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Question | Answer |
daughter of nicholas 2 thought to have died when the Romanov family was executed in 1918, since then many women have claimed to be her | Anastasia |
president of the USSR 1983-4 | Andropov |
radicals in the russian revolution who favored a revolution instead of gradual change; led by lenin | bolsheviks |
soviet political leader who seized control of the soviet communist party from Khrushchev in 1964 and went on to become head of the soviet union until his death in 1982 | Brezhnev |
18th century empress of russia who greatly expanded russian territory | Catherine the Great |
premier of the ussr who's restructuring(perestroika) and openness(glasnost) gave the soviets slightly more freedom of expression | Gorbachev |
Ruled Russia as "Sovereign of all Russia" 1462-1505 | Ivan the Great |
Russian Czar (1547-84) known for his cruelty and brutality; first to assume title of Czar | Ivan the Terrible |
premier of the soviet union 1958-64; was premier during the cuban missle crisis | Khrushchev |
russian political leader who founded the bolshevik party; 1st premier of USSR 1918-24 real name: Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov; succeeded by Stalin in 1924 | Lenin |
Czar of russia 1682-1725 who tried to modernize russia; moved capital of russia from moscow to st.petersburg which he built | Peter the Great |
monk who gained enormous influence over Nicholas 2 before and during ww1 | Rasputin |
soviet ruler 1929-53 who succeeded Lenin | Stalin |
russian revolutionary who was assassinated in mexico city in 1940 under orders of stalin | Trotsky |
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