Soviet Era Term Flashcards
Muscle of the bolsheviks, assassin, power hungry, world wide communism
Joseph Stalin
Brain behind movement, wants to improve USSR, less ambitious than Stalin
Trotsky
Stalin emphasized heavy industry over customers goods
Industrial development
Led to disaster, Stalin combined small farms into large farms
Collectivization
Landowning peasants opposed to civilization Stalin seized their farms
Kulaks
The Bolsheviks, the win in 1921
Red army
Elected legislators
Supreme Soviet
Elected the politburo
Central committee
Small executive body
Politburo
The government excessive complete control over people
Totalitarian rule
Expel Stalin’s rivals from the communist party
The great purge
A pact hitler and Stalin signed which meant they wouldn’t attack each other
Nonaggression pact
Germany invaded and they all ran out of food
900-day siege of Leningrad
Destroyed factories, railroads, farms, and cities had to be rebuilt
World War II
Succeeded Stalin denounced Stalin and tried to end brutal terror
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev spent a lot of money on the weapons
Cold War
New party leader, ended comparative openness, cracked down on dissidents
Leonid Brezhnev
People who spoke out poorly about the government
Dissidents
Meant to create a classless society in which everyone’s needs were met
Communism
Leaders of the communist party that got special privileges
The party elite
Where the czars tried to make everyone adopt the Russian language and culture
Russification
Religion
Tried to reduce influence the religion
Economic life
Free health care inexpensive transit many shortages
Where people trade goods illegally in defiance of the governments rules
Black market
