Stalin’s Rise and Rule
This Georgian-born leader took a name meaning "man of steel" and eventually became the dictator of the Soviet Union.
Who is Stalin?
This became the official policy of the Soviet state regarding religion, in accordance with the ideas of Marx.
What is atheism?
This weak and ineffectual czar blocked attempts to limit his authority and eventually abdicated in 1917.
Who is Nicholas II?
This radical revolutionary leader returned to Russia in 1917 and adapted Marxism to fit Russian conditions.
Who is Lenin?
In this type of economy, government officials make all basic economic decisions.
What is Command Economy?
This type of state is a one-party dictatorship that attempts to regulate every aspect of its citizens' lives.
What is Totalitarian?
his style of art, which Stalin forced on artists and writers, aimed to show Soviet life in a positive and hopeful light.
What is socialist realism?
This "mad monk" and illiterate Siberian peasant gained great influence over the czarina due to his apparent ability to heal her son.
Who is Rasputin?
The emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition generally in the cases of new nations or following the collapse of the previous governing administration.
What is the Provisional government?
Stalin launched a series of these plans to build heavy industry, improve transportation, and increase farm output.
What is the 5 year plans?
These were the large, state-owned farms where peasants were forced to work together under Stalin's plan for agriculture.
What is Collectives?
This group, consisting of party members, military leaders, and scientists, became the new ruling class with special privileges.
What is the social elite?
This was the term for the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners that Marxists hoped to lead in revolution.
What is proletariat?
These were the councils of workers and soldiers set up by revolutionary socialists in Petrograd and other cities.
What are soviets?
These were the brutal labor camps where critics and "grumblers" were sent under Stalin's regime.
What is the Gulag or Labor Camps?
In this 1934 campaign of terror, Stalin cracked down on "Old Bolsheviks" and anyone else he suspected of disloyalty.
What is the Great Purge?
Although they gained equality under the law, Soviet women were expected to shoulder this "double load" of responsibilities.
What were full-time jobs and housework/childcare?
This inherited disorder, which afflicted the young prince Alexis, causes uncontrollable bleeding from even minor injuries.
What is hemophilia?
This treaty gave land to the Germans and ended WWI for Russia.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk?
This was the secret police force organized by the Communists to execute ordinary citizens suspected of taking action against the revolution.
What is the Cheka?
This term refers to the wealthy peasants that Stalin sought to "liquidate" as a class during collectivization.
Who are the kulaks?
This was the name of the Communist party newspaper, which translates to "Truth".
What is Pravda?
The Russian Revolution began in March 1917 with these types of spontaneous riots in the capital.
What are food riots?
This brilliant Marxist thinker and architect of the Bolshevik Revolution was Stalin's chief rival for power after Lenin’s death.
Who is Trotsky?
This international organization was formed by Lenin to encourage and aid worldwide communist revolutions.
What is the Comintern?