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18 Cards in this Set
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Who are the reds?
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Marxist Communists
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Who are the whites?
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Anticommunists who supported a parliamentary style government
-supported by Russia's allies in WWI |
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"red Terror"
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Whites arrested, tried, and executed
-Lenin's secret police killed 200,000 oponents |
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War Communism
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A politidcal Economic system emerged from the Civil War
-use of harsh tactics |
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October Manifesto
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Called for the formation of Russia's first parliament, the imperial Duma.
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What happened in March 1917?
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March Revolution
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March Revolution
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caused bc:the defeats of the war, the discontent of the people, and the weakness of the czarist autocracy.
-Strike by woman textile workers -led to city-wide work stoppage -riots broke out over shortages of food and fuel -soldiers joined the rebellion siding with workers -unplanned |
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What happened in November, 1917?
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the Bolshevik Revolution
-Russians seized power bc PG lost support of army, Lenin=strong leader. |
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The Bolshevik Revolution(russian revolution)
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Lenin's supporters, led by Leon Trotsky, seized gov't buildings in Petrograd and arrested the members of the Provisional Gov't.
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the Duma
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Russia's first parliament
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The Provisional Government
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Gov't set up after the czar's fall.
-led by Alexander Kerensky -represented educated Russians who had adopted liberal, democratic ideas from the West. -Kerensky wanted to continue war against Germany and set up a Western-style parliamentary gov't. |
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Soviet
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representative council to lead the strikers after Nicholas II refused to give reforms
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Bolsheviks
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Lenin and his followers
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Lenin
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devoted his life to overthrowing Czarist rule and setting up a socialist state.
-leader of the Marxist Revolutionaries |
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Bolshevik leaders signed this treaty to accept German terms for peace, since they were defenseless.
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Nicholas II
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became Czar in 1894
-member of the Romanov family -wanted to make Russia a respecetd world power -russian autocracy |
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Bloody Sunday 1905
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Workers of St. Petersburg marched unarmed to the royal palace to ask Nicholas II for reforms.
-palace gaurds opened fire at the crowd -killed/wounded hundreds -incident sparked widespread strikes -caused Soviet to form |
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Leon trotsky
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organized military take over
-leader of the Bolshevik Revolution |
