Russian Civil War Terms Flashcards
February/March Revolution
In the Spring; Came before the October Revolution; was said to have been a spontaneous uprising
October/Bolshevik Revolution
In the Fall; Where the Russian provisional government was overthrown by the party under Vladimir Lenin; coup de tat
Lenin’s Decree on the Press
Document that censored the media and press in SOviet Russia
Lenin’s Decree on Land
Document that said people who own property should work on their property; caused nobility to lose their property to peasants
Lenin’s Decree Giving the Food Commissariat Extraordinary Powers to Combat Village Bourgeoisie Who Were Concealing and Speculating on Grain Reserves
Document that created the Cheka and murdered a lot of peasants who were thought to be hoarding resources
Decree on the Dissolution of Marriage
Document that said people had to go to the government to get a divorce, not the church
Decree on Civic Marriages, on Children, and on the Introduction of Books or Records
Document that said certificates of couple unity and other documents would be under the government, not the church
Lenin’s Decree of the Separation of the Church from the State and the Schools from the Church
Big document that officially divided the government and education of Russia from religious establishments
Lenin’s Decree on Establishment of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government
Document that created ruling bodies for poor people and factory employees
Lenin’s Decree on the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly
Document that disbanded the Duma
Provisional Government
The Duma is an example; was a non-responsive government; another name for constituent assembly
Constituent Assembly
Another name for provisional government; the duma was an example; non responsive government
Pravda and Investia
News sources that were controlled by the Bolshevik government
Alexander Kerensky
Famous guy that the Kerenkis were named after
The Romanovs
Family that the Red Army wanted to murder because they were associated with the Tsar
Czar Nicholas II
Former overthrown leader of Russia; part of the Romanovs
Fanya Kaplan
Girl that tried to assassinate Lenin
Moisei Uritzky
Bolshevik revolutionary leader who was assassinated
Trans-Siberian Railway
Train tracks that Czechoslovakians took over while going back home from WWI
White Army
Army that goes against the Red Army;
Bolsheviks
People who were part of the party under Vladimir Lenin
Mensheviks
Party that was formed under Marxist beliefs and similar to the Bolshevik
Social Revolutionaries
Party that won in the election against the Bolsheviks; but the Bolsheviks deemed themselves as the winners anyway
Tsarists
A party made of people mainly the nobility who were for Nicholas II; against the Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin
Head of the Bolsheviks; wrote many decrees
Treaty of Brest-Litvosk
Document between Russia and Central Powers to allow Russia to leave WWI
Cossacks
Nomadic peoples who like the tsar because he left them alone; part of the White army; fierce soldiers
Worker Peasant Red Army
Soldier force made up of Bolsheviks and poor people
Conscription
Program in a country that forced you to go to war
Czech Uprising
After they took TransSiberian RR these people revolted; another word for revolted
Checka
Lenin’s Police force
Deniken
Guy with Last name of Anton who headed the South Russian White Army; had an army called Kornilov
Alexander Kolchack
Guy who had Gold; Leader of eastern white army; turned over to the Bolsheviks by the Czechs;
Nikoli Yudenich
Leader of North West White Army; couldn’t get their support;
Trotsky
Leader of the Red Guard or the Worker-Peasant Bolshevik Army
Kolchak’s Gold
Precious metal that belonged to the leader of the East White Army
Komuch People’s Army
Soldier force of Committee Assembly of Social Revolutionaries; part of White Eastern Army
White Terror
Horrible event when Kolchack murders a lot of Social Revolutionaries; opposite of Red Army
Pogroms
Massacre of ethnic group like Armenian genocide or holocaust
War Communism
This occurred when the Bolsheviks nationalized everything while they were under a period of attack; everyone had an equal share of everything
Archangel Expedition
Another name for “Operation Polar Bear”; European and Western countries wanted to reopen the eastern front
Red Terror
Horrible event where Bolsheviks killed off a lot of people after they took over
Kronstadt Rebellion
Unsuccessful uprise against the BOlsheviks
1921 Famine
No food; affected Bolshevik Russia the most during their civil war
New Economic Policy
Document by Lenin after the Civil war; another name called “state capitalism”
Kulaks
Russian farmers who were better off than peasants but less than the nobles
Scissors Crisis
Event where there was an imbalance of the farming economy
Pioneers
First people on a land
Komsomols
Soviet Youth Organization; brain washed kids into communism
Proletcult
Soviet experimental artistic institution
Main Administration for Affairs of Literature and Publishing Houses
Official censorship organization in Soviet Russian
Orthodox Church
Main religious denomination in Soviet Russia
Union of the Militant Godless
Anti religious, atheist political group
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Another name for Soviet Russia; what USSR stands for
Ukraine
Country that borders on Russia
Treaty of Rapallo
Document between Germany and Russia after Brest-Litvosk saying that renounced what they said
Politburo
Executive committee for communist political parties by Bolsheviks
Ban on Factions
Lenin did this to avoid parties separating even further
Murmansk
Port city in Soviet Russia
Vladivostok
Biggest port in Russia
Congress of Soviets
Supreme governing body of the USSR
