Unit 4- Russia

Question 1

Karl Marx

Answer 1

had an economic view of history, encouraged workers to unite, communist manifesto, Das kapital (anything that can be used to produce something)

Question 2

5-year plan

Answer 2

collective agriculture will cause rapid industrialization (1928)

Question 3

collective

Answer 3

farms run by government, large plantations where slaves worked

Question 4

provisional government

Answer 4

set up march 14, kerensky was the leader, Duma disbanded, continued war, Nicholas II abdicated

Question 5

kulaks

Answer 5

rich peasants, private owners, farmers who had their own land

Question 6

politburo

Answer 6

group of high level communists who made decisions when the leader was gone, formed new elite, ran the country

Question 7

purges

Answer 7

target old Bolsheviks, torture the people to make confess, army leaders court martialed

Question 8

Mir

Answer 8

village farms created by serfs, cooperative

Question 9

Red Army

Answer 9

successful in battle, gave land to the peasants/ Red Terror- physical extermination of opposition

Question 10

Russo-Japanese army

Answer 10

lead to Bloody Sunday, protests, strikes, peasants were unhappy, “crossing the t”

Question 11

Bloody Sunday

Answer 11

led by gapon, organized march to palace to tell the tsar that things are bad, reacted with strike

Question 12

1905 revolution

Answer 12

reforms tried, no real power, tsar kept dismissing the Duma

Question 13

effects of WWI on Russia

Answer 13

people angry over how the government handled the war, no food, caused Bolshevik revolution

Question 14

de-stalinization

Answer 14

removed Stalin’s statues, Kruschev called for reforms, accused Stalin of killing soviets

Question 15

Gorbachev & USSR economy

Answer 15

stopped arms race, announced foreign policy based on diplomacy, created new domestic policies

Question 16

reason for buffer zones

Answer 16

Stalin wanted to protect himself after WWII