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19 Cards in this Set
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Proletariat class |
factory and railroad workers. Miners |
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Marxism |
Everyone is equal |
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Gregory Rasputin |
Illiterate monk selected to be primary advisor by Tsarina Alexandra. Was soon murdered by russian nobles |
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Alexander Kerensky |
Led the Provisional government. |
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Provisional government |
Temporary government established by Alexander Kerensky. Made up of middle class liberals. Drafted a constitution that dictated how the county would be run post war. |
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Soviets |
Councils made up of workers and soldiers of the middle class |
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Bolsheviks
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radicals. Took charge of the soviet councils. Led by Vladimir Lenin. Group of socialists |
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Vladimir Lenin |
Aggressive marxist leader. Leader of the Bolsheviks. |
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Socialism |
everyone should share the same rights and everything |
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Mensheviks |
Moderate socialists. Go slowly. |
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Trostky |
Marxist Revolutionary figure |
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Kremlin |
Congress buildings in moscow |
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Hammer and sickle |
Symbolizes the union coming together with the peasants |
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Cheka |
Secret police who executed whoever spoke against the revolution. |
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Gulags |
Prisoner camps |
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Commissars |
People who teach why communists and Lenin is good |
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USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Collection of councils that believe in socialism. Individual republics. |
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Supreme Soviet |
elected legislature like the U.S. congress. |
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Stalin |
made in steel |
