Russian Revolution

Question 1

Initially favored some liberal ideas, increasingly reactionary after 1815

Answer 1

Czar Alexander I

Question 2

1st major attempt to stop growth of liberalism

Answer 2

“Holy Alliance”

Question 3

Officials trying to put Constantine in power, officals killed so Nicholas becomes Czar

Answer 3

Decembrist Uprising

Question 4

becomes czar at the end of the uprising

Answer 4

Nicholas I

Question 5

Russian village, Mir, is superior to anything in the west might have to offer, will support czar, want support from Orthodox church

Answer 5

Slavophiles

Question 6

Extend the genius of russian culture, by creating a constitutional governments, want to end serfdom, think they will achieve this through revolution

Answer 6

Westernizer

Question 7

Greatest reform-minded czar

Answer 7

Alexander II

Question 8

Abolishes serfdom, allows serfs to choose jobs , and own property through contract

Answer 8

Emancipation Acts

Question 9

Communal home

Answer 9

Mir

Question 10

District assemblies, local administrative bodies, people elect who is in them

Answer 10

Zemstovs

Question 11

No government control of state

Answer 11

Anarchy

Question 12

Anarchist who wanted state to be destroyed completely

Answer 12

Mikhail Bakunin

Question 13

Most reactionary czar of the 19th century

Answer 13

Alexander III

Question 14

3 points to help and reform government

Answer 14

Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Russification

Question 15

violent attacks, primarily against Jews

Answer 15

Progroms

Question 16

no definition

Answer 16

Theodore Herzel, zionism

Question 17

wants to build big factories in Russian society, Russia goes under gold standard

Answer 17

Count S.Y, Whitte

Question 18

Comes to power after Alexander III dies

Answer 18

Nicholas II

Question 19

war between Japan and Russia, Russia loss

Answer 19

Russo- Japanese war

Question 20

Ports, NH; Russia has to acknowledge that Japan owns Korea, also have to share Sicelan islands

Answer 20

Treaty of Portsmouth

Question 21

Workers march to winter palace, many killed by palace officials

Answer 21

Bloody Sunday

Question 22

A rise in liberal ideas, bad economic condition

Answer 22

Revolution of 1905

Question 23

creation of Duma

Answer 23

October Manifesto

Question 24

first Russian national Parliament

Answer 24

Duma

Question 25

New prime minister , want to make reforms in Russia, wants to break up mirs, assassinated in 1911

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Peter Stoylpin

Question 26

heir to Marx in socialist thought

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Vladimir Lenin

Question 27

The minority, wanted to await the evolution of capitalism and the proletariat; sought a more Democratic Party with mass membership

Answer 27

Mensheviks

Question 28

The majority- followed Lenin's ideas

Answer 28

Bolsheviks

Question 29

formed workers' soviets

Answer 29

Leon Trotsky

Question 30

starts by massive strike in streets led by women over a food shortage; causes Nicholas II to abdicate

Answer 30

February Revolution

Question 31

Influenced Alexandria to do bad things, seen as a mad man in the eyes of Russians

Answer 31

Rasputin

Question 32

a dual government, ruled Russia

Answer 32

Provisional Government

Question 33

leader of the provisional government but also a member of the Petrograd Soviet

Answer 33

Alexander Kerensky

Question 34

consisted of workers and soldiers who had overthrown czar, mensheviks led at the organization

Answer 34

Petrograd Soviet

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strips all officers of authority and places powers in hands of elected committee of common soldiers

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Army Order #1

Question 36

Lenin rejected all cooperation with the bourgeoise provisional government

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April Thesis

Question 37

Con. plotted to overthrow Kerensky's provisional government, plot failed w/out bloodshed, Bolsheviks cast themselves as defenders of revolution

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Korniliv Affair

Question 38

Leon Trotsky led the soviet overthrow and arrest of the provisional governmentm collapsed with little bloodshed. Bolsheviks officially took control of government

Answer 38

October Revolution

Question 39

Tried to organize revolution, composed of: LENIN, TROTSKY, STALIN, Zinoviev, and Bukharin

Answer 39

Politburo

Question 40

eventually the communist party, army of Bolsheviks

Answer 40

Red Army

Question 41

The secret police, created in December to eliminate opponents

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Cheka

Question 42

New name of the Bolsheviks

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Communist Party

Question 43

Took Russia out of WW1

Answer 43

Treaty of Brest- Litovsk

Question 44

War between two central groups in Russia fought over government control

Answer 44

Russian Cilvil War

Question 45

Bolsheviks/ Communists

Answer 45

Reds

Question 46

Everyone else, included officers of the old army, and 18 groups proclaiming themselves to be the real government of Russia, no real leader

Answer 46

Whites

Question 47

earliest form of socialism in the Soviet Union, applied a total war concept, declared all land nationalized, state took control of heavy industries, peasants forced to deliver food

Answer 47

"war communism"

Question 48

*no definitions*

Answer 48

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics