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Nicholas I

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Tsar until 1855

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Alexander II

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Reformer until 1888

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Alexander III

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Reactionary until 1894

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Milyutin brothers

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Dmitry and Nikolai reformed military and emancipation

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What was the liberal party

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‘The party of St Petersburg progress’

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Witte

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Author of October manifesto, prime minister, and minister of finance

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Von Reutern

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growth rate up to 6%

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Vyshnegradsky

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Responsible for great famine. 18% rise in grain and 30% import tariff

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Grand Duke Sergei

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Assassinated in 1905

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Father Gapon

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Led 150,000 to the Winter Palace

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Pobedonostsev

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The black tsar

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Anna Akhmatova

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Poet who victim to the zhdanovschina

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Members of the Anti Party Group under Khrushchev

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Beria, Molotov, Malenkov

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Who were Khrushchev’s supporters that he rid himself of

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Bulganin and Zhukov

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Who was Bulganin

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Originally chairman of the council of ministers

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Who was Zhukov

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A popular and powerful war leader.

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What was Molotov made ambassador of

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Mongolia

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Who was Bukharin

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A right wing dude

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Who was Struve

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Chairman of the Union of liberation and wrote the Soviet manifesto

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Who was the spy for the SR

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Yevno Azef

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Plekanhov

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Leader of the Mensheviks

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The united opposition

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Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev

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Kirov

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Dude who died in 1934 and prevented Ryutin from being executed

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Ryutin

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Ryutin manifesto

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Bogolepov

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Assassinated and several thousand gathered

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Kerensky

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Prime minster of the Provisional government

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Zhdanov

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Groomed as Stalin’s successor and responsible for the Zhadanovshchina

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Who were the leaders of the NKVD

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YAGODA
YEZHOV
BERIA

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What did Yaogda develop

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Labour camps of over 50,000

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What did Yezhov do

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Kirov affair and death of Zinoviev and Kamenev

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BERIA

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freed 327,000 from Gulags and reviewed 1.5 million cases

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Alexandra

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Nicholas’s wife

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Mikhail Romas

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populist who set up store

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Young russia

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1862 burned 2000 shops

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