Soviet Era Term Flashcards

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Muscle of the bolsheviks, assassin, power hungry, world wide communism

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Joseph Stalin

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2
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Brain behind movement, wants to improve USSR, less ambitious than Stalin

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Trotsky

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3
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Stalin emphasized heavy industry over customers goods

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Industrial development

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4
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Led to disaster, Stalin combined small farms into large farms

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Collectivization

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5
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Landowning peasants opposed to civilization Stalin seized their farms

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Kulaks

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6
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The Bolsheviks, the win in 1921

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Red army

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7
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Elected legislators

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Supreme Soviet

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8
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Elected the politburo

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Central committee

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9
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Small executive body

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Politburo

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10
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The government excessive complete control over people

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Totalitarian rule

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11
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Expel Stalin’s rivals from the communist party

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The great purge

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12
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A pact hitler and Stalin signed which meant they wouldn’t attack each other

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Nonaggression pact

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13
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Germany invaded and they all ran out of food

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900-day siege of Leningrad

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14
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Destroyed factories, railroads, farms, and cities had to be rebuilt

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World War II

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15
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Succeeded Stalin denounced Stalin and tried to end brutal terror

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Nikita Khrushchev

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16
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Khrushchev spent a lot of money on the weapons

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Cold War

17
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New party leader, ended comparative openness, cracked down on dissidents

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Leonid Brezhnev

18
Q

People who spoke out poorly about the government

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Dissidents

19
Q

Meant to create a classless society in which everyone’s needs were met

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Communism

20
Q

Leaders of the communist party that got special privileges

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The party elite

21
Q

Where the czars tried to make everyone adopt the Russian language and culture

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Russification

22
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Religion

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Tried to reduce influence the religion

23
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Economic life

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Free health care inexpensive transit many shortages

24
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Where people trade goods illegally in defiance of the governments rules

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Black market

25
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Family life

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Russia wanted stronger families so they made it harder to be divorced

26
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Women

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After the Russian revolution they passed a law stating all men and women are equal

27
Q

NEP

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New economic policy