Russia Quiz Flashcards
What is a czar
A Russian emperor
Who was the first to call himself a czar
Ivan III
Who were the boyars
Russia’s landowning nobility
Who was Ivan the Terrible
Ivan IV
Who were The Romanovs
A family that came to power after Fyodor’s death in 1613
What were the oprichina
A territory under Ivan the terrible’s control
Who was Karl Marx
A radical 19th century philosopher came up with Marxism
What is socialism
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
Who was Nicholas II
A czar of russia who was overthrown in 1917, last emperor of Russia
Vladimir llinch Lenin
A Russian serf who was exiled to Switzerland he was mad about Russia’s biased legal system
Communism
an economic or political suite in which the state or community owns all property and means of productions and all citizens share the wealth
Bloody Sunday
The massacre in St. Petersburg russia of peaceful protesters who marched to present a list of demands to the czar
Civil liberties
Personal freedoms that are protected by law from the actions of the government
The Duma
Elected national legislature agreed to by Nicholas the second in October 1905
Serfs
A peasant farmer bound to the land w no political representation or social rights
Marxism
Karl Marx’s theories about revolution leading to a society without a need for goverment
Leninism
Lenin’s adaptation of Marxism for russia
Bourgenise
A class of owners who took advantage of the working class
Revolution of 1905
A large amount of St. Petersburg workers that went to the czars palace to five him a list of demands 130 ish were killed.
Soviet’s
Councils run by workers in Russia’s factories
The Bolshevik’s
A political party led by Lenin in 1903
Febuary revolution
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
Dual power
A time when provisional gov attempted to rule russia entirely while the working class was loyal to Petrograd soviets
October revolution
The Soviet’s attempted to overthrow the political gov but the Mensheviks didn’t help and the Bolshevik’s were a minority