Russia Part One Flashcards

(19 cards)

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Autocracy

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Absolute rule of person in a centralized state

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Tsar

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From ‘cesar’, russias emperor

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Imperalism

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Powerful countires turning other lands into colonies

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Intelligentsia

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Group or class, as a cultural or political elite power

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Soviet

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Elected local, district, or national council member

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Narodniki

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Radical populist agitators of late 19 centruy russia

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Okhrana

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Tsar sent secret police

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Anarchism

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Radical ideology seeking to overthrow all conventional forms of government

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Proletariat

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According to marx, class of individual workers

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Provisional

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Arranged or exists for the present, possibly to be changed later

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Purges

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Stalins cleansing of suspicious elements by firing squad

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Paranoia

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Unreasonable suspicion of others

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Cold war

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Period of armed tension and competition with the united states

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Capital goods

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Implements used to make other things

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Consumer goods

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Things people use (food, houses, electronics)

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Nepmen

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Business people in young soviet union who took advantage of opportunities for private trade + small manufacturing cleared by the new economic policy (NEP)

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Westernizers

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Sought to adopt western poltics + insitutions

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Salvophiles

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Keep tradition, create politics + institutions superior to the west

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Liberal reformers

Authoritarians

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Pro-west,

Anti west, naturalists