Russian Rev

Question 1

Autocratic

Answer 1

-One leader in total control of country with no other advisors

Question 2

Czar Nicholas (Romanovs)

Answer 2

-Last Czar of Russia
-abdicated during March revolution which ended the Romanov dynasty

Question 3

Rasputin

Answer 3

-Known as “Mad Monk”
-close with Alexandra; people didn’t trust him
-claims to heal/control her son’s hemophilia
-corrupt and uneducated in government

Question 4

Bloody Sunday

Answer 4

-Workers marched to the winter palace
-better work conditions more freedoms and upset about the treaty after Ruso-Japanese war
-soldiers fired on people and many died

Question 5

Duma

Answer 5

-Congress that was made by the czar to appeal to the people
-really did nothing/still autocracy
-dissolved after 10 months
-result of bloody Sunday

Question 6

Lenin

Answer 6

-Lived in Germany
-released by the germans to spread communism in Russia to stop the two front war
-“peace land and bread”
-leader of Petrograd soviet
-becomes first communist leader of Russia

Question 7

Bolsheviks

Answer 7

Early communist party

Question 8

Communism

Answer 8

-Classless society
-everything owned by the state
-government BY the working class
-wealth redistributed; wages rather than salary

Question 9

Proletariat

Answer 9

-The working class
-wanted a proletariat revolution to form communism in Russia

Question 10

March Revolution

Answer 10

• Female workers mad about the lack of food and fuel (all resources being sent to WWI soldiers)
• many soldiers dying from being short on supplies and under industrialized
  -gained many followers very fast
  -Alexandria didn’t see the protests as a threat (big mistake)
  -Czar’s soldiers join the protests (HUGE deal because now there’s nobody to enforce the czar’s commands; powerless)
  -Czar overthrown on his way back to the winter palace after he realizes how serious the conflict is

Question 11

Provisional Government

Answer 11

-temporary government put in place until they founded their new government (between autocracy and communism)
-VERY WEAK

Question 12

Bolshevik Revolution

Answer 12

-Lenin and Bolsheviks want change at any cost and overthrow provisional government
-new flag (hammer and sickle)
-starts civil war in Russia (reds vs whites)
-signs treaty with Germany and gives away lots of land in exchange for exiting the war (Brest-Litovsk)

Question 13

Soviets

Answer 13

local councils of soldiers, workers, and peasants

Question 14

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 14

-treaty with germans
-gave away a lot of land in exchange for exiting WWI

Question 15

Civil War (red vs white)

Answer 15

Red army = communists
White army = people that wanted anything but communism

Question 16

War Communism

Answer 16

• Government takeover of mines, industries, banks, and railroads
• peasants forced to deliver “surplus/extra” food to hungry people in cities

Question 17

Leon Trotsky

Answer 17

-Wanted GLOBAL proletariat revolution
-Stalin vs Trotsky for leader after Lenin died

Question 18

New Economic Policy (NEP)

Answer 18

-Created by Lenin to revive economy after WWI
-State controls larger industries+ taxes, trade, and banks
-some small businesses privately owned

Question 19

Totalitarianism

Answer 19

Total centralized state control over every aspect of life (public and private)
-Police terror used to force obedience with intimidation
-Indoctrination to mold minds and form loyalty through state control over education
-Propaganda/Censorship to control media and make fake news
-Religious/ethnic persecution to remove “enemies of the state” and “others”

Question 20

Stalin

Answer 20

-Grew up as a poor family in Georgia (country)
-Studying to become a priest but dropped out to join the bolshevik rev (ironic)
-“General secretary of the Communist Party” in 1922
-Became dictator in 1924 after Lenin died
-In control during WWII

Question 21

Five Year Plan

Answer 21

Goal: make Russia an industrialized world power
-focus on agriculture and industry
-limit consumer goods and focus on oil, steel, coal, and electricity

Question 22

Collectivization

Answer 22

government takes and combines privately owned farms into large government-owned farms

Question 23

Kulaks

Answer 23

land owning peasants
-resisted collectivization

Question 24

The Great Purge

Answer 24

-Stalin goes on a killing spree
-kills people he doesn’t trust/could threaten his power
-kills 90% of bolshevik military officials (big mistake)

Question 25

Gulags