Russian Revolution Flashcards
who eventually took over?
Stalin
Who was involved in the power struggle after Lenin’s death?
Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
Peasants were allowed to sell __________ and encouraged foreign investment
Surplus crops
Private ownership of small factories, farms, and businesses.
Private Profit
State
Central Government controlled major industries, farms, banks, and communication
New Economic Policy
State-controlled economy with a small-scale version of captialism
What was the new name given to Russia
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
War Communism
The taking over all the means of production (banks, mines, factories, railroads, and farms) by force - last 5 years
Check
a secret police force
Killed (rallying symbol)
1918 - After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Czar and his family had been taken prisoner
In April 1918 - they moved to Yekaterinburg a mining town in Siberia
Allies
The _____ and the United States sent military aid - the whites promised to defeat the Reds quickly and return Russia to World War I against the Central Powers
Whites
Opponents of the Bolsheviks, Tsarist Imperial Officers, Mensheviks, Democrats, Moderate Socialists, & Nationalist groups
Reds
Bolsheviks - ___ Bonners & Flag
Treaty of Brest-Litvosk
Germany & Russia - Russia no longer is fighting in World War I
Red Guards
November 1971 - Red Guards stormed the Winter Palace at Petrograd
“Peace, Bread & Land”
Peace - End to Russia’s involvement in World War I
Bread - Symbolic of food for everyone (Russia’s black breath)
Land - Ownership of land for peasants
Leon Trotsky
Another dynamic Marxist revolutionary Lenin’s right-hand man
Mensheviks
Russian Marxists: Broad-Based public support, parliamentary means
Bolsheviks
Majority Russian Marxists: A small group of committed revolutionaries, elite, radical change
Vladimir IIyich Ulyanov
Lenin
Soviet
Local councils or unions where people could voice their opinions. Workers, peasants, soldiers,…some degree of self-government
Provisional Government
A temporary government under the control of the Duma.
“Bread Bread”
Riots broke out over shortages of bread and fuel
Diasters on the battlefield…Food and fuel shortages
World War I dragged on and defeats continued. Prices climbed