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What was the main theme of jokes in the Soviet Union?
the hypocrisy of a communist system that promised equality and abundance for all but delivered a dismal and uncertain economic life for the many and great privileges for the few
When a Soviet citizen entered a medical clinic one day and asked an ear-and-eye doctor, when asked about his problem, what did he say?
Well, I keep hearing one thing and seeing another.
Modern communism found its political and philosophical roots in the 19th century, in what?
socialism, inspired by the teachings of Karl Marx
By the 1970s, what amount of the world’s population lived in societies governed by communist regimes?
one-third
What country came under communist rule in 1924 as a spillover of the Russian Revolution?
Mongolia
Vietnam a more locally based communist movement came under the leadership of what person who led Vietnam to embodied both a socialist vision and Vietnamese nationalism?
Ho Chi Minh
In Latin America, who led a revolutionary nationalist movement against a repressive, American-backed government in Cuba?
Fidel Castro
In the aftermath of World War II, communist parties played an important role where?
Greece, France and Italy
In the 1950s, a small communist party in the United States became the focus of an intense wave of fear and political repression known as what?
McCarthyism
Through what organization, Soviet authorities also sought to control their policies and actions of the countries joining the communist party?
Comintern (Communist International)
During the cold war decades, what brought the Soviet Union and Eastern European communist states together in a military alliance designed to counter NATO alliances?
the Warsaw Pact
What parallel organization tied Eastern European economies tightly to the economy of the Soviet Union?
the Council on Mutual Economic Assistance
What joined the Soviet Union and China in an alliance in 1950 that caused many in the West to view communism as a unified international movement aimed at their destruction?
Treaty of Friendship
In St. Petersburg, how many wives of soldiers demonstrated for bread and peace?
100,000
By February 1917, who had lost almost all support and was forced to abdicate the throne, thus ending the Romanov dynasty?
Tsar Nicholas II
What small socialist party with a determined and charismatic leader, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, more commonly known as Lenin, was the most effective of the radical groups who expressed their feelings to the Povisional Government?
Bolsheviks
What were Bolshevik military forces known as, where lower-class men were forced into during the civil war in 1918?
the Red Army
What did the Bolsheviks rename their country to?
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union)
Where did Stalin act to install fully communist governments, loyal to himself?
Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria
Who was the leader of Yugoslavia who openly defied Soviet efforts to control Yugoslav communism, and who proclaimed, “Our goal is that everyone should be master in his own house?”
Josef Broz, known as Tito
Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP)?
Mao Zedong
Who was the opponent of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Guomindang (Nationalist Party), which governed China after 1928
Who lead the Guomindang (Nationalist Party)?
Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese communists looked among who for support?
the country’s peasant villages
What gained the CCP a growing measure of respect and support among China’s peasants?
years of guerrilla warfare, experiments with land reform in areas under communist control, and the creation of a communist military force
What did communists do to recruit women for the revolution?
established a Marriage Law that outlawed arranged or “purchased” marriages, made divorce easier, and gave women the right to vote and own property
How many men did China’s communist-led People’s Liberation Army have?
900,000 men, supported by additional 2 million militia troops
In 1919, the Communist party set up what special organization (Women’s Department), whose radical leaders, all women, pushed a decidedly feminist agenda during the 1920s?
Zhenotdel
What former streetcar conductor who played an active role in the revolution, recalled the impact of participation in Zhenotdel?
Alexandra Rodionova
Stalin singled out the richer peasants known as what, for exclusion from the new collective farms?
kulaks
What marked Mao’s first response to these distortions of Chinese socialism and promoted small0scale industrialization in the rural areas, fostered widespread and pratical technological eductation, and it envisaged an immediate transition to full communism in the “people’s communes”?
The Great Leap Forward of 1958-1960
