Dictators Flashcards

(32 cards)

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Autocracy

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A government where the leader has total power

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Pogroms

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Programs of organized violence against jews

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Sergey Witte

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Czar’s best advisor-he helped build the trans-siberian railway

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Trans-Siberian railway

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The worlds longest continuous railway- goes through all russia

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Mensheviks

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Wants a large base of popluar support for a revolution

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Bolsheviks

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Wanted a small amount of commited people who will sacrifice everything for radical chamge V.I Lenin was their leader

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Leon Trosky

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Stalin’s rival for the control of the communist party- he got banished from country after Stalin got power

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Rasputin

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“Holyman” Manipulated Czar’s wife when she was left in power

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Duma

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Name of russias first parlamemt

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Provisional government

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A temporary government that failed-said that russia would stay in WW1

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Soviets

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Counsels of workers, peasents, and soliers, trying to figure out what to do

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Command economy

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Government makes all economic decisions

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NEP

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New economic policy- Lenin’s attempt at free market/capitalism- didnt work bc he was too greedy

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Stalin

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Created socialism in 1 country

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Totalitarianism

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The government has total centralized control of every aspect of public/ privet life

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Kulaks

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Class of wealthy peasents who resisted-stalin sent them to prison

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5 year plan

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Guidelines to increase steal, coal,oil, and electricity/government limited amount people could have

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Bloody sunday

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January 22 1905-200,000 Russians went to the St. Petersburg Palace/ They wanted better working conditions/wages/freedom-elections

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V.I Lenin

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Leader of the Bolsheviks

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Legislature

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Government body like congress

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Abdication

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When Czar left the throne 1917

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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Got Russia out of WW1

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Communism

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Soceity in which all property is public and all people work/paid the same

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Collective farms

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Soviets seized 25 million privet farms and combined them into large government owned farms

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What are 3 things Czar Alexander insisted all Russians do
1. Follow the absolute authority of Czar 2. Everyone has to worship atthe Russian Orthodox Church 3. Speak Russian
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Wgat 3 problems did rapid industrialization bring to russia
1. really bad work conditions 2. low wages 3. Child labor
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What 3 demands did workers have on Bloody sunday
1. better working conditions 2. mire personal freedom 3. Wanted elections/eleced offical
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Why did Czar move the government headquarters to the front of war
He couldnt trust the military leaders
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Why did Germany send V.I Lenin back to Russia
To hurt Russian war effort and bring cautious
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When the Bolsheviks came into power what 3 things did Lenin do
1. gives back land to peasents 2. gives factory workers control of factories 3. Signed treaty of Brest Litovsk
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Name 3 other world leaders that used Totalitarianism
1. Hitler-Germany 2. Benito Mussolini-Italy 3. Kim ll sung-north Korea
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Hiw did soviet totalitarianism control every aspect of Soviet workers life
Told workers what job and how many jours theyll work theyll have. Workers had to ask permission to move houses. Anyone who doesnt work will be sent to prison