What is went to war with Japan (Russo-Japanese War)
100
Lenin was in exile in Switzerland when German agents smuggled him back into Russia. Why?
What is because the Germans knew Lenin would take Russia out of WWI if he came to power; also acceptable, Lenin would cause political chaos in Russia and make Russia weak
100
Stalin's elimination of Old Bolsheviks, army leaders, artists and writers -- and eventually regular citizens
What is The Great Purge
100
The definition of a totalitarian state
What is a state in which the government controls all aspects of its citizen's lives?
100
Lenin's secret police force
What is the Cheka?
200
On January 22, 1905, his troops fired into a crowd of unarmed people, an event known as
What is "Bloody Sunday"?
200
Lenin felt Marx's ideas needed to be adapted to fit Russia's situation in this way . . .
What is by having an elite group of "professional revolutionaries" like himself lead a peasant revolution, not a worker revolution as Marx believed
200
Stalin's economic plan was called the 5-Year Plan. Name the first goal (how he tried to achieve it, was he successful)?
What is increasing heavy industry by moving mass numbers of workers to huge industrial complexes, forcing labor by meeting quotas and using propaganda and fear. It was a success
200
Controlling the spread of ideas
What is censorship?
200
These Communist agents were assigned to Red Army units to ensure that they fought hard during the Russian Civil War
Who are commissars?
300
He was here while his wife was listening to Rasputin's advice
What is on the front lines of WWI?
300
Lenin and his group, the Bolsheviks, did this in November 1917
What is overthrow the provisional government and make Russia a socialist nation
300
The second goal of Stalin's 5-Year plan (how he tried to achieve it, was it successful)
What is to increase agriculture through collectivization and supplying peasants with seed, fertilizer, equipment and livestock. It failed because kulaks opposed it and Stalin killed them
300
Stalin was a master of this, which means spreading false or misleading information in order to support a cause or an idea
What is propaganda?
300
Stalin's policy of combining farmland and forcing peasants to work it together
What is collectivization?
400
Nicholas stopped the Revolution of 1905 with his October Manifesto, which promised this
What is the creation of a law-making assembly for Russia (The Duma) and a constitution
400
Lenin and the Communists (The Reds) were opposed by 18 groups collectively known as The Whites, such as . . . (name three of these groups)
Who are The Allies (US, Britain, Japan); Mensheviks; ethnic groups seeking autonomy; royalists who wanted the czar back
400
The wealthy peasants that opposed Stalin and HOW they opposed him
Who are the kulaks, who opposed Stalin by burning extra grain, destroying equipment, and killing livestock. He killed millions through starvation
400
Two BENEFITS of live in the totalitarian Soviet Union under Stalin
What is free healthcare, free education, low-cost housing, pensions and low unemployment, lots of recreational activities provided by the government
400
Like Lenin, they wanted Russia to become a socialist nation; unlike Lenin, they felt it could be done through government reforms, not revolution
Who were the Mensheviks?
500
Three problems plaguing Nicholas II throughout his reign
What are: not industrializing Russia; using censorship and a secret police force; dismissing the Duma; refusing a constitution for Russia; not dealing with land issues of peasants or reforms for workers; WWI and disaster?
500
Lenin's policy of "war communism" called for this
What is drafting peasants into the Red Army, forcing peasants into factories and onto farmlands to work; seizing grain, factories, banks, railroads, etc.
500
Karl Marx's ideas of communism
What is workers of the world (proletariat) will unite, overthrow the rich (bourgeoisie) and create a classless, socialist society where society as a whole owns and operates the means of production
500
Four drawbacks of life in the totalitarian Soviet Union under Stalin
What is censorship and propaganda; constant state of fear of arrest and secret police; low-quality consumer goods and food shortages; inequality between members of the Communist Party and everyone else
500
How Lenin's NEP worked
What is 1/2 capitalism (small businesses are okay and peasants can sell extra grain for profit) and 1/2 communism (the government controlled large industries, mines, railroads, etc.)?