Russian Rev. and Stalin Flashcards
constitutional democrat
moderate reformers
wanted constitutional monarchy (DUMA)
Admired English
social revolutionaries
supported peasant rev.
believed in special rural socialism
replace tsar with elected government
fair land distribution
social democrats
revisionist socialist/new liberals
marxists
supported working class rev.
Bolsheviks and Menshiviks
bolsheviks
SD who believed the revolution should go forth immediately
mensheviks
SDs who believed that Russia had to industrialize before having the marxist revolution
how Lenin altered Marxism
NEP - allowed for some capitalism
No proletariat, intellegensia
Uses Russian nationalism
USSR
communist party -> General Secretary -> Politburo -> Central Committee
trotsky vs. stalin
stalin wanted russian communist rev, trotsky wanted europe wide communist rev.
order or tsars
Nicholas I
Alexander II - abolished serfdom, zemstvo (local gov)
Alexander III - reactionary, had Witte as finance
Nicholas II - DUMA/abdicates, son of Alexander III
Sergei Witte
finance minister during Alexander III who continued to industrialize
fundamental laws
said that tsar still had veto power for anything in the DUMA
bloody sunday
troops opened fire on peaceful civilians
Treaty of Brest Lovisk
Lenin got Russia out of war by losing 1/3 of population
cheka
secret police that supressed counter revolutionaries
russian civil war
red vs. white
red won