Unit XV interwar years Flashcards
What is Russia relying on economically up to this point?
on the farms
Was Russia relient on its people?
no
What was the burden of the mir?
had to pay fees and taxes
What were the Kulaks?
wealthy peasants
What was SRP?
they were marxists, peasantry was the key, not capitalist
What was the SDP?
more western, Russia must be capitalistic, despised peasantry
What happen to the SDP?
split into Bolshevik’s and mensheviks
When did SDP split?
1912
What was the october manefesto?
promise of reform
Was the manefesto kept?
no
What was Rasputin?
a mystical healer
Were Socialist cooperative?
no
Was there commement in Russian soldiers?
no
Who did Nicholas leave to run the government?
his wife( actually Rasputin)
Who was the Prime Minister of Russia during the Revolution?
Stolyon
What happened to the army in the March Revolution?
they mutinied
What did Kornilov do?
rebelled
What were the problems with the provisional government?
kept in the war, still famine, supply problem, support dwindling
What did Lenin write in April?
April Theses
What did Leon Trowtsky do?
create the red army
What were the 3 points of Lenin
peace, land, and bread
Stalin created what?
war communism
Who had complete control?
Stalin
What is the difference between the October and Bolshevik revolutions?
nothing
The Bolshevik party was renamed into?
communist party
What did the NEP actually create?
captitalism
Stalin’s nickname was
the man of steel
How did Trowtsky lose power?
he was exiled to siberia and mexico
Collectives were what?
large agricultural farms
What were the Purge trials?
killing of older Bolsheviks
What were the effects of the collectivization?
increase of production, movement of rural labor to cities, destruction of middle class
Allowed peasants earn profits on their farm production
In December of 1918, when the Bolsheviks signed an armistice with Germany
Which group led the March 1917 Revolution in Russia, leading to the abdication of the tsar?
The revolution was caused by the tsar’s inability to govern, not the action of any group
What were the Soviet Union’s Great Purges?
The show trials and executions, imprisonment, or deportation of millions of broadly defined “political enemies,” which allowed Stalin to build a new Communist Party
Lenin’s New Economic Policy
Allowed peasants earn profits on their farm production
The Russian Revolution led to what?
Nicholas II issuing the October Manifesto
In the Aril Theses Lenin challenged what?
the provisional government
Did collectivisation increase food supply?
no
The NEP provided what?
a market economy
What is the essence of the NEP
a significant resumption of private ownership
