Causes
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Empire of Russia between these years...
1904-1905
The first leader of the Soviet Union who died of a heart attack in 1924.
Vladimir Lenin
Under Stalin, ___________campaigns that portrayed capitalists as evil, greedy men, while portraying workers and farmers as heroic and noble were common.
propaganda
Name given to a government regime where the government control all aspects of life in the state.
Totalitarianism
In 1905 a protest by the workers led to the slaughter of hundreds of unarmed protesters in what came to be known as...
Bloody Sunday
The last Romanov monarch of the Soviet Union.
Tsar Nicholas II
The Russian Civil war which lasted from _____ to _____ was fought between the _______ and _______.
1917-1922/ Red and White armies.
Name given to the system used in the USSR where the state consolidated farms, and set quotas for grain production.
Collectivization
Many Russians believed that ___________ and his government were out-of-touch with the struggles of the impoverished Russian masses.
Tsar Nicholas II
An influential leader of the Soviet Revolution who was expelled from the government and deported by Stalin for differences of political views.
Leon Trotsky
Name of event where revolutionaries defeated the royal armies in Petrograd, forcing the Tsar to step down.
The February Revolution
The goal of Collectivization was to...
Increase farming through mass production.
He was a mystical healer who was very close with the Tsar and his wife.
Grigori Rasputin
Used propaganda and terror to become the supreme totalitarian leader of the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
Joseph Stalin
The October Revolution took power from the _______ and gave it to the _______.
bourgeoisie/ proletariat.
The system used by Stalin's government to industrialize the USSR in less than a decade was known as the...
Five Year Plan
Name of political faction to which Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky belonged.
Bolsheviks
A system of labor camps maintained in the Soviet Union from 1930 t0 1955 under Joseph Stalin. Many people were exiled there and died.
Gulags
Name of Russian province where most dissenters and revolutionaries were sent to during and after the revolution.
Serbia
Name given to man-made famine caused by collectivization.
This famine majorly affected the _______ between the years _____ and ____.
Holodomor
Ukraine
1932-1933