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Nature, Extent, and Treatment of Opposition
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100
Extraordinary All-Russian Commission of Struggle Against Counterrevolution, Speculation, and Sabotage
What is CHEKA
100
A blend of the national and the international: to recognize nationality by granting autonomy to national groups, while holding these groups together in higher union and allowing new groups to enter regardless of historic frontiers.
What was the guiding conception of the political reorganization?
100
Ideal of a highly disciplined party, made up of faithful and zealous workers who willingly carried out orders that characterized the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.
What was the Leninist ideal?
100
Trotsky's doctrine through which he called for an incessant drive for proletarian objectives on all fronts in all parts of the world. Championed world revolution, denounced the tendency to bureaucratic ossification in the party. Urged a new movement of the masses to give it life. Called for more forceful development of industry and for collectivization of agriculture.
What is "permanent revolution"?
100
The philosophical basis of Marxism. It basically states that every economic order grows to a state of maximum efficiency while at the same time create factors that contribute to its decay.
What is dialectical materialism?
200
A mixture of principle and expediency, a social policy by the Bolsheviks in which they nationalized some of the largest industrial enterprises but left the bulk under the control of workers' committees.
What is "war communism"?
200
Agreement through which Belarus declared independence on March 25, 1918 and formed the Belarusian People's Republic. One of the first attempts to "westernize" Belarus
What was the treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
200
Name given to the principles of internal organization used by Leninist political parties. The democratic aspect: freedom to discuss about anything but once the policy or whatever is passed they must uphold it without complaint (communistic aspect)
What is democratic centralism?
200
First exiled to Siberia, then banished from the U.S.S.R. Murdered in Mexico in 1940 under mysterious circumstances.
What was the exile of Trotsky?
200
aka the "Stalin Constitution", granted universal voting rights, the right to work, rest and leisure, health care, old age, sickness, education, and housing.
What was the 1936 constitution?
300
Believed that ___ was a temporary madness that with little effort could be stopped. Wanted to bring Russia back into the war against Germany (by launching a military intervention in East Asia, through Vladivostok).
What was the Allied response to Bolshevism?
300
Established in 1922 and disbanded in 1991, it was the first state to be based on Marxist socialism. The party's politburo basically ran the entire country and its general secretary was the country's most powerful ruler. Also known as the USSR. Consisted of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
What was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republiks
300
In Marxist terms, it was to carry out the dictatorship of the proletariat, to lead the people as a whole to the realization of socialism and, to coordinate the ponderous mechanism of government and make it work.
What was the function of the Communist Party?
300
Lost their lives, required to accept a program of austerity and self-denial, housing, and other consumer goods that might have been produced.
What were some of the sacrifices enemies of the system had to face?
300
The government agency that created the Soviet enforced forced labor camps.
What are Gulags?
400
War that lasted until 1920, even later in some places. Became a confused melee in which the Bolsheviks struggled against Russian opponents, independence-minded nationalities, and foreign intervention.
What was the Civil War of 1918?
400
Ukraine lost this war because the Soviet Union intervened and thus had to become part of the Soviet Union.
What was the result of the civil war in Ukraine in 1919?
400
Became less the revolutionary firebrand type than the successful and efficient man or woman in any social system, represented the satisfied, not the dissatisfied, enjoyed extensive material priveleges.
What was the change of attitude among party members?
400
Factory managers who failed to show the net income upon which the plan counted, or who failed to meet their quotas of output could lose their jobs, social statuses, and even their lives. Failure to do so was often construed as sabotage.
What was the consequence of poor management?
400
Russian marxist, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician, he was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the "Moscow Trials" and the "old purges"
Who is Bukharin?
500
Response to civil and foreign war also known as the Bolshevik Terror. Thousands were shot merely as hostages and others were killed without recognition. Aimed at the physical extermination of all who opposed the new regime. Succeeded in making a new regime.
What was the Red Terror?
500
The USSR killed all those involved and abolished any remaining thoughts about ______.
What was the USSR's response to the threat of nationalism?
500
All land is owned by the state, no land can be exchanged through transactions, the State grants the right to use land, there is no time limit save for the condition of the purpose of the use of land, the land is free of charge.
What was the land law dictated by the State?
500
Purges
What was the method Stalin used to exterminate his opposition?
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