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Russian Rev. Vocab
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Proletariat | the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and came to rule Russia |
| Bloody Sunday | January 22, 1905 200,000 workers and their famalies go to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg with a petition asking for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and a elected national legislature however Nicholas II responded by massacring them |
| Bolsheviks | Supported a small number of revolutionaries willing to sacrifice anything for change |
| Gulags | Soviet network of forced labor camps used to terrorize opponents of the government and get cheap labor that happened between 1950 and 1955 |
| Provisional Government | Temporary government formed by the Duma to rule until elections were held |
| Alexander Kerensky | Took control of the provisional government in February 1917 and made a bad decision to keep Russia in WWI costing him his support from the people |
| Nicholas II | Last czar of Russia; made a bad decision to take over the army with little experience |
| Abdictate | To renounce one's throne |
| Lenin | Leader of the Bolsheviks who's slogan is about peace, land and bread, organized Russia into many republics and helped with the New Economic Policy |
| Czar | Emperor of Russia before 1917 |
| Communism | An economic system which all means of production are owned by the people, private property does not exist and all goods and services are shared equally |
| Totalitarian | government control over every aspect of public and private life |
| Great Purge | A campaign by Stalin being terror directed at anyone who helped threaten his power. Bolsheviks who helped stage the revolution were executed or sent to labor camps by the mid-1930s he changed the Soviet Union and made it and industrial and political power |
| Josef Stalin | Wanted to create a perfect Communism state in Russia making it so he has turn it into a totalitarian state |
| Five Year Plan | Plan for development by Stalin to increase the Soviet Union's economy by adding quotas to steel,oil,coal, and electricity as a result people had shortages of housing, food, clothing,etc |
| March Revolution | March 1917 woman textile workers in Petrograd lead a citywide strike with about 200,000 people flaring about shortages of bread and fuel, shooters began to side with the protesters, it was the revolution to bring down czarist rule |
| When did Alexander III rule? | 1881-1894 |
| Nicholas II rule | 1894-1917 |
| Alexander Kerensky rule | Feb 1917-Oct 1917 |
| Lenin rule | 1917-1924 |
| Stalin rule | 1924-1953 |
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