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In the Spring; Came before the October uprising; was said to have been a spontaneous uprising

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February/March Revolution

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In the Fall; Where the Russian provisional government was overthrown by the party under Vladimir Lenin (Bolsheviks); coup de tat

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October/Bolshevik Revolution

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Document that gave freedom for people of all classes on newspapers

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Lenin’s Decree on the Press

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Document that said people who own property should work on their property; caused nobility to lose their property to peasants

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Lenin’s Decree on Land

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Document that created the Cheka and murdered a lot of peasants who were thought to be hoarding resources

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Lenin’s Decree Giving the Food Commissariat Extraordinary Powers to Combat Village Bourgeoisie Who Were Concealing and Speculating on Grain Reserves

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Document that said people had to go to the government to get a divorce, not the church

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Decree on the Dissolution of Marriage

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Document that said certificates of couple unity and other documents would be under the government, not the church

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Decree on Civic Marriages, on Children, and on the Introduction of Books or Records

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Big document that officially divided the government and education of Russia from religious establishments

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Lenin’s Decree of the Separation of the Church from the State and the Schools from the Church

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Document that created ruling bodies for poor people and factory employees

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Lenin’s Decree on Establishment of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government

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Document that disbanded the Duma

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Lenin’s Decree on the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly

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The Duma is an example; was a non-responsive government; another name for constituent assembly

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Provisional Government

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Another name for provisional government; the duma was an example; non responsive government

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Constituent Assembly

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News sources that were controlled by the Bolshevik government

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Pravda and Investia

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Second Prime Minister of Russian provisional government; overthrown by Lenin

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Alexander Kerensky

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Family that the Red Army wanted to murder because they were associated with the Tsar

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The Romanovs

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Former overthrown leader of Russia; part of the Romanovs

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Czar Nicholas II

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Girl that tried to assassinate Lenin

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Fanya Kaplan

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Bolshevik revolutionary leader who was assassinated

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Moisei Uritzky

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Train tracks that Czechoslovakians took over while going back home from WWI

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Trans-Siberian Railway

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Goes against the Reds; largely Mensheviks, but very split up in purpose/nationalism/ethnicity

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White Army

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People who were part of the party under Vladimir Lenin/ Communists

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Bolsheviks

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Party that was formed under Marxist beliefs who were similar the Bolsheviks

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Mensheviks

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Party that won in the election against the Bolsheviks; but the Bolsheviks deemed themselves as the winners anyway

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Social Revolutionaries

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A party made of people mainly the nobility who were for Nicholas II; against the Bolsheviks

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Tsarists

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Head of the Bolsheviks; wrote many decrees

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Vladimir Lenin

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Document between Russia and Central Powers to allow Russia to leave WWI

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Treaty of Brest-Litvosk

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Nomadic peoples who like the tsar because he left them alone; part of the White army; fierce soldiers

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Cossacks

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Soldier force made up of Bolsheviks and poor people

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Worker Peasant Red Army

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Program in a country that forced you to go to war

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Conscription

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After they took TransSiberian RR these people revolted; another word for revolted

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Czech Uprising

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Russian group that were really aggressive and killed many people and had unlimited power against peasants who were suspected of hoarding grain

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Checka

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Guy with Last name of Anton who headed the South Russian White Army; had an army called Kornilov

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Deniken

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Guy who had Gold; Leader of eastern white army; turned over to the Bolsheviks by the Czechs;

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Alexander Kolchack

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Leader of North West White Army; couldn’t get their support;

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Nikoli Yudenich

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Leader of the Red Guard or the Worker-Peasant Bolshevik Army

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Trotsky

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Precious metal that belonged to the leader of the East White Army

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Kolchak’s Gold

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Soldier force of Committee Assembly of Social Revolutionaries; part of White Eastern Army

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Komuch People’s Army

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Horrible event when Kolchack murders a lot of Social Revolutionaries; opposite of Red Army

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White Terror

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Massacre of ethnic group like Armenian genocide or holocaust

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Pogroms

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This occurred when the Bolsheviks nationalized everything while they were under a period of attack; everyone had an equal share of everything

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War Communism

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Another name for “Operation Polar Bear”; European and Western countries wanted to reopen the eastern front

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Archangel Expedition

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Horrible event where Bolsheviks killed off a lot of people after they took over

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Red Terror

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Unsuccessful uprise against the Bolsheviks

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Kronstadt Rebellion

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No food; affected Bolshevik Russia the most during their civil war

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1921 Famine

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Document by Lenin after the Civil war; another name called “state capitalism”

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New Economic Policy

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Russian farmers who were better off than peasants but less than the nobles

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Kulaks

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Event where there was an imbalance of the farming economy

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Scissors Crisis

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First people on a land

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Pioneers

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Soviet Youth Organization; brain washed kids into communism

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Komsomols

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Soviet experimental artistic institution

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Proletcult

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Official censorship organization in Soviet Russia

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Main Administration for Affairs of Literature and Publishing Houses

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Main religious denomination in Soviet Russia

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Orthodox Church

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Anti religious, atheist political group

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Union of the Militant Godless

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Another name for Russia; what the acronym stands for

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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Country that borders on Russia

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Ukraine

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Document between Germany and Russia after Brest-Litvosk saying that renounced what they said

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Treaty of Rapallo

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Executive committee for communist political parties by Bolsheviks

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Politburo

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Lenin did this to avoid parties separating even further

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Ban on Factions

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Port city in Soviet Russia

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Murmansk

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Biggest port in Russia

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Vladivostok

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Supreme governing body of the USSR

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Congress of Soviets

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