Chapter 7 Flashcards
What does Boevaya Oranisatsia mean?
“The Fighting Organization”; terror sub organization within the Russian Social Revolutionary Party; given autonomy under the party
Who are the Bolsheviks?
Extreme left-wing radicals, who favored revolution
Who are the Chekas?
Communist secret police organization established during the Russian Revolution in 1917
What are Gulags?
Forced labor camps set up by the Soviet internal police for dissidents and politicians
What does HEU stand for?
Highly enriched uranium
What is the IMU?
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan - militant Islamist group formed in 1991
What does KLA stand for?
Kosovo Liberation Army
Who are the KLA?
A kosovar Albanian group that sought to break away from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1990s
What does Narodnaya Volya translate to?
The people’s will
Who killed Czar Alexander II in 1881?
Sophia Perovskaya, member of Narodnaya Volya
How long did Narodnaya Volya last?
1878-1881
What did the NV symbolize in nineteenth century Russia?
General social crisis
What were the NV’s targets?
Those who deemed guilty of acts of corruption and offences against the people
What group existed within the Social Revolutionary Party?
Boevaya Oranisatsia (BO)
Opposition to the Bolsheviks rule came from what?
Intelligentsia and newspapers
On March 1918, Lenin dissolved what when it failed to recognize the leadership of the Bolshevik government?
The constituent assembly
What does Stalins name mean?
Steel
What was his name synonymous with?
Terror
This terrorist is believed to have received his indoctrination, training, and funding in the Soviet Union
Carlos the Jackal
How long did Stalin reign as Absolute Ruler of Soviet Russia?
1929-1953
What did he do to people that opposed him?
Either shot them or sent them to gulags in Siberia
Cheka was formed in
1917
Who was their first chief?
Feliks Dzerzhinski
What started the chain of events that lead to the “great terror”?
The murder of a senior Politburo member, Sergei Kriov on Dec. 1, 1934; he was the leader of the communist party in Leningrad
Why was Kriov murdered?
He had been approached by some party members to take over as general secretary, although he was not thought as a threat to Stalin
What does BO stand for?
Boevaya Oranisatsia
Estonian Guerrilla Movement lasted from
1944-1955
The Estonian soldiers who had been drafted into the German army attempted to escape Stalin’s discipline by leaving the country or flee to the forest are called
The Forest Brethen
This school is known as the Killer College
The Patrice Lumumba University
The Killer College was established in and where?
Moscow in 1961
Why was the Killer College established?
The Soviet Union’s educational contribution to he Third World countries of Africa and Asia
What known terrorist studied at this school?
Carlos the Jackal
He is the President of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Putin
Russia became a “democracy” following the break up of what?
The Soviet Union
What is the KGB called?
the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (FSB)
Putin was head of the FSB from when to when?
July 1998-August 1999
What are the names of the 5 FSB departments?
Counterintelligence Department Antiterrorist Department Strategic Forecasting and Analysis Department Personnel and Management Department Operational Support Department
What are the names of the 8 FSB directorate?
Directorate of Analysis and Suppression of the Activity of Criminal Organizations Investigations Directorate Operational-Search Directorate Operational-Technical Measures Directorate Internal Security Directorate Administration Directorate Prison System Directorate Scientific-Technical Directorate
What happened on November 22, 1998?
Pro-democracy parliamentarian, Galina Starovoitova, a vocal campaigner for human rights and against political corruption, was murdered in a scene reminiscent of a James Bond movie. She was shot three times in the head at close range as she entered her apartment building. Her campaign had exposed corrupt local politicians, and it is believed that this led to her assassination.
The Russian States have many sites that produced what during the Cold War years and beyond?
Nuclear Material
The major cause for concern, in respect to Russia in particular, the threat of theft of weapon grade material such as
Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)
Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge area is best described as what?
A lawless region, home to refugees as well as Arab and Chechen terrorists
Human intelligence coming from this region indicates significant numbers of what operating in the Pankisi Gorge?
Islamic extremists
KLA in the mid-1990’s began attacking what?
Serbian Police
They were a known supplier of heroin and morphine to Kurdish dissidents in Turkey
KINTEX
True or false, drugs have been used as trade for weapons?
True
