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Chapter 7 Flashcards

1
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What does Boevaya Oranisatsia mean?

A

“The Fighting Organization”; terror sub organization within the Russian Social Revolutionary Party; given autonomy under the party

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Who are the Bolsheviks?

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Extreme left-wing radicals, who favored revolution

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3
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Who are the Chekas?

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Communist secret police organization established during the Russian Revolution in 1917

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4
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What are Gulags?

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Forced labor camps set up by the Soviet internal police for dissidents and politicians

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5
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What does HEU stand for?

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Highly enriched uranium

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6
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What is the IMU?

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Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan - militant Islamist group formed in 1991

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7
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What does KLA stand for?

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Kosovo Liberation Army

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8
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Who are the KLA?

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A kosovar Albanian group that sought to break away from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1990s

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9
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What does Narodnaya Volya translate to?

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The people’s will

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10
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Who killed Czar Alexander II in 1881?

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Sophia Perovskaya, member of Narodnaya Volya

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11
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How long did Narodnaya Volya last?

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1878-1881

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12
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What did the NV symbolize in nineteenth century Russia?

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General social crisis

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What were the NV’s targets?

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Those who deemed guilty of acts of corruption and offences against the people

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14
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What group existed within the Social Revolutionary Party?

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Boevaya Oranisatsia (BO)

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15
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Opposition to the Bolsheviks rule came from what?

A

Intelligentsia and newspapers

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16
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On March 1918, Lenin dissolved what when it failed to recognize the leadership of the Bolshevik government?

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The constituent assembly

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17
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What does Stalins name mean?

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Steel

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18
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What was his name synonymous with?

A

Terror

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19
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This terrorist is believed to have received his indoctrination, training, and funding in the Soviet Union

A

Carlos the Jackal

20
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How long did Stalin reign as Absolute Ruler of Soviet Russia?

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1929-1953

21
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What did he do to people that opposed him?

A

Either shot them or sent them to gulags in Siberia

22
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Cheka was formed in

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1917

23
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Who was their first chief?

A

Feliks Dzerzhinski

24
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What started the chain of events that lead to the “great terror”?

A

The murder of a senior Politburo member, Sergei Kriov on Dec. 1, 1934; he was the leader of the communist party in Leningrad

25
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Why was Kriov murdered?

A

He had been approached by some party members to take over as general secretary, although he was not thought as a threat to Stalin

26
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What does BO stand for?

A

Boevaya Oranisatsia

27
Q

Estonian Guerrilla Movement lasted from

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1944-1955

28
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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

A

The Forest Brethen

29
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This school is known as the Killer College

A

The Patrice Lumumba University

30
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The Killer College was established in and where?

A

Moscow in 1961

31
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Why was the Killer College established?

A

The Soviet Union’s educational contribution to he Third World countries of Africa and Asia

32
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What known terrorist studied at this school?

A

Carlos the Jackal

33
Q

He is the President of the Russian Federation

A

Vladimir Putin

34
Q

Russia became a “democracy” following the break up of what?

A

The Soviet Union

35
Q

What is the KGB called?

A

the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (FSB)

36
Q

Putin was head of the FSB from when to when?

A

July 1998-August 1999

37
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What are the names of the 5 FSB departments?

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Counterintelligence Department
Antiterrorist Department
Strategic Forecasting and Analysis Department
Personnel and Management Department
Operational Support Department
38
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What are the names of the 8 FSB directorate?

A 
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
39
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What happened on November 22, 1998?

A

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.

40
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The Russian States have many sites that produced what during the Cold War years and beyond?

A

Nuclear Material

41
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The major cause for concern, in respect to Russia in particular, the threat of theft of weapon grade material such as

A

Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)

42
Q

Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge area is best described as what?

A

A lawless region, home to refugees as well as Arab and Chechen terrorists

43
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Human intelligence coming from this region indicates significant numbers of what operating in the Pankisi Gorge?

A

Islamic extremists

44
Q

KLA in the mid-1990’s began attacking what?

A

Serbian Police

45
Q

They were a known supplier of heroin and morphine to Kurdish dissidents in Turkey

A

KINTEX

46
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True or false, drugs have been used as trade for weapons?

A

True

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