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Russo-Japanese War   battle over Manchuria and Korea; Japan won are proved that they are a Great Power; Russia- stiffle czar critisism and secure Vladiviostak; Russia losses  
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Alexander III   son of Alexander II (freed serfs); reactionary and silenced even peaceful criticism  
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pograms   work/labor camps for the Jews and political dissenders in Russia; worsest up until that point  
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Russification   oppostie of nationalism; forced assimulation of Ukraines, Poles, Lithuanians, etc into Russian culture; led by Alexander III  
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Pobiedonostev   leader of Russification, procurator of Holy Synod; saw west as alien and bad, attacked rationalism and liberalism  
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Constitutional Democrats   aka Cadets; 'constitutionalists' that worried more about the need of an elected parliament than troubles of factories and peasansts; rising business and professional clasess, landownders  
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mirs   peasant village farmning communtities  
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Kulaks   more wealthy (but still really poor) peasants; 'big farmers' who could own and lease a small part of land; later hated  
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populists   most of revolutionary intelligentsia; interested in peasant problems and welfare; admired the mirs and read Marx/Engels; capitalism did not have to seceede socialism; revolution will come soon  
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Social Revolutionaries   supported peasant revolution;  
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Social Democrats   supported a working class revolution  
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Bolsheviks   'majority' of Social Revolutionaries; revolution now, dont wait to industrialize  
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Mensheviks   'minority'; revolution needs to wait for industrialization  
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Bloody Sunday   a group of peaceful protesters tried to tell their issues to czar Nicholas II; he was out of town, torrps paniched and killed 100s  
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soviets   councils of workers; main one is in St. Petersburg  
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Ocotober Manifesto   czar promised a constitution, civil liberties, and Duma; divided oppostition (threw a bone); constitutional Dem, others figured it was a deception (which it was)  
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Father Gapon   priest who believed that the czar just didn't realize that there were problems in Russia; led group that caused Bloody Sunday  
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Duma   Russian parliament; never had much power - no power over foreign policy, budget or gov personnel; 4 dumas  
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Peter Stolypin   wanted to build up propertied classes as friends of Russia; believed a state had little to fear if it was supported by intellectuals; broadened powers of zemstvos; unwilling support from czar and hate from revolutionaries; killed  
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Pravada   Bolshevik party paper (freedom of Russian press)  
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Little Father   aka the czar Nicholas II  
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Alexandra   czarina (who was kinda crazy); German and hated all Russians outside of her family  
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Rasputin   self-appointed holy man; cured Alexandras son of hemophillia; assassinated  
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Petrograd Soviet   "the" soviet to be in; where Bolsheviks first gained popularity (among the soviets); equivalent to Paris Commune  
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Provisional Government   continued the war, said they would help redistriubte land but never did; overthrown by Bolsheviks  
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Alexander Kerensky   a moderate Social Revolutionist; only socialist in PG; named head of PG; blaimed him for allowing counterrevolutionary plot under his gov; abandoned  
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Order No. 1   Petrograd Soviets declared that command in the army was controled by committes elected by officers and soldiers; fearing reactionary officers; it worked  
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General Kornilov   reactionary military commander; lead counterrevolutionary attempt, support by both Left and Right (to defeat soviets); failed  
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Russian Congress of Soviets   pre-replacement of PG; Lenin and Bolshevik led government; call this until Lenin declared PG extint  
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Counil of People's Commissars   declared PG defunct; new name for Russian Congress of Soviets; so new Russain government; Lenin- head; Trotsky- military; Stalin- commissar for nationalities  
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Leon Trotsky   foreign affairs; similar to Robespierre  
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communist Party   renamed Bolshevik party  
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Cheka   Lenin's political police; 'All Russian Commission of Struggle Against Counterrevolution, Speculation, and Sabatoge'  
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KGB   eventual successor of Cheka  
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Red Army   Russian/communist Army; led by Trotsky  
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war communism   nationalized largest industries, but most still under workers' committees  
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Vladivostok   Allied countries wanted Bolsheviks to go down; planned to recapture Russia by starting at this city and movie east to Moscow in Russian Civil War  
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Whites   the enemies of the Reds in the russian Civil War; made of Russians, US, and Japan  
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Red Terror   physical extermination of those who opposed the communist regime; carried out by Lenin and the Cheka  
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Kronstadt   sailors here were among first adherants to Bolshevism; began to object to domination of Soviets; killed, like Hebertists  
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Constituent Assembly   the new Russian government  
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USSR   Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 15 'republics', Russia leading country; split into nationalities  
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Supreme Soviet   elected government of USSR; mostly just for show  
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Soviet of Nationalities   upper house of Supreme Soviet; representatives of all regions and cultural districts- mostly Russian and Slavic  
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Soviet of the Union   lower house  
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Communitst Party   real leaders of the USSR  
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Central Committee   largest, starting place within the party; 70+ members  
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Politburo   12 or so members; select few from CC; dominated discussion of party and had authority over all levels  
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General SEcretary   leader of the Politboro; calls all the shots; similar to a president (ex: Lenin, Stalin, Krushchev)  
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NEP   New Economic Plan; allowence of some capital to build up - maybe kinda easing up?? but we'll never know cause BAM assassination  
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Leningrad   Petrograd/St. Petersburg  
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permanent revolution   an incessand drive for proletariat objectives on all fronts in all parts of the world; Stalin attempting to force communism down Europe's throat; cause of fascism  
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Five-Year Plan   launched in 1928; rapid industrialization and collectivisation of agriculture; causes great famine in Ukraine  
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Gosplan   agency that administered the first 5Year Plan; determined how much of a national effort should go into formation of capital and how much should go to daily consumption  
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collectivization   originally only 1/5 of Russain farms, but plan eventually included mostly all Russian farms; collective farms owned by peasants as a whole; lead to famine  
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stakhanovites   'labor heroes' who increased productivity  
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Serge Kirov   Stalin's oldest alliance; assassinated by Stalin, igniting the start of the Great Terror  
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Great Terror   Stalin's purge of his political enemies; killed 3 million +  
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Old Bolsheviks   originial Bolsheviks; Stalin murdered almost all during GT; they 'confessed' for crimes after months of torture  
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Comminterm   communist international  
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