In 1924, Lenin dies. Who replaced him as the leader of the Soviet Union?
Who is Stalin
100
Who were the first to take to the streets at the beginning f the Russian Revolution? Why?
Who are women. Hungry (bread)
100
What did Stalin and his secret police encourage people to become?
What are informants
100
The name of the organization that helped Stalin kill millions of Russians
What is the secret police
200
Who was the royal family that was executed in the basement of one of their palaces?
Who are the Romanovs
200
What is the major problem with a communist economy?
What is that there is no incentive for the workers to work harder because their wages are set at a certain amount
200
During the Russian Revolution, organizations of ordinary Russian workers formed these councils to overthrow the Tsarist government. What are these ordinary workers called? (hint) The new name of Russia after the revolution
Who are soviets
200
Stalin used this in the media to communicate his beliefs to the Russian people. This information often exagerrated the progress that he ws making.
What is propaganda
200
The name of the Russian legislature that was organized in 1905.
What is a DUMA
300
When the last tsar of Russia went to fight on the front line against Germany during WWI, who did he leave in charge?
Why did the Russian people not like this?
Who is his wife Alexander. She was born in Germany
300
After Stalin became the rule of Russia, he devises this "plan" to industrialize Russia quickly.
What 5 year plan
300
How do followers of Communism think that Russian wealth and land should be distributed?
What is equally among all citizens
300
What was Lenin's slogan for the Russian people that offered them hope?
What is PEACE, LAND and BREAD
300
Forced labor camps under Stalin's rule were called _.
What is a gulag
400
This drunk "mad monk" helped make decisions about the way Russia should be ruled in the Tsar's absence.
Who is Rasputin
400
During trials where Russians were charged with fake crimes, how did the secret police get them to confess? Then what happened to them?
What is tortured them..then shot them in the head
400
After the Communists overthrew the tsar, this was taken away from him and rich Russians who were known as the bourgeoisie..name one thing
What is land, wealth, and jewelry
400
Who changed Russia to a pure Communist country?
Who is Joseph Stalin
400
Idenitify 2 outcomes that Russia faced after WWI
What is: millions of casualties, lack of supplies, lack of industrialization and food shortages
500
What organization or group assastinated the last tsar and his family?
Who are the Bolsheviks
500
What is the MAJOR goal of Communism
What is world domination
I will also accept an equal society where there are no classes
500
When the tsar brought in the deadly Coussak soldiers to stop the revolution in the streets, how did the soldiers react to the ordinary citizens?
What is they refused to fire on them
500
What was the execution of Russians who spoke negatively about Stalin? hint: (getting rid of)
What the GREAT PURGE
500
Russians were forced to work on this type of farm during Stalin's rule