Russian Revolution Flashcards
3 reasons Russia left WWI
Russia felt it wasn’t their war to fight, Russia no longer wanted to spend money on the war, and they had a revolution going on in their country.
czar
king or ruler
Bloody Sunday
(1905) Peasants had a peaceful protest and were shot at under the order of the czar and he did not help them.
the czars ruled for…
300 years
The Bolsheviks
led the Russian Revolution and executed the Czar and his family
The Romanous
Czar Nicholas and his family
Rasputin
A Russian mystic who claimed he could heal the czar and czarina’s son
Rasputin was executed…
before the czar and family
Vladimir Lenin
Led the Bolsheviks and came to power after the czars. Made a communist government
Lenin said…
“Peace, land, and bread”
Lenin believed….
A classless type of society and the government should have control over businesses
Russia lost the…..
Russian-Japanese war in the early 1900s
Russians lost…
confidence in their country
Industrialization in the Russian Revolution led to…
poor working conditions, protests/revolts
Joseph Stalin
Takes over after Lenin had a dictatorship and used violence and terror
secret police
Police that roamed the streets and took people who disagreed with the him
Collective Farms
Everyone worked on the same farms and got payed the same amount
5 year plans
Created by Stalin and said what to sell and how much
industrialization_______greatly due to the five year plans
increased
The plans also led to shortages in…
land, food, and clothing
The New Economic Policy
violated both Marx’s and Lenin’s ideas of communism
The Great Purge
Stalin’s great attempt to get rid of all who threaten his power.
Pogroms
Organized violence against Jews
