russia pt 2

Question 1

What is the difference between Communism, Marxism, Leninism, and Socialism?

Answer 1

(SND)
Communism: In a Communist system, individual people do not own land, factories, or machinery. Instead, the government or the whole community owns these things. Everyone is supposed to share the wealth that they create.
Marxism: it’s a political and economic theory where society has no classes. Every person within the society works for a common good, and class struggle is theoretically gone.
Leninism: proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party

Question 2

What are “Bolsheviks?”

Answer 2

“Majority” political party that would eventually become the communist party of russia led by lenin it comprised many in the working (they promised them that they could own propterty)

Question 3

What was the slogan of the Bolsheviks?

Answer 3

Land peace bread

Question 4

What is a Gulag?

Answer 4

A work camp/prion, a jail in siberia for political prisoners, people who didnt agree with stalin.they just did manual labour everyday until they would die.

Question 5

Who was Lenin’s #2. What role did he play in the Revolution? What happened to him?

Answer 5

Leon Trotsky
Also studies marx
Militaty strategist
Leads red army to victory in the civil war
Would be exiled by stalin

Question 6

The assassination of the Czar took place under which communist leader?

Answer 6

Lenin

Question 7

Under which Soviet Leader did a massive famine in the Ukraine occur?

Answer 7

Stalin

Question 8

Why did the Soviet Union want “Satellite States”?

Answer 8

Stalin’s main motive for the creation of Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe was the need for security. When the war ended, the Soviet Union was the only Communist country in the world and Stalin believed that Western countries were bent on destroying it.Jan 2, 2018

Question 9

What was the Khrushchev thaw?

Answer 9

Dissidents wrote books, hold meetings, and publish.(not as harsh)

Question 10

What was the Brezhnev Doctrine and how did it affect Eastern Europe?

Answer 10

intervening in any satellite states that may be moving away from communism, use of force if necessary.

Question 11

Which Soviet Leader won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer 11

Gorbechov

Question 12

This person was responsible for the De-stalinization of the Soviet Union

Answer 12

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 13

Who is the father of the Russian Revolution?

Answer 13

Lenin

Question 14

What was Perestroika?

Answer 14

was a series of changes to the economy of the Soviet Union. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev started it in 1986.

Question 15

What was Glasnost?

Answer 15

(meaning "openness") policy reform.
Publicly acknowledges the abuses of Stalin
Rehabilitates victims of purges 
Greater degrees of media freedom 
Domestic / Social Reforms

Question 16

What were the “purges” and what was their purpose?

Answer 16

The political purge was primarily an effort by Stalin to eliminate challenge from past and potential opposition groups, including the left and right wings led by Leon Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin, respectively.

Question 17

What did “ethnic tension” have to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union?

Answer 17

Social and economic disparities, along with ethnic differences, created an upsurge in nationalism within groups and discrimination between groups.

Question 18

Which leader created Glasnost and Perestroika?

Answer 18

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 19

Define Cult of Personality and provide examples from Soviet Leaders?

Answer 19

Creating a godlike figure out of a politician to make like a cult.

Question 20

What is the term Marx used for the working class?

Answer 20

What is the term Marx used for the working class?

Question 21

Describe “consumer goods” in the Soviet Union.

Answer 21

They were very limited supplies.

Question 22

Who came to power after the August Coup?

Answer 22

Yelstin

Question 23

What is the name of the Soviet Spy agency?

Answer 23

KGB

Question 24

One of the better aspects of Soviet life was that everyone received an

Answer 24

__education____________

Question 25

What is a soviet?

Answer 25

Popularly elected general assemblies formed by bolsheviks

Question 26

Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?

Answer 26

Mikhail Gorbachev