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Who were the Serfs? What could happen to them?

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Labour workers owned by masters

Bought or sold

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What were Mirs?

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Village communes where peasants lived and worked

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What is autocracy?

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Total power by one person

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What is a Tsar?

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Emperor of Russia

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What was the Orthodox Church?

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Official state religion of Tsarist Russia

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What was conscription?

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Forced service, usually for 25 years

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What was Serfdom?

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Where peasants are property of their masters

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What is Emancipation?

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Freedom

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What was the Bureaucracy?

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Civil servants who undertake administrative tasks

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What is a Mortgage?

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Money borrowed against a form of security

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Who were the Westernisers?

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Russian intellectuals who believed Russia should follow Western lines

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Who were the Slavophiles?

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Russian intellectuals who believe Russia should seek a basis under tradition

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Who were the Intellectuals?

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Educated elite often critical of the Tsarist regime

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What/When was the Crimean War?

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Where Russia were up against Britain, France and Turkey

1853-56

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15
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What does radical mean?

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Fundamental change

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What is the Zemstva? When were they set up?

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Elected local government assemblies

1864

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What is a Liberal?

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Someone who wanted more personal and economic freedom

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18
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What was St Petersburg?

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Capital of Russia (later Petrograd and Leningrad)

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What was the Ohkrana?

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Third Section replacement

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What was reaction?

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Backwards behaviour returning to former ways

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21
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Who were the Land Captains?

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Nobles with extensive local powers

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What is a pogrom?

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Attack on Jews

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What is Russification?

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Imposing Russian culture and language on ethnic minorities

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What is anti-semitism?

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Hatred towards Jews

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Who were the ethnic minorities?

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Primarily Poles, Finns, Ukrainians and Jews

26
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What are Import Tariffs?

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Money paid when goods are brought into Russia

27
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Who were Kadets?

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Constitutional Democratic Party members

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What was universal suffrage?

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Vote for all people

29
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Who were Octobrists?

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Moderate Conservative party

30
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Who were the Bolshevik Party? Who led them?

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A faction broken away from the Social Democratic Working Party
Lenin

31
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What were “civil rights”?

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Personal rights

32
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What was the Socialist Revolutionary Party? What did it support?

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Populist party founded in 1901

Land redistribution

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What was the Social Democratic Workers’ Party? What 2 factions did this party later split into?

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Marxist party founded in 1898

Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

34
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What does “proletarian” mean?

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Exploited working-class member

35
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What were Mensheviks?

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Marxists

36
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What was the Central Committee?

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Body elected by party congress

37
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What was Kronstadt?

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St Petersburg’s main seaport

38
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What is meant by “dual power”?

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Power-sharing between the Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet

39
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What is a constituent assembly?

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A governing body who draw up a new constitution

40
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Who were the Red Guards?

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Bolshevik armed forces

41
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What is a mandate?

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Authority to carry out a policy

42
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What was the Cheka?

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Bolshevik secret police

43
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Who are Commissars?

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Socialist ministers

44
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What was Sovnarkom?

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Soviet Council of People’s Commissars

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What is the Politburo?

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The highest policy-making body in the Soviet Union

46
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What is meant by a “purge”?

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“A cleaning out of impurities”

47
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What was Stakhanovite?

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A movement named after a miner with record-breaking amounts of coal in 1935

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What was the Komsomol?

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Young Communist organisation

49
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What was the NKVD?

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Secret police force that succeeded the Cheka

50
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What was the Kolkhoz?

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Main collective farm of Russia

51
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What was the Nomenklatura?

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Privileged elite who ran the party machine

52
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What was the Cold War?

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Tension between the US and Soviet Union post-WW2

53
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What was Samizdat?

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Secret publication of banned literature

54
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What was Burzhui?

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Abusive term against anti-Communists

55
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What was a constitutional monarchy?

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Where the ruler’s power is limited by an elected assembly

56
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What was Marxism?

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A political ideology that believes all history is driven by economic forces which create class struggles

57
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What was a Narodnik?

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Russian name for a populist

58
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What were show trials?

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Propagandist trials held for political purposes

59
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What was a socialist?

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Someone who believes factory and land should belong to the people

60
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What was a Soviet?

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An elected council that controlled factories or local areas

61
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What were trade unions?

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Organisations that represent workers in negotiations

62
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What was the Winter Palace? Where is it located?

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Home of the Tsar

St Petersburg

A-Level History: Tsarist And Communist Russia - 1855-1964 (39 decks)

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