Russian Revolution Quiz* Flashcards

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Freed russian serfs who bought land and became relatively successful farmers and prosperous land owners

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Kulaks

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Czar of russia who freed the serfs in 1861. He was assented by a revolutionary

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Alexander II

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Communal farms upon which newly freed serfs worked, lived, and shared the profits. Most russian peasants lived on this farm

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Mirs

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Minister for nicholas II who tried to expand the number of russians who owned property in order to enlist their support of the government. He was assassinated

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Stolypin

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This slaughter at he winter palace in 1905 led to a revolution that weakened the bond of trust between the people of russia and the Czar

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Bloody Sunday

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Workers councils composed of proletariat of russia that organized in russian cities

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Soviets

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This man, a loving father and a devoted husband but less than a competent ruler, would have the dubious distinction of being the last russian czar

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Nicolas II

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The group within russia that came to believe hat the only way for mother russia to modernize and become a power was to eliminate the government

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Intelligentsia

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Legislative body created by the october manifesto

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Duma

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Monk who seemed to save the life of the czar’s son and who exercised a great deal of power and influence in the russian court

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Rasputin

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