Dictators Flashcards
Autocracy
A government where the leader has total power
Pogroms
Programs of organized violence against jews
Sergey Witte
Czar’s best advisor-he helped build the trans-siberian railway
Trans-Siberian railway
The worlds longest continuous railway- goes through all russia
Mensheviks
Wants a large base of popluar support for a revolution
Bolsheviks
Wanted a small amount of commited people who will sacrifice everything for radical chamge V.I Lenin was their leader
Leon Trosky
Stalin’s rival for the control of the communist party- he got banished from country after Stalin got power
Rasputin
“Holyman” Manipulated Czar’s wife when she was left in power
Duma
Name of russias first parlamemt
Provisional government
A temporary government that failed-said that russia would stay in WW1
Soviets
Counsels of workers, peasents, and soliers, trying to figure out what to do
Command economy
Government makes all economic decisions
NEP
New economic policy- Lenin’s attempt at free market/capitalism- didnt work bc he was too greedy
Stalin
Created socialism in 1 country
Totalitarianism
The government has total centralized control of every aspect of public/ privet life
Kulaks
Class of wealthy peasents who resisted-stalin sent them to prison
5 year plan
Guidelines to increase steal, coal,oil, and electricity/government limited amount people could have
Bloody sunday
January 22 1905-200,000 Russians went to the St. Petersburg Palace/ They wanted better working conditions/wages/freedom-elections
V.I Lenin
Leader of the Bolsheviks
Legislature
Government body like congress
Abdication
When Czar left the throne 1917
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Got Russia out of WW1
Communism
Soceity in which all property is public and all people work/paid the same
Collective farms
Soviets seized 25 million privet farms and combined them into large government owned farms
What are 3 things Czar Alexander insisted all Russians do
- Follow the absolute authority of Czar
- Everyone has to worship atthe Russian Orthodox Church
- Speak Russian
Wgat 3 problems did rapid industrialization bring to russia
- really bad work conditions
- low wages
- Child labor
What 3 demands did workers have on Bloody sunday
- better working conditions
- mire personal freedom
- Wanted elections/eleced offical
Why did Czar move the government headquarters to the front of war
He couldnt trust the military leaders
Why did Germany send V.I Lenin back to Russia
To hurt Russian war effort and bring cautious
When the Bolsheviks came into power what 3 things did Lenin do
- gives back land to peasents
- gives factory workers control of factories
- Signed treaty of Brest Litovsk
Name 3 other world leaders that used Totalitarianism
- Hitler-Germany
- Benito Mussolini-Italy
- Kim ll sung-north Korea
Hiw did soviet totalitarianism control every aspect of Soviet workers life
Told workers what job and how many jours theyll work theyll have. Workers had to ask permission to move houses.
Anyone who doesnt work will be sent to prison
