russian people Flashcards
(121 cards)
1
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Created a ‘seven-year plan’ to surpass the US
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Khrushchev
2
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Virgin Lands Campaign
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Khrushchev
3
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Outmaneuvered Malenkov and Beria to rise to his position
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Khrushchev
4
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Advocated for ‘agro-towns’
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Khrushchev
5
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Anti-Party group (Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich) sought to depose him
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Khrushchev
6
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Fiercely against Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago
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Khrushchev
7
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Exploded with anger against avant-garde works in Manege Affair
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Khrushchev
8
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Abolished prosecution tribunals called ‘troikas’
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Khrushchev
9
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Novocherkassk Massacre occurred when food prices were raised
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Khrushchev
10
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Kitchen Debate with Nixon
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Khrushchev
11
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Banged his shoe at a UN conference in response to a Filipino delegate Lorenzo Sumulong’s speech
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Khrushchev
12
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Ordered construction of Berlin Wall
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Khrushchev
13
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Oversaw Cuban Missile Crisis
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Khrushchev
14
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Oversaw partial liberalization of Poland in Polish October
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Khrushchev
15
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Said ‘we will bury you’ in referring to the eventual triumph of communism over capitalism
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Khrushchev
16
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Sent industrial experts to China
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Khrushchev
17
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Met with American corn farmer Roswell Garst
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Khrushchev
18
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Delivered anti-Stalin ‘Secret Speech’ to 20th Congress
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Khrushchev
19
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Ruled with Alexei Kosygin and Nikolai Podgorny
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Brezhnev
20
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Removed head of Party-State Control Committee Alexander Shelepin
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Brezhnev
21
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Writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky tried under this man’s rule
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Brezhnev
22
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Ruled during Era of Stagnation, or ‘Zastoi’
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Brezhnev
23
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Signed SALT I with Nixon
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Brezhnev
24
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Authorized invasion of Afghanistan after being misinformed of its operations by Mikhail Suslov
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Brezhnev
25
Suppressed Prague Spring in Operation Danube
Brezhnev
26
Established namesake doctrine in a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party
Brezhnev
27
Glorified his efforts at Novorossiysk in a trilogy of memoirs (Minor Land, Rebirth, Virgin Lands)
Brezhnev
28
Obsessed with receiving medals
Brezhnev
29
Assassination attempt by Viktor Ilyin instead injured several astronauts
Brezhnev
30
Kiss with East German leader Honecker in 'My God, Help Me Survive This Deadly Love'
Brezhnev
31
End of reign known as 'Gerontocracy'
Brezhnev
32
Ordered destruction of realist art display called Bulldozer Exhibition
Brezhnev
33
Famously declared the Baikal-Amur Mainline would be built with 'clean hands only'
Brezhnev
34
Hosted Italian delegation at World Youth Festival
Gorbachev
35
First stage of one economic policy named uskoreniye (acceleration)
Gorbachev
36
Succeeded short rules of Andropov and Chernenko
Gorbachev
37
Created failed merged agricultural entity Agroprom
Gorbachev
38
Increased drinking age from 18 to 21 among other anti-alcoholic reforms
Gorbachev
39
Made historian Yury Afanasyev dean of State Historical Archive Faculty
Gorbachev
40
Thatcher said of this leader, 'we can do business together'
Gorbachev
41
Called a leader 'extraordinarily primitive, troglodyte, and intellectually feeble'
Gorbachev
42
Created democratically-elected Congress of People's Deputies
Gorbachev
43
Signed Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Reagan
Gorbachev
44
Human chain known as Baltic Way formed as a declaration of autonomy
Gorbachev
45
Otto von Hapsburg tested this leader in the Pan-European Picnic
Gorbachev
46
'Sinatra Doctrine' allowed Warsaw Pact countries to determine their own internal affairs
Gorbachev
47
First and only 'President of the Soviet Union'
Gorbachev
48
'500 Days' Economic program called for increased decentralization and marginal privatization
Gorbachev
49
'Gang of Eight' launched the 'August Coup' against him
Gorbachev
50
Coup launched against him by Committee for the State of Emergency
Gorbachev
51
Approved Black January intervention in Azerbaijan that killed hundreds of civilians
Gorbachev
52
Oversaw 'April 9 Tragedy' or the 'Tbilisi Massacre' in response to anti-soviet protests
Gorbachev
53
Supported separatists in Moldova in the Transnistrian War
Gorbachev
54
Once found in Washington D.C. trying to find pizza in underwear
Yeltsin
55
Claimed his countrymen would revolt if they saw the spoils of a Houston supermarket
Yeltsin
56
Yabloko Party formed to oppose this leader's reforms
Yeltsin
57
Created oligarchs like the Seven Bankers
Yeltsin
58
PM Yegor Gaidar designed 'shock therapy' program
Yeltsin
59
Denounced the August Coup in a speech on a tank
Yeltsin
60
Resigned following a scandal involving Swiss Mabatex construction firm
Yeltsin
61
Defeated Gennady Zyuganov to win reelection
Yeltsin
62
Enlightened law code called Nakaz based on Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws'
Catherine the Great
63
Secured victory at Battle of Kazan
Catherine the Great
64
One foreign minister replaced by Ivan Osterman after failure of Northern Accord
Catherine the Great
65
Alexander Suvorov put down Pugachev's Rebellion
Catherine the Great
66
Potemkin built fake villages to impress this ruler
Catherine the Great
67
Established Hermitage Museum
Catherine the Great
68
Assignation Bank produced paper money
Catherine the Great
69
Forced Peter III to abdicate
Catherine the Great
70
Created First League of Armed Neutrality to protect trade against British
Catherine the Great
71
Signed Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji with Ottomans
Catherine the Great
72
Ended the War of the Bavarian Succession
Catherine the Great
73
Navy victorious at Battle of Gangut
Peter the Great
74
Put down the Bulavin Rebellion
Peter the Great
75
Imposed tax on beards
Peter the Great
76
Created 'Grand Embassy' to Western Europe
Peter the Great
77
Incited Great Northern War
Peter the Great
78
Suppressed Streltsy Uprising
Peter the Great
79
Created religious position Most Holy Synod
Peter the Great
80
Built country's navy at Taganrog to conduct Azov Campaigns
Peter the Great
81
Ordered Sack of Novgorod
Ivan the Terrible
82
Secret police called oprichniki
Ivan the Terrible
83
Won Battle of Ergeme, but lost Livonian War
Ivan the Terrible
84
Centralized rule by dismantling Chosen Council
Ivan the Terrible
85
Conquered Kazan and Astrakhan in youth
Ivan the Terrible
86
Created the streltsy
Ivan the Terrible
87
Son of Vasily III
Ivan the Terrible
88
Established first zemsky sobor - 'assembly of the land'
Ivan the Terrible
89
Established country's first printing press, the Print Yard
Ivan the Terrible
90
Succeeded by feeble Feodor I
Ivan the Terrible
91
Forced to flee to Scandinavia after brother Yaropolk murdered other brother Oleg
Vladimir the Great
92
Assembled army through help of Hakon Sigurdsson
Vladimir the Great
93
Christianized the Kievan Rus because Islam banned alcohol
Vladimir the Great
94
Mother was housekeeper Malusha
Vladimir the Great
95
Tutored by Dobrynya
Vladimir the Great
96
Grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest
Alexander Nevsky
97
Canonized as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church
Alexander Nevsky
98
Won Battle of the Neva against Swedes
Alexander Nevsky
99
Drove out Livonian Order from Pskov
Alexander Nevsky
100
Won Battle on the Ice
Alexander Nevsky
101
Succeeded Yaroslav II
Alexander Nevsky
102
Secured position thanks to friendship with Sartaq Khan
Alexander Nevsky
103
Appointed Mikhail Speransky as closest advisor
Alexander I
104
Abolished Collegia in favor of State Council
Alexander I
105
Formed an alliance with Napoleon by Treaty of Tilsit
Alexander I
106
Replaced one advisor with Aleksey Arakcheyev
Alexander I
107
Saw January Uprising in Poland
Alexander II
108
Minister Milyutin implemented bar system
Alexander II
109
Declared, 'Gentlemen, let us have no dreams,' sparking a rebellion
Alexander II
110
Loris-Melikov appointed to create a constitution
Alexander II
111
Sold Alaska to the U.S.
Alexander II
112
Introduced system of zemstvos
Alexander II
113
Killed by People's Will explosion
Alexander II
114
Pyotr Shuvalov in charge of Third Department police force
Alexander II
115
October Manifesto created the Duma
Nicholas II
116
Sergei Witte prime minister and key advisor
Nicholas II
117
Father Gapon led a march on this ruler's palace
Nicholas II
118
Navy suffered attack at Port Arthur
Nicholas II
119
Coronation led to Khodynka Tragedy because of fear of not enough beer
Nicholas II
120
Pyotr Stolypin worked for agricultural reform under this ruler
Nicholas II
121
Saw Potemkin Uprising
Nicholas II
