Title of the unlimited emperors of Russia from 1500s until 1917.
What is a czar?
100
The Soviet Union’s first leader of the Communist Party
Who is Lenin?
100
Citizens make all economics decisions based on the needs of the people.
What is market economy?
100
a greatly feared leader of the Soviet Union whose rule was as tough as steel
Who is Stalin?
100
Treaty of friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance
What is Warsaw Pact?
200
Peter the Great moved the capital of Moscow to this port city.
What is St. Petersburg?
200
the working class
What is the proletariat?
200
Can only choose from one political party such as the Communist Party
What is one-party system?
200
policy of forcing people to adopt the Russian language and culture.
What is Russification?
200
honesty; openness
What is glasnost
300
Name two potential types of government that existed in the Russian Empire.
What is monarchy and oligarchy?
300
Lenin did these two things to gain legitimacy after overthrowing the Provisional Government.
What is signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and gave back the land to the peasants.
300
controlled by a foreign power, example Eastern European countries
What is a puppet government?
300
Post-war instability and the Soviet threat gave rise to this Western European defense organization
What is NATO?
300
Gorbachev’s attempt to reform the economy
What is Perestroika?
400
Created by Ivan the Terrible and freed by Alexander the II; in return, given poor land and high taxes.
What is a serf?
400
Socialist revolutionaries who became Communists under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
400
Adopted by the Soviets so that the central government can make all economic decisions
What is a command economy?
400
Soviet-owned property that employed large numbers of people
What is a collective farm?
400
The first president of a democratic Russia.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
500
Occurred in 1905 when the peasants charged the government buildings expressing their grievances.
What is Bloody Sunday
500
Inspired Lenin and Stalin with his belief in a socialist revolution and establishing a communist world.
Who is Karl Marx?
500
This type of government and this type of economic system support each other, as the government, allowing only one political party, makes all economics decisions.
What are totalitarianism and communism?
500
A period of non-aggression mostly between the Soviet Union and the United States. List the dates for full credit.
What is the Cold War? 1953-1991.
500
This war ended upon the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.