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Russian Revolution and USSR
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02/11/2009

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pogroms
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early concentration camps used by Alex III against the Jews
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Constitutional Democrats
Definition
KDs- party that wanted a constution and parliament but were not interested in the working classes
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mirs
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communal farms
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kulaks
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peasents who owned land and were intensly disliked by both the upper classes and the other peasents
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populists
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a group that had a mystic faith in teerror and the power of the rural masses
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Social Revolutionary Party
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Violent party that believed the peasents were the key to the revolution and skipping the Capitalist stage of development. Previously the populist party
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Russian Social Democratic Party
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Marxist party formed in 1898 to unite the various revolutionary organizations into one party. Were western oriented and believed that Russia must first be capitalistic and develop a proletariat. Despised the peasant
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Bolsheviks
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party that split from the RSDP in 1912. Small revolutionary elite, strongly centralized with power to a leader and a "party line" set by a central comittee. "majority" party
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Mensheviks
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party that split from the RSDP in 1912. Desired a larger, open party with democratic decision-making and bridging over all but the most fundamental disagreements. "minority" party
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Lenin
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leader of the Bolsheviks. Believed in revolution by a small vanguarad of pro revolutionaries
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Bloody Sunday
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massacre of workers peacefully demonstrating in 1905
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October Manifesto
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document in which the tsar promised a constitution, civil liberties and a Duma
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Duma
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first congress in Russia without any true power
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Stolypin
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Prime minister from 1906-1911 who broadened powers of semstvos, abolished redemption payments, allowed the sale of land, and encouraged poor to move to cities. Iseas opposed by the Tsar and reactionary parties. Assassinated by a SR
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Rasputin
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peasent healer who had great influence over Tsarina Alexandria
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"Peace, Land, Bread"
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Bolshevik slogan that gained the support of the soviets
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soviets
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workers unions
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Council of People's Commissars
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Bolshevik government
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Treaty with Germany. Russia lost the Baltic states plus Ukraine and Poland
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Cheka
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political police created by the Bolsheviks
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Red Army
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Communist army in the Russian civil war
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Soviet of Nationalities
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Committee with representatives from each area of the USSR
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Five Year Plan
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government plan for Russian progress. unrealistic, unattainable goals. highlighted rapid industrialization and collectivization fo agriculture
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Gosplan
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planning agency the carried out the five year plan
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stakhai
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labor heroes who exceeded productivity goals. used as models for Russian society
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the purge trials of the 1930s
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purging of the Bolshevik party with expulsion of one third of the members. Many old Bolshevik leaders forced to confess and were executed. Left leadership of the country solely up to Stalin
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The Third International
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1919-representative council of communists with members from 37 nations. Crntralized under Lenin's 21 poins. Members were to be strict communists taking orders from Moscow who's job was to infiltrate unions and the army in their native lands
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Comintern
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trained members of the third international including Chiang Kai-Shek
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