GOOD LUCK BIG BOY Flashcards
Battle of Mukden:
February 1905, 90,000 deaths
Kerensky: (Kornlilov)
He emerged as a compromised and ineffectual leader who had lost the respect of the people.
(Kornilov), (Red Guards):
It enabled the Bolshevik’s Red Guards to effectively organise the militias and expand.
Wade (OR):
The Bolsheviks “became the political alternative for the disappointed and disenchanted”
Ship on Winter’s Palace:
Aurora
Polish-Soviet War:
1920 to 1921
Treaty of Riga:
18 March 1921
Treaty of Riga consequences:
Thirty million roubles
Execution of Tsar:
17 July 1918
Trotsky on Tsar execution:
“The execution of the Tsar was needed to frighten and horrify … our own ranks.”
Kollontai’s faction:
The Workers Opposition
Ella Shistyer (1920’s Student):
“The revolution gave me the right to feel equal to any man”
Abortion Decree:
1920
Peasant saying:
“a baba (peasant wife) is not a human being”
Acton:
“In key areas, the Bolsheviks compromised their ideals to stay in power: