Dictators Flashcards
From 1928 until his death in 1953, he ruled the Soviet Union as a dictator, transforming the country from an agrarian peasant society into a global superpower. The cost was tremendous and was responsible for the deaths of millions of Soviet citizens.
Josef Stalin
Was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge.
Sergei Kirov
From 1926 to 1929, he enjoyed great power as General Secretary of the Comintern’s executive committee. However, Stalin’s decision to proceed with collectivization drove the two men apart, and Bukharin was expelled from the Politburo in 1929.
Nikolai Bukharin
Was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party.
Benito Mussolini
During Lenin’s illness, he was appointed as the acting President of the Council of People’s Commissars and Politburo chairman. Together with Zinoviev and Joseph Stalin, he formed a ruling and played a key role in the marginalization of Trotsky.
Lev Kamenev
On 31 August 1935, it was reported that he had mined a record 102 tonnes of coal in 5 hours and 45 minutes (14 times his quota).
Alexie Stakhonov
Was born in Abruzzi in 1863. A prolific and charismatic writer — considered by many the greatest Italian poet since Dante — he both exemplified and promoted the most extreme strain of turn-of-the-century Italian nationalism.
Gabriele D’Anunzio
Was an Italian socialist politician. On 30 May 1924, he openly spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Fascists committed fraud in the recently held elections and denounced the violence they used to gain votes. Eleven days later he was kidnapped and killed by Fascists.
Giacomo Matteotti
Was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist, and politician. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Trotskyism. The right hand of Lenin, once a Menshevik.
Leon Trotsky
Worked with Kamenev to bring down Trotsky. He was tried alongside Lev Kamenev; both were found guilty and sentenced to death. On August 25, 1936, he was executed by the NKVD. The Trial of the Sixteen marked an important turning point in Soviet history as it signaled the beginning of the Great Purge.
Grigory Zinoviev
Monarch of Italy, and the man that made Mussolini the prime minister of Italy.
Victor Emmanuel III
Gasplan
5 Year Plans
Show Trials
Kulaks
