history

Question 1

key terminology : means to resign from power

Answer 1

abdicate

Question 2

whats the government that was in charge at the time

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provisional government/commitee

Question 3

opposite of capatalism

Answer 3

socialism

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the terror initated by stalin

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great terror and the purges

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what is a serf

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a peasant

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what is the proletariat

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the working class

Question 7

OGPU

Answer 7

the intelligence service and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934.

Question 8

who were the NKVD

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the secret police (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs)

Question 9

what was the NEP

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the new economic policy / economic policy of the government of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1928

Question 10

who were the nepmen

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were business people in the early Soviet Union, who took advantage of the opportunities for private trade

Question 11

what does mutiny mean

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an open rebellion against the proper authorities

Question 12

who were the military revolutionary commitee

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the name for military organs created by the Bolsheviks under the soviets in preparation for the October Revolution

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mensheviks definiton

Answer 13

believe that russia is not ready for revolution

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what is marxism

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Marxism is a social, political, and economic philosophy named after Karl Marx.

Question 15

who were kulaks

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better off peasants who owned enough land to make a reasonable living

Question 16

what were gulags

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system of labour camps controlled by the soviet union

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what was gosplan

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Gosplan, central board that supervised various aspects of the planned economy of the Soviet Union

Question 18

what was the five year plans initiated by stalin

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first year plan 1928-1932 , industry, collectivisation, famine

second year plan 1933-1938 water, rail transport and communication

third year plan: 1938-1941 consumer goods, plan changed when invaded in 1941 weapons produced instead

Question 19

constituent assembly

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is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution.

Question 20

what is a commune?

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a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities.

Question 21

what is commissar

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an official of the Communist Party

Question 22

what is a comintern

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as an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism

Question 23

what is collectivisation?

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collectivisation is the process of combining resources together to make it collected and shared rather than from one

Question 24

what is a collective farm?

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small farms would be combined into larger state run farms

Question 25

civil war

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war on ovethrowing bolsheviks

reds- bolsheviks fought whites

whites- russia nationalists and monarchists fought reds

greens- armed peasants and anarchists who fought reds and whites

Question 26

censorship in russia

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1920s propaganda art in realism

stalin aimed to present soviet union as a happy thriving community through;

• propaganda in the 1920s: advocating realism art in russia
• censorship full control on images and data being released making it so edited to portray russia as thriving

Question 27

capatalism

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an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state

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bolsheviks

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group/party with an aim to create a group of professional revolutionaries leader is lenin

Question 29

autocracy

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a system of government by one person with absolute power.

Question 30

all russian congress of soviets

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an assembly of representatives of local councils. In theory, it was the supreme power of the Soviet State

Congress of Soviets created laws and elected the Council of People’s Commissars, which was the government

Question 31

what were the purges

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initiated by stalin the great terror to remove enemies of the poeple

Question 32

the red army

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The Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army,

Question 33

revolution

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russias revolutions : feb revolution, july days, kornilov affair, october etc…

Question 34

romanov dynasty

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The House of Romanov was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after the Tsarina,

Question 35

russification

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the policy of enforcing Russian culture on the vast numbers of ethnic minorities

Question 36

show trials

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fake evidene/false trials that were held by stalin accusing political and army generals of false equations used as a distraction strategy and show them as ‘enemy of the people’

Question 37

socialism

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a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

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soviet

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soviet (councils) were political organizations and governmental bodies of the late Russian Empire

Question 39

stakhanovites

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stakhanov son of peasant who worked in the coal mines, august 1935 he had mined 102 tonnes of coal in one night,

started stakhanovite movement workers encouraged to copy stakhanov and overfufil targets

Question 40

supreme soviet

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Supreme Soviet served as the collective head of state of its republic.

Question 41

war communism

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War communism or military communism was the economic and political system that existed in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War