T/Czarist Russia
Grigori Efimovich, an advisor to the Czarina, is best known by his last name.
Who is Rasputin?
Lenin gathered up support from the Russian people with this three-word slogan.
What is "Peace, Love, & Bread"?
The Bolsheviks adopted this color as a symbol.
What is red?
The name Stalin means this in Russia.
What is "man of steel"?
This general led the provisional government.
Who is Kerensky?
This Tzar/Czar led Russia into WWI and lost the throne.
Who is Nicholas II?
Lenin's original party, also the name of his second revolution in 1917.
What was the Bolshevik Party?
Marx though these people should be in charge after the revolution.
Who are/is the working class/Bolsheviks?
Under Stalin, 2+2 = these plans to industrialize.
What are the five-year plans?
This group of wealthy peasants was largely killed by Stalin.
Who are/is the Kulaks?
Nicholas II abdicated in this month and year.
What is March 1917?
This group of communists were less radical than the Bolsheviks.
Who is/are the Mensheviks?
Lenin decreed: "Particular obstructive workers who refuse to submit to disciplinary measures will be subject as non-workers, to discharge and confinement" in these.
What are gulags?
This percentage of peasants were displaced onto collective farms.
What is 90%?
In order to receive a medal, women in Communist Russia had to have at least this number of kids.
What is 6?
Many Jews immigrated to the United States to escape these groups.
What are pogroms?
After he took power of the provisional government, Kerensky was unpopular for doing this.
What is keeping Russia in WWI?
Lenin enacted this policy which took "one step backward to take two steps forward" and allowed small-scale capitalism
What is the New Economic Policy?
Stalin's removal of "enemies" that killed or imprisoned millions of people was called this.
What is the Great Purge?
Local councils that consisted of workers, peasants, and soldiers were called this.
What is/are soviets?
The last two t/czars had this kind of rule, meaning they had absolute power.
What is an autocracy / autocratic?
Lenin signed this secret treaty with the Germans to end Russia's involvement in WWI.
What is Brest-Livtosk?
Two of the many rights that women obtained after the early adoption of communism.
What are: education, divorce, freedom to work, professional jobs, equal pay, &/or childcare?
In Stalinist Russia, this major religion was outlawed.
What is Russian Orthodox(y)?
Women's role in communist Russia changed in the 1930s largely due to this.
What is the high number of deaths?