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Whose slogan is “Land, peace, and bread”

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Lenin and Bolsheviks

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Lenin: Red or White?

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Red

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Lenin transformed autocratic Czarist rule to what?

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Dictatorial rule by Communism

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Dictatorship of the Proletariat is a characteristic of which political belief?

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Marxism
Leninism

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Lenin’s NEP

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Enforced capitalism

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Stalin’s five year plans and collectivization

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Increase in industrial production
Collectivization: land taken from private owners to have them work in large farms

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Who became scrapegoats for Stalin?

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Kulaks: Prosperous land-owning peasants

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Holodomor: What and Puprose

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Genocide of Ukranians during the famine of 1932-1933
Purpose: Stalin wanted to eliminate Ukranian nationalism

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9
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Great Purge: Dates and Purpose

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1936-1938
Political repression and remove opposition

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10
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Gulags

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Forced labour camps (death camps)

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General Secretary structure of Soviet Union for LENIN (2)

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  1. Council of People’s Commissars
  2. Secretariat
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1922, what was feature of government?

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Lenin’s one-party Leninist state

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“Democratic Centralism”

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Developed by Lenin: TRUE democracy lied in obedience to authority

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How did Lenin get rid of SR’s (Social Revolutionaries?)

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Purges and Show Trials

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Comintern

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The Commmunist international: formed in 1919 to revolutionize the world

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Why was the Comintern/ Third International abandoned?

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Grew from collapse of capitalism of WW1: world revolution failed

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17
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Where did Stalin’s ‘socialism in one country“ one from?

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Sprang from the defeat of revolutionary internationalism on which the Comintern was founded

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18
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Stalin’s position as Peopel’s Commisssar for Nationalities (1917)

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In charge of officials in many regions and republics; understood minorities

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19
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Liaison Officer betweeen Politburo and Orburo

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Monitor Party’s policy and personnel

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Patronage

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Providing governmental approval and extending privileges to selected individuals

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21
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The government

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Council of Commissars

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The party

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Politburo

23
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Lenin enrolment

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CPSU membership rose from 340 000 to 600 000

24
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Stalin joined unofficial triumvirate with which two peoples (that he would soon abandon?)

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Kamenev and Zinoviev

25
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Trotsky’s hanicaps

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  • Jew
  • high intellectualism made him appear as outsider
  • dangerously ambitious
  • became member pretty recent (1917)
26
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War Communism: Who’s policy and three points

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Lenin’s policy
- brought agriculture under control
- seized grain stocks from peasants
- prohibited farming for profit

27
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Was War Communism effective?

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No. Peasants revolted and hunger intensified

28
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How did Stalin undermine Trotsky?

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Undermined Trotsky’s attitude towards NEP:
To continue with NEP is to place Nepmen interests above Revolution

29
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Nepmen

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Profiteers under NEP to enrich themselves

30
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Who’s policy is Permanent Revolution? What is it?

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Trotsky
- revolution in Russia would cause worldwide revolution of the proletariat
- USSR could not survive a lonely revolution

31
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WHo’s policy is SOcialism in one country? What is it?

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Stalin
- overcome present agricultural problems
- proceed to build modern state
- survival is PRIORITY

32
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‘New opposition’: what is it?

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Opposition from Triumvirate: Kamenev and Zinoviev

33
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Trotsky fought back using what idea?

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BUreaucratization
Secretariat was growing in power, so he ordered Paty democracy to fight back. FAILED: RUSSIA WAS ORIGINALLY A BUREAUCRATIC STATE

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Why did right opposition collapse? (3)

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  • Ideas: did not play on fear
  • Weak orgniazation
  • lack of support
35
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What is the second revolution?

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Revolution from above: turning away from proletariat, Stalin now commanded economy from above

36
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Secret Police Names Order

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Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, KGB

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Consequences of collectivization

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  • social upheaval
  • starvation
  • conspiracy of silence
38
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Gosplan

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Soviet state economic planning agency: drew quotas for Five Year Plans

39
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Problem with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd FYP’s

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  • lack of coordination: over and under production in different places
  • exaggerated numbers
40
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Ryutin affair

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1932: Ryutin, right communist, published attack on Stalin. Were expelled from party

41
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What did Stalin do after the death of Kirov (likely killed by Stalin?)

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Created Decree Against Terrorist Acts
- purge of party

42
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Purge of the party was replaced with who?

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People part of the Stalin Enrolment

43
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The Great Fatherland War

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Adopted by Soviet Union to describe WW2

44
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Konsomol

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The Soviet Communist Union of YOUTH (parallel to Hitler youth)

45
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Lenin’s view on women

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Made divorce easier
Liberate women from bondage of children

46
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Stalin’s Great Retreat: What?

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Policy which promoted traditional family values

47
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Stalin’s View on international Munich agreement

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Believed that it was a gatherment of anti-Soviet nations of Europe, intending to give Germany a free hand to attack a diplomatically isolated USSR.

48
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Success or failure: Stalin reached out for agreement between France and Britain?

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Failure; F and G.B. Were indifferent

49
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Result of Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941

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Soviet regained all lost territories in WW1

50
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Treaty of Rapallo

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Provided German forces with training grounds for USSR in return for trading rights in Germany

51
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Constitutent assembly

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After October Rev, Lenin promised to hold elections for parliament. CA CLOSED AFTER 1 DAY

52
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Kronstadt Revolt 1921

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War communism made Lenin unpopular

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