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Whose slogan is “Land, peace, and bread”

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Lenin and Bolsheviks

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Lenin: Red or White?

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Red

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Lenin transformed autocratic Czarist rule to what?

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Dictatorial rule by Communism

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Dictatorship of the Proletariat is a characteristic of which political belief?

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Marxism
Leninism

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Lenin’s NEP

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Enforced capitalism

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Stalin’s five year plans and collectivization

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Increase in industrial production
Collectivization: land taken from private owners to have them work in large farms

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Who became scrapegoats for Stalin?

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Kulaks: Prosperous land-owning peasants

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Holodomor: What and Puprose

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Genocide of Ukranians during the famine of 1932-1933
Purpose: Stalin wanted to eliminate Ukranian nationalism

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Great Purge: Dates and Purpose

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1936-1938
Political repression and remove opposition

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Gulags

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Forced labour camps (death camps)

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General Secretary structure of Soviet Union for LENIN (2)

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  1. Council of People’s Commissars
  2. Secretariat
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1922, what was feature of government?

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Lenin’s one-party Leninist state

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“Democratic Centralism”

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Developed by Lenin: TRUE democracy lied in obedience to authority

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How did Lenin get rid of SR’s (Social Revolutionaries?)

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Purges and Show Trials

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Comintern

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The Commmunist international: formed in 1919 to revolutionize the world

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Why was the Comintern/ Third International abandoned?

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Grew from collapse of capitalism of WW1: world revolution failed

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Where did Stalin’s ‘socialism in one country“ one from?

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Sprang from the defeat of revolutionary internationalism on which the Comintern was founded

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Stalin’s position as Peopel’s Commisssar for Nationalities (1917)

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In charge of officials in many regions and republics; understood minorities

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Liaison Officer betweeen Politburo and Orburo

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Monitor Party’s policy and personnel

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Patronage

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Providing governmental approval and extending privileges to selected individuals

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The government

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Council of Commissars

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The party

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Lenin enrolment

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CPSU membership rose from 340 000 to 600 000

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Stalin joined unofficial triumvirate with which two peoples (that he would soon abandon?)

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Kamenev and Zinoviev

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Trotsky’s hanicaps
- Jew - high intellectualism made him appear as outsider - dangerously ambitious - became member pretty recent (1917)
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War Communism: Who’s policy and three points
Lenin’s policy - brought agriculture under control - seized grain stocks from peasants - prohibited farming for profit
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Was War Communism effective?
No. Peasants revolted and hunger intensified
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How did Stalin undermine Trotsky?
Undermined Trotsky’s attitude towards NEP: To continue with NEP is to place Nepmen interests above Revolution
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Nepmen
Profiteers under NEP to enrich themselves
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Who’s policy is Permanent Revolution? What is it?
Trotsky - revolution in Russia would cause worldwide revolution of the proletariat - USSR could not survive a lonely revolution
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WHo’s policy is SOcialism in one country? What is it?
Stalin - overcome present agricultural problems - proceed to build modern state - survival is PRIORITY
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‘New opposition’: what is it?
Opposition from Triumvirate: Kamenev and Zinoviev
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Trotsky fought back using what idea?
BUreaucratization Secretariat was growing in power, so he ordered Paty democracy to fight back. FAILED: RUSSIA WAS ORIGINALLY A BUREAUCRATIC STATE
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Why did right opposition collapse? (3)
- Ideas: did not play on fear - Weak orgniazation - lack of support
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What is the second revolution?
Revolution from above: turning away from proletariat, Stalin now commanded economy from above
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Secret Police Names Order
Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, KGB
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Consequences of collectivization
- social upheaval - starvation - conspiracy of silence
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Gosplan
Soviet state economic planning agency: drew quotas for Five Year Plans
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Problem with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd FYP’s
- lack of coordination: over and under production in different places - exaggerated numbers
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Ryutin affair
1932: Ryutin, right communist, published attack on Stalin. Were expelled from party
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What did Stalin do after the death of Kirov (likely killed by Stalin?)
Created Decree Against Terrorist Acts - purge of party
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Purge of the party was replaced with who?
People part of the Stalin Enrolment
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The Great Fatherland War
Adopted by Soviet Union to describe WW2
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Konsomol
The Soviet Communist Union of YOUTH (parallel to Hitler youth)
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Lenin’s view on women
Made divorce easier Liberate women from bondage of children
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Stalin’s Great Retreat: What?
Policy which promoted traditional family values
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Stalin’s View on international Munich agreement
Believed that it was a gatherment of anti-Soviet nations of Europe, intending to give Germany a free hand to attack a diplomatically isolated USSR.
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Success or failure: Stalin reached out for agreement between France and Britain?
Failure; F and G.B. Were indifferent
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Result of Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941
Soviet regained all lost territories in WW1
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Treaty of Rapallo
Provided German forces with training grounds for USSR in return for trading rights in Germany
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Constitutent assembly
After October Rev, Lenin promised to hold elections for parliament. CA CLOSED AFTER 1 DAY
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Kronstadt Revolt 1921
War communism made Lenin unpopular
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