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18 Cards in this Set
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1914 |
Russia fights with France and Great Britain |
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1917 |
People start to rebel against governement in cities such as St Petersburg. Tsar orders to fire the people. They refused |
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Romanovs |
Ruling family in Russia for 300 years |
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1917 |
Tsar Nicholas II abdicates on 16 March. He is replaced by a provisional government |
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Revolution |
Illegal protest with violence against the leader |
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Lenin |
Revolutionary communist leader from the Bolsheviks Party |
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Bolsheviks believings |
*Everyone should be equal ** Peasants should have share of the land *** Workers should own a share of the factory they worked in **** WW1 should be ended immediately |
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Storming of the Wintet Palace 25 October 1917 |
Famous painting that showed how the Bolsheviks seized power in the Winter Palace |
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1918 |
Romanovs family is executed in Ekaterinburg |
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Communist in Russia |
* Women were declared equal to men ** Peasants who had surplus of grain forced to give governement *** Factories taken away from the owners and under control Workers committes **** 48h maximum week ***** Rich people needed to share their houses, money, wealth... |
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Treaty of Brest Litousk March 1918 |
34% of Russia s population 32% of Russia s agriculture land 54% of Russia s factories 89% of Russia s coal-mines *ALL TO GERMANY |
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Joseph Stalin |
The one who replaced Lenin. The one who start converting the Soviet Union into a fully socialist/communist state |
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Meaning of Stalin |
Man of Steel |
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Factories |
Oil, Iron and Coal started to increase |
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Pavlik Morozov |
Russian kid that betrayed his father saying to the police he was criticising Stalin. There is a statue in his "honor" |
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Eastern Europe |
This part was Communist |
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Western Europe |
This part was Capitalist |
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Iron Curtain |
The imaginary line that divides Europe |
