name of the campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power
What is the Great Purge?
100
the name of the group of countries fighting on the same side with Russia in WWI
What is the Allies?
What is France and Britain?
100
This group in society started the citywide strike in Petrograd which other groups joined to create the revolution
What is the women textile workers?
100
When the Red guard stormed the Winter Palace and took over government offices they arrested these people
Who is leaders of the provisional government?
200
temporary government, set up after the February/March Revolution of 1917
What is the provisional government?
200
these plans set impossibly high quotas to increase the output of steel, coal, oil and electricity
What are the 5 year plans?
200
event where 20,000 workers and their families approached the winter palace with a petition and were fired upon
What is Bloody Sunday?
200
reasons for the riots and strikes in Petrograd/St.Petersburg in 1917 (hint: shortages of 2 things)
What are shortages of bread and fuel?
200
slogan of the Bolshevik revolution (2 options)
What is "Peace, Land, Bread" or "All power to the soviets!"
300
local councils of workers in Russia
What are Soviets?
300
While all religions were attacked, this church was the main target of persecution
What is the Russian Orthodox Church?
300
major effect of Bloody Sunday
What is the creation of the Duma, or first parliament?
300
as a result of frustration from inabilities of the provisional government, these local councils of workers, peasants and soldiers was formed
What is the Soviets?
300
name of the group that stormed the winter palace
What is the Bolshevik Red Guard (Red army)?
400
The term for the working class in Marxist theory
What is the proletariat?
400
it begins with very young children and is encouraged by youth groups and then strongly enforced by schools. The "Young Communists" was an example of this tactic to mold people's minds
What is indoctrination?
400
Name of the 2 Marxist revolutionary groups
What is the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks?
400
this group arranged the return of Lenin in 1917
Who is the Bolsheviks?
400
this group fought against the Bolsheviks after the revolution, they were supported by other countries
What is the White Army?
500
term describes a government that takes centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life
What is totalitarianism?
500
Stalin used official censorship where the government controls all news, motion pictures radio and other sources of information so that all information reflected Stalin's ideas. The information that was allowed to be spread, that was approved by the communist party is called this
What is propaganda?
500
The war before WWI where Russia suffered losses
What is the Russo-Japanese war?
500
name of the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government
Who is (Alexander) Kerensky?
500
treaty that the Bolshevik government signed to end the war with Germany