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34 Cards in this Set
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Tsar
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king
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Duma
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Russian congress
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Proletariats
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working class
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Romanovs
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Russian ruling family
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Nicholas II
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Tsar during WWI
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Alexandra
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Tsarina during WWI
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Alexis
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prince during WWI
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Hemophilia
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disease that causes intense bleeding from even a bruise
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Gregory Rasputin
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evil monk
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Neva River
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river Rasputin was drowned in
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March Revolution
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proletariats attack palace
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Bolsheviks
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political party in Russia
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Vladimir Lenin
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Bolshevik dicator of Russia
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Leon Trotsky
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Russian Bolshevik general who supported and was supported by Lenin
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"Peace, Land, and Bread"
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promises made by Lenin
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Red Guards
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people that stormed the palace during the March Revolution
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsik
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pact between Germany and Russia
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St. Petersburg
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origional capital of Russia
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Moscow
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communist capital of Russia
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Mensheviks
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capitalists
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Cheka
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secret police of the Bolsheviks
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Red Army
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army of communist Russia
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USSR
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communist countries of Russia
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NEP
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"new economic program" that failed to solve communist Russia's economic problems
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Joseph Stalin
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new dictator of Russia; made massive changes
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Siberia
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place where all prisoners are "exiled to"
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Five Year Plans
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three economic plans that never were completely carried out
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Command Economy
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government that makes all decisions and owns all buisnesses
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Collective
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large farm owned and operated by many peasants
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Kulaks
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wealthy peasants; upper middle class
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Great Purge
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paranoia of Stalin forced many powerful people to be executed
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"Show Trial"
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public trials in which people confessed to crimes they did not commit
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Totalitarian State
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a government dominated by one party and one person
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Atheism
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nonreligious
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