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Russian Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| On January 22, 1905, about 200,000 workers and their families approached the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. They carried a petition asking for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national legislature. | Bloody Sunday |
| Nicolas II’s generals ordered soldiers to fire on the crowd. More than 1,000 were wounded and hundreds were killed. Russians named the event “Bloody Sunday” | Bloody Sunday |
| Lenin and the Bolsheviks gained control of the Petrograd soviet, and the soviets in other major Russian cities. By the fall of 1917, people in the cities were rallying to the call “All power to the soviets.” | Bolsheviks Revolution |
| In November of 1917, armed factory workers stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd. Calling themselves the Bolshevik Red Guards, they took over government offices and arrested the leaders of the provisional government. | Bolsheviks Revolution |
| Lenin’s slogan-“Peace, Land, and Bread”” gained widespread appeal. | Bolsheviks Revolution |
| A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia’s government in November 1917. | Bolshevik's |
| an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit | Capitalism |
| A large government owned farm formed by combining many small farms | Collective Farm |
| An economic system in which the government makes all the economic decisions | Command Economy |
| an economic system in which all means of production – land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses- are owned by the people, private property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally | Communism |
| A political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin; started as the Bolshevik Party | Communist Party |
| He became czar in 1881 and clung to the principles of autocracy, a form of government in which he had total power. | Czar Alexander III |
| He stated that anyone who questioned the absolute authority of the czar, worshipped outside the Russian Orthodox Church, or spoke a language other than Russian was labeled dangerous | Czar Alexander III |
| plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union’s economy | Five Year Plans |
| Russian work camp | Gulag |
| Totalitarian states rely on indoctrination- instruction in the government’s beliefs – to mold people’s minds. | Indoctrination |
| Control of education is essential to glorify the leader and his policies and to convince all citizens that their unconditional loyalty and support are required | Indoctrination |
| Harsh dictator who took command of the communist party after Lenin died in 1924. | Joseph Stalin |
| a German philosopher who thought that history was the story of class struggle. He felt the proletariat’s numbers would become so great and their condition so poor that a spontaneous revolution would occur. | Karl Marx |
| The revolution would end with a “dictatorship of the proletariat” – the communal ownership of wealth | Karl Marx |
| First leader of the Bolshevik Party and led Russia towards revolution | Lenin |
| a revolutionary leader who expertly commanded the Bolshevik Red Army from 1918 to 1920 while civil war raged in Russia. Stalin forced him into exile in 1929. | Leon Trotsky |
| Series of strikes and revolts in 1917 which ultimately led to the collapse of the Czarist regime. | March Revolution |
| In March, 1921, Lenin temporarily put aside his plan for a state-controlled economy. Instead, he resorted to a small-scale version of capitalism called the New Economic Policy. | New Economic Policy |
| The government kept control of major industries, banks, and means of communication, but it let some small factories, businesses, and farms operate under private ownership. The government also encouraged foreign investment. | New Economic Policy |
| The reforms under the NEP allowed peasants to sell their surplus crops instead of turning them over to the government. | New Economic Policy |
| in Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia | Proletariat |
| information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent’s cause | Propoganda |
| A temporary government | Provisional Government |
| An economic goal or benchmark | Quota |
| Lover of Czar Nicholas’s wife. Key political figure when Czar left Russia during WWI and made key political decisions. | Rasputin |
| In the late 1800s, Russia and Japan competed for control of Korea and Manchuria. The two nations signed a series of agreements over the territories, but Russia broke them. | Russo-Japanese War |
| Japan retaliated by attacking the Russians in Manchuria in February of 1904. News of repeated Russian losses sparked unrest at home and led to a revolt in the midst of the war. | Russo-Japanese War |
| One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of the Czar | Soviet |
| one of a series of ambitious plans created by Stalin to direct the industrialization and economic reorganization of the Soviet Union | Stalin's Five Year Plan |
| Campaign of terror in Russia during the 1930’s, in which Stalin sought to eliminate all Communist Party members and citizens who threatened his power. | The Great Purge |
| Government control over every aspect of public and private life | Totalitarianism |
| In March of 1918, Russia and Germany signed this treaty. Russia surrendered a large part of its territory to Germany and its allies. The humiliating terms of this treaty triggered widespread anger among many Russians. | Treaty of Brest Litovsk |
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