ch 16.4 + 17.7 key terms and names Flashcards
“mad monk” rasputin
“man of steel” joseph stalin
nicholas II
- represents special privileges of dynasty
5 year plan
Institute karl marx’s theory of communism on whole country
Building heavy industry
Command economy (government control of economy)
Heavy industry is steel plants, coal mining, iron ore mining
Improving transportation
Building massive railroad network
Increasing farm output
Feed workers producing other part of 5 year plan
Get rid of tiny peasant farm
duma
state assembly
command economy
proletariat
The growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners.
collectivization
Large farms owned and operated by peasants as groups
march revolution
kulaks
Wealthy farmers
Farmers that resisted collectivization
soviets
kolyma
Kolyma was the most popular region for the Gulag labor camps. More than 10,000 people died in this area
vladimir lenin
Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks, or the Russian communist party. He served as the head of the soviet-government for 7 years, and the later soviet union, and he ran the Bolshevik revolution. In 1897, Lenin was exiled and sent to Shushenskoye, Siberia for 3 years for sedition.
great purge
karl marx