Easy Vocab
Old Monarchs
Moderate Vocab
Newer Leaders
Other People
100
Title of a Russian leader, from Roman word "Caesar".
What is Czar?
100
Responsible for extreme absolute power in Russia, even killed his son.
What is Ivan the Terrible?
100
Peasants, little more than slaves, who are forced to stay on their land and couldn't leave without permission
What are serfs?
100
Weak and ineffectual leader, the last czar of Russia.
Who is Nicholas II?
100
Youngest daughter of Nicholas II, killed with the imperial family….or was she?
Who is Anastasia Romanov?
200
A disease in which the blood does not clot.
What is hemophilia?
200
Built the city of St. Petersburg, opened up Russia to the west and sometimes dressed as a peasant to find out the concerns of his people.
Who is Peter the Great?
200
The working class in Russia.
What is the proletariat?
200
Leader of the Bolsheviks, began the Russian Revolution.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
200
An illiterate peasant who passed himself off as a "holy" man, seemed able to control the Tsarevich's bleeding.
Who is Rasputin?
300
To step down from power.
What is abdicate?
300
Opened up education to both boys and girls, expanded the empire, and may have had a hand in killing spouse.
Who is Catherine the Great?
300
To get rid of that which is unnecessary.
What is purge?
300
Responsible for the deaths of up to 20 million people, took a name meaning "man of steel".
Who is Joseph Stalin?
300
Began a jewelry company that created Easter eggs for the Russian czars to give to their wives.
What is Faberge?
400
Armed factory workers.
What are Red Guards?
400
Freed the serfs.
Who is Alexander II?
400
Information, not necessarily true, used to put down an opponent, or to support a cause.
What is propaganda?
400
Broke up the USSR, granted independence to the small republics and promptly stepped down from power.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
400
The heir to the Russian throne, but would unfortunately never live to ascend…for a couple reasons.
Who is Alexei Romanov?
500
Believing in no god.
What is atheism?
500
Stopped Napoleon's take-over of Europe
Who is Alexander I?
500
The adoption of western customs, ideas, and traditions.
What is westernization?
500
Current President of Russia.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
500
The philosopher who stated that all conflict was the result of class struggle, and that the proletariat would rise up and take over the government.
Who is Karl Marx?
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