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This newspaper was called 'Spark' in Russian, and was a key source of information on Lenin's revolutionary thinking.
What is Iskra?
This art style was popular with intellectuals and was known for abstract shapes in the early Soviet period.
What is Avant-Garde.
This writer of 'War and Peace' became a harsh critic of the Tsar, while still remaining a conservative.
Who is Tolstoy
The tsar's secret police officially known as 'The Department for Protecting Security and Order'.
Who were the Okhrana
Nicolas II claimed that god wanted him to be tsar. This justification is known as this.
What is the 'divine right of kings'.
Meaning 'Truth' in Russian, it was the official state-controlled newspaper of the USSR.
What is Pravda?
What is 'engineers of the soul'.
This American writer witnessed the October Revolution and used that experience to write the book '10 Days that Shook the World'.
Who is John Reed
This secret police was led by Felix Dzerzhinsky and was responsible for rooting out 'class enemies' in the early Soviet period.
Who were the Cheka
This policy, banned newspapers in languages such as Ukrainian, Polish and Finnish.
What is Russification?
This art style glorified common people and focused on direct messages to the public with little interpretation.
What is Socialist Realism
Written by an SR, this promise of 'Bread, Peace, Land' was effectively used by Lenin to gain political support.
What is the April Theses.
This secret police was used by Stalin to carry out the purges and great terror of the 1930s.
Who were the NKVD.
This man was erased from the official Soviet history books, despite his numerous contributions to the Bolshevik party, such as founding the Red Army
Who is Trotsky
This director created Soviet mythology with films such as 'October' and 'Battleship Potemkin.
Who is Sergei Eisenstein?
This artist was famous in the tsarist period, with painting such as 'The Volga Boatmen' and '1905'
Who is Ilya Repin?
This revolutionary had many jobs and accomplishments, but his admirers and enemies called him 'The Pen'.
Who is Trotsky
This forerunner to the KGB was responsible for grain requisitioning during collectivization, arresting or shooting peasants that offered any resistance.
Who were the OGPU.
Who is Pavlik Morozov
This film agency was set up by the Soviet government to education and motivate the Soviet population.
What is NARKOMPROS
Who is Alexander Solzhenitsyn
This writer and thinker was known as the 'Father of Russian Socialism'.
Who is Plekhonov.
These collaborators with the secret police were common people. Known as 'varony' in Russian
Who were the Ravens.
This city was previously known as Tsaritsyn before being renamed this, in honor of the Soviet leader
What is Stalingrad