Life in Imperial Russia
Russian word for king; Nicholas II was the last:
What is Tsar?
Marx believed history was a struggle between these two groups:
What are the rich and the poor?
OR
What are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?
This bald-headed Marxist led the Bolshevik Revolution and became the first leader of the USSR:
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
The Soviet leader that won the power struggle after Lenin died. He killed more people than Hitler
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The last name of the last family to rule Russia.
What is Romanov?
Disastrous war that Russia fought in 1914:
What is World War I?
Where Marx was born:
What is Germany?
What Lenin ordered to be done to the Tsar and his family:
What is execution?
The name of the process in which farmers were expected to leave their land and move to super farms and produce food.
What is collectivization?
Stalin knew that Russia was behind the times. This was his process for getting ahead technologically
What is industrialization/5 Year Plans?
The Romanovs were the last of this type of monarch in Europe
What is divine right?
Marx's term for the workers/poor:
What is proletariat?
This country helped Lenin return to Russia to stir up trouble and help them beat Russia in WWI:
What is Germany?
Hitler famously used the concentration camps and gas to kill his enemies. This was Stalin's preferred method
What is starvation?
Central Europe depends on Russia to sell these resources to them, otherwise the lights don't turn on:
What are oil and natural gas?
Who Russia fought a disastrous war against in 1904/1905:
Who is Japan?
Marx's term for the rich/owners of the means of production:
What is bourgeoisie?
What Lenin promised the Russian people:
What are Peace, Land, and Bread?
Where Stalin sent his political rivals and other people that opposed him:
What is the Gulag?
This group was made up of Tsarists, business people, religious people, and foreigners that definitely did not want to see Communism succeed.
Who are the Whites?
At this event the Russian people finally figured out the Tsar was not on their side. The machine guns made things clear!
What was Bloody Sunday?
Marx's other famous writing besides the Communist Manifesto:
What is Das Kapital?
What "Bolshevik" literally (and ironically) means:
What is "majority"?
The Soviet spy organization of the Soviet Union. Arch-enemy of CIA and former employer of Putin
What is the KGB?
The Tsar's secret police
What is Okhrana?