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chapter 17 russian revolution
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03/11/2009

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Russo-Japanese War
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opposed eachother because of monchovia and kora; japanese wanted to supply factories and russians wanted expansion to stifle criticisms against them
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Alexander III
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tried to get rid of revolutionism and silence peacable criticism of the government
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pogroms
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what the jews were subjected to in russia
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russification
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all cultures in russia were forced to assimilate to russian culture
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pobldonostev
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procurator of the holy synod, saw the west as doomed. attacked liberalism and western writing
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Constitutional Democrats
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emerged in 1915, also called cadets (rising business and professional class)
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mirs
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village communes divded among peasants but paid high taxes
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kulaks
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enterprising/wealthier peasants
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populists
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revolutionary intelligentsia
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social revolutionaries
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formed in 1901, wanted a revolution to come to russia soon
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social democrats
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founded in 1883, also known as marxists
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bolsheviks
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majority of marxists founded by lenin
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mansheviks
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minority of marxists
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Bloody Sunday
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peaceful but unhappy laborers gathered in the Tsars winter palace january 1905, but he wasnt there and soldiers shot them
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soviets
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councils of workers fromed in moscow
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october manifesto
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promised a constitution, civil liberties, and a duma to be elected by all classes
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Father Gapan
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tried to organize the factory workers in st petersburg
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duma
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the russian representative body
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peter stolypin
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principal minister from 1906-1911, dissolved first two dumas wanted to build up propertied classes
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pravda
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bolshevik party paper
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Alexandra
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german, but tsarina of russia, looked at russians w/ contempt and followed autocracy
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rasputin
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mysterious holy man, who gave advice to alexandra suppposedly had supernatural and prophetic powers, cured her son of hemophillia
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petrograd soviet
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represented revolutionary forces also known as workers council, compared to paris commune of 1792
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provisonal government
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followed examples of european revolutions, gave universal male suffrage, tried to continue war against germany
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Alexander Kerensky
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placed as head of provisional government in place of prince lvar
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Order No. 1
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ordered on march 14, entrusting command within the army to committeees elected by officers and soldiers
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general kronilov
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military commander, attempted a counterrevolution
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russian congress of soviets
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called by lenin and bolsheviks, wanted a just democratic peace and abolishment of all landlord property
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council of peoples commissioners
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led by lenin, renaming of provisional government
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Leon Trotsky
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supported lenins decision to seize power
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cheka
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initials of the extraordinary all russian commission of struggle against counterrevolution
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communist party
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in march 1918, bolsheviks renamed themselves to this
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KGB
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alternate name of the cheka
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red army
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foundedin january 1918, leon trotsky as war comissar and creater
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vladivostok
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allied powers wanted to launch a military intervention through there and then agreed to an interallied military force landing there
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whites
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name for the counterrevolutinaries
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red terror
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broke out during civil wars, in part a repsonse to civil/foreign wars
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kronstadt
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where first adherents of bolsheviks rose in 1921, were shot down in the red terror
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USSR
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unioin of soviet socialist republics
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central commiteee
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appex of authority in the communist party
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politburo
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political bureau of about 12 members of the cent. commitee
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general secretary
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most powerful, dominated the entire structure and apparatus w/ authority over appoinments and assignments at all levels
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NEP
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new economic policy, state owned basic industries, but allowed private enterprising
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leningrad
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renaming after lenin died of petrograd
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permanent revolution
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developed by trotsky, an attempt for poletarian objectives on all fronts in all parts of the world/wanted a development of industry
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five year plans
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launched in 1928 aimed to rapidize industrialization and collectization of agriculture
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gosplan
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administered 5 year plans, decided how much of every article the country should produce
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collectization
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made land owned by not the state but the peasants collectively
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stakhanovites
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labor heroes or miners for great achievements named after a 1935 miner
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serge kirov
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revolutionary companion of stalin since 1909, head of leningrad showed signs of leading disaffected and was murdered
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Great Terrors
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trials of old bolsheviks
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