Russian Revolution

Question 1

Hemophilia

Answer 1

Disease where blood doesn’t clot normally.

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Red Army

Answer 2

In the Russian civil war, the Bolsheviks.

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November Revolution

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Bolshevik revolution, where Lenin seized power from the provisional government.

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Soviets

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Local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers. Often had more influence than the provisional government.

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Provisional Government

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Temporary government to replace a failed one.

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Pravda

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A Russian political newspaper associated with the Communist Party

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Five Year Plan

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A list of economic goals created by Stalin

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Reds

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Red Army (Bolsheviks)

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Bolsheviks

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A political party created by Vladimir Lenin who seized power.

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February Revolution

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Another name for the March Revolution (Russia used the Julian calendar)

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Proletariat

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The working class

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USSR

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; a state that existed from 1922 to 1991

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Collectivization

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A policy that aimed to collect individual farms and turn them into collective farms. Enforced under Stalin.

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Great Purge

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Campaign of political repression from 1936 to 1940, where anybody who might oppose Stalin were targeted and killed.

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Whites

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White Army…in the Russian civil war, all forces opposing the Bolsheviks.

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October Revolution

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Bolshevik revolution

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March Revolution

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Uprising in 1917, where textile workers went on strike. Grew into revolution. Czar was forced to abdicate and he was eventually executed.

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Communism

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A political theory where all property is communal, or owned by the state. The government controls all.

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Soviet Union

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A state that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Totalitarianism

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Government system where citizens are subject to the authority of an absolute state

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Kulak

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A peasant who was wealthy enough to own land. Resisted Stalin’s collectivization.

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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The treaty between Russia and Germany that ended the fighting between them in WWI.

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“Peace, Land, Bread”

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Lenin’s promise to secure peace/stability and prosperity to the people.

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NEP

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A small scale version of capitalism

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Czar Nicholas II

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The last czar who was killed in the Bolshevik rebellion.

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Alexis

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Nicholas’s son and heir to Russia.

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Lenin

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Revolutionary and leader of the Bolshevik party

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Stalin

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Lenin’s successor and dictator of the Soviet Union

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Czarina Alexandra

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Wife of Nicholas and granddaughter of Queen Victoria

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Rasputin

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A “holy man” who claimed to have mystical healing powers. He appeared to heal Alexis, and won the trust of Alexandra. He was able to spread corruption in the gov’t.

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Kerensky

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Leader of the provisional government following the fall of the czar.

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Romanovs

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The ruling dynasty of Russia for 300 years the revolution.

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Trotsky

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A leader of the Bolsheviks and and commander of the Red Army

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Marx

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Political theorist who came up with Marxism. Believed that proletariat would rise up against capitalists and in communal ownership of wealth.