russian rev

Question 1

Proletariot

Answer 1

growing class of factory and railroad workers

Question 2

duma

Answer 2

elected national legeslature in russia

Question 3

soviet

Answer 3

a council of workers and soldiers

Question 4

bolshevik

Answer 4

Lenin’s group that led the revolution

Question 5

what did bolshevik mean

Answer 5

majority

Question 6

communism

Answer 6

a form of govt made by karl marx that said class struggle was inevitable and would lead to a classless society in which all of the community would own property

Question 7

“reds”

Answer 7

communists

Question 8

“whites”

Answer 8

counter revolutionaries

Question 9

commissars

Answer 9

communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principals and ensure party loyalty

Question 10

cheka

Answer 10

secret police force

Question 11

command economy

Answer 11

developed by the soviet union, govt officials made all the basic economic decisions

Question 12

collectives

Answer 12

large farms owned and opertated by peasants as a group

Question 13

kulaks

Answer 13

wealthy farmers

Question 14

gulag

Answer 14

a system of brutal labor camps where many died

Question 15

Tolitarian state

Answer 15

govt with a one party dictatorship that regulares every aspect of citizins lives

Question 16

socialist realism

Answer 16

an art showing soviet life positively

Question 17

Czar nicholas

Answer 17

a weak ruler who abdicatd, and was executed while in house arrest

Question 18

Czarina alexandra

Answer 18

left the country with duma, was close with Rasputin, was executed with her family

Question 19

Lenin

Answer 19

exiled to Siberia, befriends Trotsky, came to russia with the germans help and said he would bring “peace, land and bread” when he died his body was put on display

Question 20

rasputin

Answer 20

believed to be magical after he healed czarinas kid and developed a close relationship with the czarina. He was brought to dinner by the nobles where they killed him 3 times

Question 21

Kerensky

Answer 21

kept russia in the war for too long

Question 22

Trotsky

Answer 22

in charge of revolutionary army

Question 23

Stalin

Answer 23

exiled to sieberia, had a lot of power and went crazy

Question 24

treaty of brest lotvisk

Answer 24

russia gave up a large portion of land to germany

Question 25

war communism

Answer 25

communists took over mines railroads and factorys . Peasants had to give crops to the army and peasant laborors were drafted into war

Question 26

new economic policy

Answer 26

the state controlled banks, foreign trade and large industries. “compramise with capatisism”

Question 27

5 year plans (stalins)

Answer 27

a goal to increase production in farms, building more industries and improving transportation. It was unsuccessful

Question 28

agricultural collectivization

Answer 28

large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group. peasants resisted by burning crops and killing farm animals and they got sent to labor camps

Question 29

great purge

Answer 29

stalins obsessive fears led him to crack down on people who might betray him. He has show trials and killed a large portion of his army.

Question 30

who was the leader of the duma

Answer 30

alexnder kerensky

Question 31

why were the czar and czarinas and their kids killed

Answer 31

to stop counter revolutionary action

Question 32

red scare

Answer 32

britain temporarily broke off relationships with the soviet union