Russian Revolution and Stalin

Flashcards about The Russian Revolution and Stalin

Alexander II

Tsar who liberated the serfs in 1861.

Lenin

Radical revolutionary leader of the Bolsheviks who ruled from 1917-1924.

Rasputin

Influenced Tsarina Alexandra and claimed to heal her son's hemophilia.

Stakhanov

Miner whose 'record' inspired a movement for workers to exceed quotas.

Nicholas II

Russia's last Romanov ruler.

Trotsky

Stalin's main rival, purged by 1927, hero of the Russian Civil War.

Proletariat

Workers who overthrow capitalists, according to Marx.

Red Guards

Armed factory workers who overthrew the provisional government in November 1917.

Bourgeoisie

Factory owners/capitalists portrayed in propaganda, according to Marx.

General Secretary

Stalin's title in 1922 that helped him consolidate power.

Russo-Japanese War

War fought in East Asia from 1904-05 that showed Russian military weaknesses.

World War I

The war Tsar Nicholas II went to the front to command in 1915 leaving the government to his wife and ministers.

Soviet Union

Name of the new Bolshevik (Communist) state.

Ideology

A totalitarian trait exemplified in Stalin's rule, such as the Five-Year Plan.

Kulaks

Stalin eliminated them because of strong resistance to new agricultural policies.

Government officials alone (the state)

Under Stalin's command economy, all economic decisions were made by these people.

The Great Purge

In the 1930s, this was a campaign to eliminate any opposition to Stalin's power.

Economic development, especially in industry

The purpose of the Soviet state's Five-Year Plans.

The Holodomor

A man-made famine in Ukraine, considered a genocide.

The Gulag

The labor camp system set up during Stalin's rule.

The New Economic Policy (NEP)

A state program following the Civil War that allowed peasants to sell surplus crops and artisans to sell goods privately.

The November Revolution in 1917

Caused by a quick seizure of power staged by Lenin and his followers

Trotsky

The leader of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War?

The 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

The treaty between Russia and Germany in 1918 that ended Russia's fighting in World War I

The main goal of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution

to form a communist state

A totalitarian state

A state in which the government controls every aspect of public and private life

A weapon of totalitarianism

Police terror

Collectives

Big state owned farms, operated by groups of peasants

Karl Marx

Author of The Communist Manifesto

an autocratic Tsar

Russia was ruled by this group from the early 1600s until the abdication of Nicholas II

Difference between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks

The Bolsheviks believed an elite group should make all decisions; the Mensheviks believed that all members should make decisions

Bloody Sunday

A peaceful protest that resulted in many protestors being killed by Nicholas II's troops in 1905

Soviets that emerged in 1917

Local councils of workers and soldiers

The immediate cause of the March Revolution in 1917

Food riots in the capital city of St. Petersburg