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Stone 14.5/16.4 Quiz
Vocabulary quiz review for Russia under Communist rule (Sections 14.5 and 16.4).
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Romanov | the royal dynasty of the Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra who rule the Russian Empire |
| Marxist | a supporter and believer of the socialist ideas established by Karl Marx; supporters of radical revolution from the Dictatorship of the Proletariat |
| Proletariat | the working class (i.e. factory workers, railroad workers, miners, urban wage workers) |
| Gregory Rasputin | an illiterate peasant and self-proclaimed "holy man"; who advised Tsarina Alexandra and "healed" her hemophilic son, Alexi Romanov, from uncontrollable internal bleeding |
| Hemophilia | a disorder in which any injury can result in uncontrollable bleeding |
| Soviets | council of workers and soldiers who first worked democratically within the Russian government |
| Bolsheviks | communists; a radical socialist group who took control of the soviets |
| V.I. Lenin | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, a revolutionary who changed his name to Lenin; hated the government after his older brother was arrested and executed for planning to kill the tsar |
| Dictatorship of the Proletariat | a system of government led by an elite revolutionary party which represented a small percentage of Soviets |
| Mensheviks | a group of socialists in Russia who favored the apprpach of gradual and moderate reforms such as higher wages, increased suffrage, and social welfare programs |
| Red Guard | squads of armed factory workers who joined mutinous sailors from the Russian fleet in attacking the provisional government |
| Kremlin | the former tsarist center of government that, by force, became the Bolsheviks' headquarters |
| Hammer & Sickle | symbols on the new Russian flag that represented the union between workers and farmers/peasants |
| Communists | the Bolsheviks, under a new name, who planned to dictate the millions of people in Russia who thought that they had finally gained control over their own lives |
| Reds | the popular name known for Communists during Russia's civil war |
| Whites | the counterrevolutionaries - tsarist imperial officers, Mensheviks, democrats, and others who united to defeat the Bolsheviks |
| Cheka | a secret police force controlled by the Communists which executed anyone suspected of taking action against the revolution |
| Gulag | a system of brutal labor camps where grumblers or critics were rounded up and sent to; people often died there |
| Commisars | Communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and to ensure party loyalty |
| U.S.S.R. | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Lenin's Communist nation which united much of the old Russian empire into a communist nation |
| Joseph Stalin | A shrewd political operator and behind-the-scenes organizer; supported building socialism in the U.S.S.R. rather than the entire world at the time; contended with Leon Trotsky, another Communist leader, for power over U.S.S.R. |
| Red Square | The historic public square in Moscow where tens of thousands of people came to view the preserved body of Vladimir Lenin under permanent display |
| Five Year Plans | several plans proposed by Joseph Stalin with the purpose of building heavy industry, improving transportation, and increasing farm output |
| Command Economy | system in which Soviet government officials made all basic economic decisions |
| Collectives | large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group; government provided tractors, fertilizers, and better seed; peasants learned modern farming methods |
| Kulaks | wealthy peasant farmers in the Soviet Union in the 1930s |
| Terror Famine | scarce agriculture output caused by the soviet government's seizure of all of farmers' grains in order to meet industrial goals; as a result, millions died of starvation because they resisted giving up their land to the government |
| Purges | reign of terror when the government rid of Old Bosheviks and anyone who seemed to support conterrevolutionary plots or who failed to meet production quotas by charging them with crimes |
| Cult of Personality | Stalin's attempt to boost the morale and faith in the Communist system by making himself a godlike figure |
| Socialist Realism | artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing soviet life in a positive light |
| Russification | making a nationality's culture more ethnically Russian |
| Atheism | belief that there is no god |
| Red Scare | Western capitalists' fear of the spread of communist ideas; also known as "McCarthyism" |
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