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Lev Bronstein!
What was Leon Trotsky's name before 1902?
A series of harsh, centralized economic measures adopted by the Communists during the Civil War.
What was War Communism?
Committees of the Poor. Groups of poor peasants who were to help the government extract grain from kulaks under War Communism.
What is Kombedy?
Peasant insurgent armies that fought against both Red and White armies in the Russian Civil War.
What are the Green armies?
A rebellion of sailors who forced a re-evaluation of Communist Party policies.
What was the Kronstadt Revolt?
I am otherwise known as Lenin.
Vladimir Ilyrich Ulyanov
A political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and collective control of most of the major means of production.
What is Communism?
The imposition of Russian Language, culture and religion on non-Russians, especially ethnic minorities in Imperial Russia.
What was Russification?
The privileged class that owns the means of production.
What is the bourgeoisie?
A petition and peaceful march led by Father Gapon on 9 January 1905.
What was Bloody Sunday?
He founded and led the Russian Communist political police agencies. In December 1917 he was appointed the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Speculation and Sabotage.
Who is Felix Dzerzhinsky?
Political movement based on the goal removing formal government. Personal independence and collectivism is valued.
What is Anarchism?
What is GULAG?
A group of soldiers stationed within a city or town; the building in which the group resides.
What is a garrison?
Misunderstandings between Kerensky and General Kornilov.
What was the Kornilov Affair?
In 1917 when the tsar abdicated, he was appointed Justice Minister in the new Provisional Government, rising to become Minister of War in May.
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
Economic system based on free market principles, in which individuals are encouraged to seek prosperity and private capital.
What is capitalism?
Tsarist secret police, charged with protecting the tsar and imperial family, investigating left-wing revolutionaries and combating terrorism.
What is the Okhrana?
Merchants and private traders who emerged during the NEP to exploit commercial opportunities.
What are NEPMEN?
This group emerged out of the populist movement in 1890s. Their support base was largely peasants and also urban working class. They primarily fought for land ownership for peasants.
Who were the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs)?
As Prime Minister he introduced sweeping agrarian reforms, legislating in 1906 to open up land to peasants in the hope of making them self-sufficient and prosperous.
Who was Pytor Stolypin?
Extreme right-wing ideology based on dictatoraship.
What is facism?
Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly.
What is the Komuch?
Group of armed workers formed by Bolsheviks in 1917. Abolished after creation of the Red Army in 1918.
What are the Red Guards?
"This is a hooligan movement".