Russia Quiz Flashcards

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What is a czar

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A Russian emperor

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Who was the first to call himself a czar

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Ivan III

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3
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Who were the boyars

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Russia’s landowning nobility

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Who was Ivan the Terrible

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Ivan IV

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Who were The Romanovs

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A family that came to power after Fyodor’s death in 1613

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What were the oprichina

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A territory under Ivan the terrible’s control

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Who was Karl Marx

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A radical 19th century philosopher came up with Marxism

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What is socialism

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An economic system in which a nation’s land, mayoral resources, industries, or other means of production are owned collectivity or controlled by the state

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Who was Nicholas II

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A czar of russia who was overthrown in 1917, last emperor of Russia

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Vladimir llinch Lenin

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A Russian serf who was exiled to Switzerland he was mad about Russia’s biased legal system

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Communism

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an economic or political suite in which the state or community owns all property and means of productions and all citizens share the wealth

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Bloody Sunday

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The massacre in St. Petersburg russia of peaceful protesters who marched to present a list of demands to the czar

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Civil liberties

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Personal freedoms that are protected by law from the actions of the government

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14
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The Duma

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Elected national legislature agreed to by Nicholas the second in October 1905

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Serfs

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A peasant farmer bound to the land w no political representation or social rights

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Marxism

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Karl Marx’s theories about revolution leading to a society without a need for goverment

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Leninism

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Lenin’s adaptation of Marxism for russia

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Bourgenise

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A class of owners who took advantage of the working class

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Revolution of 1905

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A large amount of St. Petersburg workers that went to the czars palace to five him a list of demands 130 ish were killed.

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Soviet’s

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Councils run by workers in Russia’s factories

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The Bolshevik’s

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A political party led by Lenin in 1903

22
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Febuary revolution

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February 24th 1917 Petrograd female factory workers mad over food shortages protested in a bread line, a few days later almost all factory workers in the area joined

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Dual power

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A time when provisional gov attempted to rule russia entirely while the working class was loyal to Petrograd soviets

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October revolution

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The Soviet’s attempted to overthrow the political gov but the Mensheviks didn’t help and the Bolshevik’s were a minority

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Reds vs whites
A war between the provisional goverment and the Bolshevik’s who supported monarchs
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USSR
In 1922 the Bolsheviks defeated the whites and rose to power and formed the union of Soviet socialist republic
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NEP
Called the New Economic Policy, a policy made by Lenin that prevented pheasants from revolting it included taxes and allowed for privately owned buisnesses
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why was the NEP made
So the pheasants did’t start a revolution and the whole process would have to start over