Vocabulary
The working class
What is Proletariat?
The last reigning Tsar, that was widely disliked
What is Tsar Nicholas II?
Russia lost this unnecessary war carried out by Tsar Nicholas II, leading to major embarrassment.
Fighting over Manchura and Korea
What is the Russo-Japanese war?
Replaced Lenin after his death
What is Joseph Stalin?
The member of the Romanov family that was believed to have survived the families execution.
What is Anastasia?
An economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society.
What is Capitalism?
The leader of the Bolsheviks and the first Dictator of the Soviet Union
What is Vladimir Lenin?
Factory workers protesting, led by Father Gabon, they were killed by Tsar Nicholas II
What is Bloody Sunday?
Lenin led the _________, a political party that sought to overthrow the existing regime and establish a socialist state
What is the Bolsheviks?
The crazy healer that the Romanov family trusted with their Empire during WWI
Who is Rasputin?
A far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
What is the Bolsheviks?
The second Dictator of Russia known for being very cruel
What is Joseph Stalin?
The name of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War
What is the Reds
Strongly influenced by _________, a political ideology that advocates for a classless society and the abolition of private property
What is Communism?
A legislative body that created laws
What is the Duma?
A system where nobles received land from the Crown and the land was then worked by peasants, who lived on the land and gave part of their harvests to the nobles.
What is Feudalism?
Known for Modernizing Russia
What is Peter the Great?
The Monarchy is overthrown
What is the February revolution?
His government also established the _________, a network of forced labor camps for political prisoners and others deemed enemies of the state
What is the Gulags?
A network of forced labor camps for political prisoners and others deemed enemies of the state
What is a Gulag?
A large area in northeastern Russia that is mountainous, cold and sparsely populated
What is Serbia?
A key figure in the Russian revolution, Joseph Stalin took him out of power and exiled him
What is Leon Trotsky?
The Bolsheviks gained power of the leftist political group
What is the October revolution?
Fought the revolution with Lenin
What is Leon Trotsky?
The secret police
What is the Cheka?