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russian revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what did czar peter do for russia | expanded and modernized russia |
| peter introduced | Russia Western style navy, fashions, & city-planning |
| the enlightenment led | to new democratic reforms throughout Europe . |
| in russia, the romanov czars continued to do what | rule as absoulte monarchs |
| czars like alexander III used what against their citizens | used secret police to monitor citizens, censored the media, & sent political prisoners to labor camps in Siberia. |
| what did czars organize | Czars organized pogroms (violent attacks) against ethnic minorities like Jews & Poles in Russia . |
| pogroms | violent attacks |
| how did the industrail revoultion affect europe | The Industrial Revolution made European militaries & economies the strongest in the world. |
| russian industry lagged behind europe-how | had few railroads and most citizens were poor farmers |
| what happened when russia committed to industrilazation | led to poor wages, long hours, & discontent among the Russia people. |
| how did russia use its industy | built a respectable navy but had problems mass-producing weapons . |
| in1894 what happened | , Czar Nicolas II came to power but failed to address major problems from 1904 to 1917 |
| what did nicholas II do when russia liberals called for democractic reforms | Nicholas II ordered his secret police to persecute those calling for reform |
| in 9004, what did russia and japan go to war over | manchuria and korea |
| who lost the the war between russia and japan | russia lsot, and it exposed weakness in the nations military and gov't |
| what happend after the russo-japanese war | set of a series of riots among commoners who were unhappy with Nicholas’ government |
| bloody sunday 1905 | Russian commoners met outside the czar’s Winter Palace to demand better working conditions, right to form unions, & a democratic constitution |
| what is bloody sunday know as bloody sunday | when the czar’s guards fired into the crowd ; Riots broke out across Russia |
| in 1905 what did nicolas II agree to | agreed to new constitution that created a Duma (parliament) & limited monarchy; But Nicholas ignored the Duma |
| The czar’s unpopularity & failure of the government to respond to problems increased calls for | socialism |
| what did socialist demand | demanded that the government control all means of production to create an equal society |
| what did karl marx develop | developed a radical form of socialism in called communism in which the working class led a revolution, seized property, & shared all wealth without a gov’t. |
| what did radical workers, peasants,and soliders began to form | to form councils called soviets that held meetings & assumed control over local gov’ts. |
| who was vladmir lenin | a radical socialist |
| what did lenin form | the bolsheviks |
| what were the bolsheviks | , a group that supported a revolutionary overthrow of the Russian government. |
| why did lenin flee russia | , Lenin fled Russia to avoid arrest by the czar’s secret police & waited for an opportunity to return & lead his revolution |
| what was the a fatal czar nichola's support in russia | russia's involvement in world war 1 |
| was the russian military a match for the germany army | no |
| what did russia have difficulty during WW1 | had difficulty producing weapons for soldiers on the front, food shortages were common for troops & civilians, the lack of trains slowed supplies & communication |
| russia soldiers stats | Russia drafted 15 million soldiers & nearly 7 million were killed or wounded; 1.5 million civilians died . |
| what happened when czar nicholas refused to pull russia out of war | went to the Eastern Front to personally take command of the army. |
| who did nicholas leave in charge when he was gone | left his wife, Alexandra, in charge of the day-to-day operations of the Russian government |
| who dud alexandra hire to help cure her hemophiliac son(alexi) | mystic named Rasputin |
| what did many people fear abt rasputin | Many people feared that Rasputin was controlling the royal family & murdered him . |
| why were citizens in russia rioting during WW1 | demanding an end the monarchy & to World War I |
| what happened after czar nicholas II abdicted the throne | the Duma created a provisional (temporary) government |
| who returned and led the bolsheviks in the russia revolution | vladmir lenin |
| how did lenin message of "peace, land, and bread" help gain him popularity | helped him gain popularity among the Russian people. |
| what was lenin message | " peace, land and bread" |
| what did the bolshevik red guards do abt the gov't | Bolshevik Red Guards seized control of the provisional government & declared themselves the new gov’t leaders of Russia . |
| what ended the 300 years of rule by czars in russia | The Bolsheviks arrested & executed the Romanovs |
| what did lenin accomplish ruling russia | ordered all farmland to be distributed among the peasants, gave control of the facotories to the workers, signed a truce with Germany & gave up huge territories in order to get Russia out of the war. |
| The Russian Revolution led to a civil war between | Bolshevik Red Army & the White Army |
| white army | people who wanted a new czar, democracy, or land back. |
| who did britain, france and USA support in the russia revoltion | white shirts |
| why did britain, france and USA support the white shirts | to get russia back in WW1 |
| who won the russia rev | red army and lenin is now the leader of russia |
| what did lenin rename russia | union of soviet socialist republics (USSR) |
| what did lenin create | the Communist Party which ruled the Soviet Union as a dictatorship |
| what did lenin death lead to | power struggle in USSR |
| who was in control of russia after lenin | joseph stalin-out maneuvered his rivals |
| what did stalin quickly create | created a totalitarian state in which he had total control of the gov’t & peoples’ lives |
| what kind of dictator was stalin and what did he do the USSR | Stalin was a totalitarian dictator who transformed the USSR into a police state |
| what did stalin lead | Stalin led the Great Purge to eliminate potential rivals in the Communist Party (He executed 8-13 million). |
| what did stalin do to control citizens | Stalin used propaganda & censorship to control information & began education programs to teach communist ideals & loyalty to Russia children. |
| why stalin the five year plans | to overhaul the soviet economy |
| what did stalin to when he seized control of the economy | set high production quotas on steel, coal, oil, electricity |
| what did the five year plans help | dramatically improved Soviet industry & helped modernize the military. |
| what did stalin do the private farm he seized | combined them into large government-controlled collective farms |
| how many peasansts lived and worked on collective farms | 90% |
| result of collective farms | Agricultural production improved in the USSR, but farming was inefficient & peasants resented having their land taken from them . |
| what did stalin declare | declared men and women equal |
| how did women rights increased | women could vote and join the communist party |
| what were women expected to do | to work in factories and on collective farms like men. |
| how did stalin feel abt religion | Stalin attacked all religion & created a nation of atheists (no emphasis on religion); |
| what did stalin do to the orthdox churhces and jewish snagogues | ordered destruction |
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