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Karl Marx
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German economist
Founder of Communism |
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Freidrich Engles
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WOrked with Karl Marx to develop Communsim
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Das Kapital
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book written by Karl Marx making communism
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Adam Smith
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Scotish economist
made free enterprise system |
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Aristocracy
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ruler with absolute power
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proletariat
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workers
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bourgeoisie
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urban middle class
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bolsheviks
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communists
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mensheviks
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socalists
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cheka
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lenins secerate police till 1923
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treaty of Breast-Litovsk
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treaty between Russia and germany
ended WW1 for Russia Russia gave 26% population, 27% farmland, 26% rail and 74% iron and coal |
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Comintern
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international communist movmenet
lenins idea on spreading communist revolutions across the world |
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Rasputin
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crazy monk during the time of the tsar who claimed to be able to save the tsars hemophiliac son.
took the goveremnt during WW1 |
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Tsarina Alexandria
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the wife of Tsar Nicholas
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Soviet
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council of workers
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March revolution
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Tsar nicholas was over thrown and the provisional goverment came in
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November revolution
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lenin took over the provisional goverment
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Provisional government
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temporary govemrent
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duma
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fake parliment
made by the Tsar afer the 1905 revolution attempt |
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Alexander Kerensky
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leader of the russian provisional goverement
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"Peace, bread, and Land"
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one of Lenin's slogans
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Leon Trotsky
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challanger of stalin for the leadership
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Show trials
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fake trails where innocent people conffessed guilt
under stalin |
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NKVD
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seacert police in 1934
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Stalin
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leader of the USSR after 1924
harsh totalatrian dictaor |
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Collectivization
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policy if stalins that all farms where to be nationalzed
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Purges
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the act of stalin murdering people within his goveremtn that he believed threatneded his power
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"Socialism in one country"
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stalins belif that the USSR should not get involved in international affairs
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First five year plan
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to triple the industrial output of the nation
1928-1932 |
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Second five year plan
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to increase heavy industry
double and triple 1932 levels 1933-1937 |
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third five year plan
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was supposed to be to increase the soft industries
had to cahnge to munition beacuse of ww2 1938- |
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Gulag
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labour camp during stalins regin in the 1930's
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April Thesis
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the thoughts of Lenin and how he would run Russia
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Tsar Nicholas
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the Tsar of russia from 1894-1917
over thrown by march revolution |
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Constituent assembly
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the eleceted assembly that was supposed to make the new constitution
promised under the provisional goveremtn happened under lenin they disagereed wit him adn where sacked |
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Land decree
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the first thing that lenin did in office
gave the pesants land |
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Sovnarkom
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goveremtn institution formed under lenin after the october revolution of 1917
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Reds
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belshiviks
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Whites
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menshivikes
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Kulaks
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rich pesents
land owners |
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War Communsim
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economic policy under lenin
banned all private trade all surplus food was taken factories are nationalized |
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Krondstadt Mutiny
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rebellion from the naval soldiers against bolshevik goverement
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New Economic Policy
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policy of relaxed goveremnt control over the economy
allowed private trade surplus food was allowed to be kept small factories could be run privatly |
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Treaty of Rapallo
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between Russia and Germany
Germany showed and provided the steel for Russia to make arms Germany was allowed to make munitions in Russi |
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Lenin
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communist leader of russia from 1917-1924
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General Secretary of the Communist party
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leader of the USSR
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who ruled Russia before 1917
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Tsars
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what type of goverement was Tsars
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Autocratic
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what was the outcome of the 1905 revoluttion
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formation of the Duma
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how did Russia do in WW1
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very badly
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How did the MArch revolution begin
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with a week long general strike
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what did the Tsar do about the revoltion
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sent in officers who joined the rebelas
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what was the outcome fo the March revolution
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Provisional goverment was formed under Prince Lvov
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what are the two main parties in Russia in 1917
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Menshiviks and bolsheviks
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who led the Bolsheviks
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Lenin
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what where both parties ideas built on
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Karl Marx
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what was the difference between the two parties
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Bolsheviks wanted communism
Menshiviks wanted socialism |
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where was Lenin during the March revolution
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Germany
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How did Lenin get back to Russia
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With assistance from the Germans
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how was the Provisional goveremtn initialy recived
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Very well
they intoduced working laws, relased all political prisionors, promised to make a constiution assembly |
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what was the major error of the provisional govermetn
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to continue the war
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what happened in July of 1917
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ant-govermenet protests
shut down quickly, led to the arrest of many bolsheviks |
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who took over the provisional goverement
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Kerensky
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what was the outcome of the November revolution
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Lenin got power of Russia
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when did the constituant assembl elections happen
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after Lenin took power
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what happened to the constituent assembly
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it was dismissed by Lenin
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what where the first two things Lenin did when he came into power
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Gave alnd to the people
Put an end to the war |
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what other things did Lenin do upon taking office
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Private ownership was ended
titles and rankers where removed women where made equal to men religion was removed |
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when was the russian civial war
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1918-1920
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what was the wests reaction to the civial war
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the sent arms to the whites
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what advantages did the whites have
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more soldiers
forgien assistance |
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what advantages did the reds have
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contorl of industrial centres and rail roads
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who won the civial war?
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Reds
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what was the goal of war communism
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to provide for the army
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when was war communism
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1918-1921
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how effective was war communisim on the economy
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very bad
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when did Lenin die
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1924
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who fought for power after Lenins death
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Stalin, Trotsky
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how did Stalin adn Trotsky differ in their veiws of communism internationally
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Trotsky wanted world revolution
stalin wanted to stay out fo the world |
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what did Stalin do to trotsky
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had him killed in 1940
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how was russia industrially before the 5 year plans
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very bad
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what did the Kulaks do instead of handing over their farms
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destroyed them
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how many people wher killed in stlains purges
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3 million
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what where the two groups that where purged
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army and political
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what was seen as the best part of the NEP
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it allowed free enterprise
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according to Marxists where was a revolution to happen
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in an advanced industrial nation
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how did Lenin gain popular support in 1917
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called to end the war
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why did the white fail to win the civial war
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unorganized
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