history Flashcards
key terminology : means to resign from power
abdicate
whats the government that was in charge at the time
provisional government/commitee
opposite of capatalism
socialism
the terror initated by stalin
great terror and the purges
what is a serf
a peasant
what is the proletariat
the working class
OGPU
the intelligence service and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934.
who were the NKVD
the secret police (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs)
what was the NEP
the new economic policy / economic policy of the government of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1928
who were the nepmen
were business people in the early Soviet Union, who took advantage of the opportunities for private trade
what does mutiny mean
an open rebellion against the proper authorities
who were the military revolutionary commitee
the name for military organs created by the Bolsheviks under the soviets in preparation for the October Revolution
mensheviks definiton
believe that russia is not ready for revolution
what is marxism
Marxism is a social, political, and economic philosophy named after Karl Marx.
who were kulaks
better off peasants who owned enough land to make a reasonable living
what were gulags
system of labour camps controlled by the soviet union
what was gosplan
Gosplan, central board that supervised various aspects of the planned economy of the Soviet Union
what was the five year plans initiated by stalin
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
constituent assembly
is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution.
what is a commune?
a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities.
what is commissar
an official of the Communist Party
what is a comintern
as an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism
what is collectivisation?
collectivisation is the process of combining resources together to make it collected and shared rather than from one
what is a collective farm?
small farms would be combined into larger state run farms
civil war
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
censorship in russia
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
capatalism
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
bolsheviks
group/party with an aim to create a group of professional revolutionaries leader is lenin
autocracy
a system of government by one person with absolute power.
all russian congress of soviets
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
what were the purges
initiated by stalin the great terror to remove enemies of the poeple
the red army
The Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army,
revolution
russias revolutions : feb revolution, july days, kornilov affair, october etc…
romanov dynasty
The House of Romanov was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after the Tsarina,
russification
the policy of enforcing Russian culture on the vast numbers of ethnic minorities
show trials
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’
socialism
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.
soviet
soviet (councils) were political organizations and governmental bodies of the late Russian Empire
stakhanovites
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
supreme soviet
Supreme Soviet served as the collective head of state of its republic.
war communism
War communism or military communism was the economic and political system that existed in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War
