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03/30/2014

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Term
Decembrist Uprising
Definition
1825
"union of Salvation"
St. Petersburg (south radical)
South: no monarchy
redistribute land
north: Constitutional Monarchy
limited franchise
Term
Tsar Alexander I
Definition
Tsar of Russia
dies dec. 1825
Russia
who will take the throne?
brother? Nicholas?
crushes imperial guard-no mercy
Term
Petrachevsky Circle
Definition
1848-1849
Russia
influence utopianists: Fourier,St.Simon
end censorship & serfdom
exiled
Term
Emancipation of Serfs
Definition
1861-Alex II
divided lands btwn peasants & lords
right to buy land-no$$
peasants indebted to state
Term
Populism
Definition
1860-1870
anti-Tsar
Narodnik
kulaks-rich peasants
lend $ to poor
socialism
intelligentsia
Term
People's Will
Definition
1879
nihilists-believe nothing
easily convert to terrorism
Goals: const. assembly, suffrage
"hunting the Tsar"
Term
Tsar Alexander II
Definition
1855-1881
Reformist Tsar
emancipated serfs
assembly
assasinated March 1881
Term
Tsar Alexander III
Definition
1881-1894
vengeful/fear tactics
created political exiles
hunted people's will
Term
International Trade Crash
Definition
1900-1905
lack of credit/scandals
crushed industry
blamed Jews for symptoms
organized Semitic attacks
lowest wages/strikes illegal
Term
War with Japan
Definition
1904-05
over island control
embarrassing loss
leads to mutinies
form independent pp's
Term
Sergei
Definition
1905-killed
Moscow governor
relocated Jews
controlled universiy
Term
Duma
Definition
1905
formed by Nicholas II
limits power/tension diffuses
Term
Tsar Nicholas II
Definition
1894-1917
Not good leader
forms Duma
doesn't work
forced to abdicate march 2, 1917
Term
Russian Revolution
Definition
1917-1918
3rd yr WWI
lack RR
lack artillary
mutiny gains
Term
Dual Power
Definition
Duma v. council of common people
provisional v. socialist
believed v. real power
Term
Lenin
Definition
1922-1924
led Bolshevik movement
wants to pull out of war
redistribute land
civil war
Term
Civil War
Definition
1918-1921
white v red army
red wins
white supported by allies
red freedom
Term
USSR
Definition
est. 1922 by Lenin
helped by Stalin and Trotsky
1st social state
union Moscow capital
Term
Post War Germany
Definition
versailles treaty 1919
republic proc. 1918
wilhelm II abdicates
split:
left: socialist democrats
Right: Freekorps
Term
Communist Party of Germany
Definition
Jan. 1919
strike by workers
.5 mill
leader: Luxembourg
fails
Term
Wiemar Republic
Definition
est 1919 under treaty
perlamentary goverment
fails-Hitler (Freekorp)
Term
Comintern
Definition
1919-1943
international communist movement
create network
support revolutions
support foreign policy
34 parties - break nationalism
overthrow the state
Term
Comintern in US
Definition
unions not revolutions
American Federation of Labor 1886
Samuel Gampers-non comm
collective bargaining
Term
International Workers of the World
Definition
1905
opposed AFL
links to Russia
John Reed
Term
US Communist Party
Definition
1919
John Reed
split in Socialist party
linked to comintern
Term
Palestine
Definition
1918
under British mandate
influx of Zionists-1895
led by Hertzel
buy property from arabs
escaping pogroms
Term
Labor Zionists Party
Definition
1905
underground RR of jews
working class state-socialist
Term
Socialist Worker's Party
Definition
1917
British Police arrest leaders
public
fragmented
Comintern intervenes
Term
Palestine Communist Party
Definition
1923
secret
both Jews and Arabs
idea of working class
support arab recruitment
criticized by comintern
Term
Front Organizations
Definition
1920's
appear independent(comm)
union - "Ihud"
both jews and arabs
send students to USSR
Term
Policy Change
Definition
1928
pcp can ONLY work with working class
narrowing arab recruiting
rise of Stalin
Term
Large Uprising
Definition
1929
Palestine
target British and land owning jews
pcp utilizes call for unity
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