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Russia 2 Flashcards

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Hopes for Revolution

Bessie Beatty

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The Revolution was to every man the sum of his desires

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October Revolution

Lynch

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The Bolsheviks did not inherit a ship of state, they took over a derelict hulk

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Bolsheviks Decrees

Service

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Designed to inspire, to excite, to instigate

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CHEKA

Lenin

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Urgent measures are needed to fight the counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs

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Dissolution of Constituent Assembly

Lenin

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Trust in the mood but don’t forget your rifles

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CHEKA

Pipes

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The machine gun became for them the principal instrument of political persuasion

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CHEKA

Dzerzhinsky

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Our revolution is in danger. Do not concern yourselves with the forms of revolutionary justice.

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Civil War

Lenin

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The proletarian slogan must be: Civil War!

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CHEKA

Lynch

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It is doubtful even without the threat of civil war and organised opposition that Bolshevism could have developed other than as an oppressive system

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CHEKA

Pipes

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Terror may have saved communism but it corroded its soul

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CHEKA

Service

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Overkilling was better than running the risk of being overthrown

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Civil War

Figes

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They made no real effort to develop policies that might appeal to the peasants or the national minorities although support of both were essential

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Civil War

Malone

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The Whites had no common unity of purpose

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War Communism

Pipes

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Instead of raising productivity to unprecedented heights, War Communism had reduced it to levels that threatened Russia’s very survival

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Kronstadt Uprising

Fitzpatrick

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The Kronstadt Uprising was a symbolic parting of the ways between the working class and the Bolshevik party

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Threats to Regime

Lenin

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The Soviet Republic is surrounded by enemies. But it will defeat its enemies both external and internal

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17
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NEP

Lenin

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What is needed now is an economic breathing spell

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NEP

Malone

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Bolshevik economic planning can be considered merely a fragmented response to a series of desperate situations

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NEP

Ryan

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A number of communists were unhappy with what they saw as a break with true revolutionary strategy and a betrayal of the proletariat

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Scissor Crisis

Malone

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The scissors opened and never closed

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The Terror

Figes

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The Terror was a war by the regime against the whole of society - a means of terrorising it into submission

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War Communism

?

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We own the land but the grain belongs to you

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Kronstadt Uprising

Trotsky

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Reddest of the red

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Kronstadt Uprising

Kronstadt Sailors

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The sickle and the hammer - have actually been replaced..with the bayonet and the barred window.

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Woman’s Rights

Ella Shistyer

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The Revolution gave me the right to feel equal to any man

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Lenin’s Death

?

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Lenin has died- but Leninism lives!

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Reversion

Pipes

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The system marked a reversion to the autocratic practices of tsarist Russia.

28
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Civil War

Fitzpatrick

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On the crucial issue of land, the Bolsheviks were the lesser evil

29
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Army Discipline

Trotsky

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Every scoundrel who incites anyone to retreat, to desert or not to fulfil a military order will be shot

30
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Civil War

CPSU

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They were fighting on the side of the people and for a good cause

31
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Civil War

Pipes

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It had nothing to do with being more appealing to the people

32
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Civil War

Figes

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They couldn’t convince people

33
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The Terror

Hill

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The terror came later (in 1918) and was a direct consequence of allied military intervention

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The Terror

Figes

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The Bolsheviks were forced to turn increasingly to terror to silence their political critics and subjugate a society they could not control by other means

35
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Bolsheviks

Lenin

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The Soviet Revolutionary Republic will triumph no matter what the cost

36
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War Communism

Figes

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Soviet Power in the much of the countryside had virtually ceased to exist

37
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NEP

Official History

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Wisdom and farsightedness of Lenin’s policy

38
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Peasant Uprisings

Lenin

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far more dangerous than all of the Denikins, Yudeniches and Kolchaks put together

39
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NEP

CPSU

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change from an assault of the fortress to the slower method of siege

40
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Decrees

Figes

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[conquer the] world with a red pencil in one hand and a gun in the other

41
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NEP

Hill

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In order to build socialism it was first necessary for the Communist Party to raise Russia to the economic and cultural level of western capitalism.

42
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Crampton

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It was a device, the Bolsheviks admitted, to trade space for time, the time which they needed to consolidate their revolutionary rule.

43
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War Communism

Lenin

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Ruthless war on the kulaks. Death to the kulaks.

44
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The Terror

Latsis, CHEKA

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We are not waging war against individual persons. We are exterminating the bourgeois as a class.

45
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Polish-Soviet War

Fitzpatrick

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The Bolsheviks’ dilemma…was that policies of proletarian internationalism in practice had a disconcerting similarity to the policies of old-style Russian imperialism.

46
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Polish-Soviet War

Figes

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on the contrary a deterrent to the West against invading Russia

47
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Consequences

Hill

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The revolutionary process abolished a regime of despair and created a new world of hope.

48
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Consequences

Lynch

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1917 did not mark a complete break with the past. Rather it was the replacement of one form of state-authoritarianism with another.

49
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Consequences

Pipes

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the Communist regime was a monumental failure

50
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Consequences

Figes

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The experiment went horribly wrong, not so much because of the malice of its leaders, … but because the ideas themselves were impossible.

51
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Figes - NEP

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It was a desperate bid to stem the tide of this popular revolution

52
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Economic Failure

Fitzpatrick

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Revolutionaries are unrealistic and inexperienced in government

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