar for foreign affairs, commander of the red army, leader of the left opposition. See "Trotskyism". Stalin wanted control and engaged in a power struggle with Trotsky after Lenin's death. Trotsky lost and was stripped of party membership in addition to being exiled
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Prince Felix Yussoupov
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Invited Rasputin to eat dinner, poisoned cakes and did everything to murder him. (Poisoning, shooting, clubbing, stabbing, etc)
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Pyotr Stolypin
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Goals: repress the revolutionary activity, introduce the living conditions of the peasants, create a stable Prussia with an efficient government and military
Outcome: reduction in activities of the revolutionaries, richer kulaks (peasant farmers who pledged their loyalty to the Tsar), cities had more food and better living conditions, conditions for some workers improved, revolutionaries like Lenin were forced to adopt new strategies to gain support for their cause |
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Soviet
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Councils of workers and soldiers
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Bolsheviks/Communists
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Elite group under the Russian Socialist society
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Socialism
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Society controls and distributes wealth/property. Wanted to end the private ownership of industry. Wanted a clean change, no workers revolution.
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Leninism
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Elite group (Bolsheviks) will overthrow the government through the bloodiest means necessary and set up a dictatorship of the proletariat (masses)
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Marxism
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Father philosophy: working class will overthrow the rich capitalists and create an egalitarian society
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Trotskyism
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Permanent worldwide revolution under the USSR's leadership
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Adbdicate
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Step down
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Command Economy
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Economy activity brought under the control and direction of the government
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War Communism
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Communists took over banks, mines, factories, farms, and went against their earlier reforms
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Totalitarian State
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Final outcome of the revolution, when the state has absolute power over the people
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Socialist Realism
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The art at the end of the revolution, designed to serve the purpose of the state
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Checka/KGB
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Secret police of the Bolsheviks (of Lenin/Stalin), KGB was the final form of Russia's secret police
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The Great Purge
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Russia's second red terror
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Gulags
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System of forced labor camps
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Supreme Soviet
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The USSR's government after the monarchy and the provisional government.
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