War that lasted from 1914-1918 that engaged a majority of the world; the assassination of an archduke sparked the beginning of it
What is World War 1?
100
Government that has total control over every aspect of people's lives
What is totalitarianism?
100
Name of Russia beginning with Lenin's rule; changed back to Russia in 1991
What is the Soviet Union or USSR?
100
Bolshevik army during the Russian Civil War
What is the Red Army?
200
Ruled the Soviet Union with a totalitarian form of government; used censorship, propaganda and terror to ensure obedience
Who is Joseph Stalin?
200
War between Russia and Japan that began over a dispute for Manchuria and Korea; caused Russian people to lose confidence in their government
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
200
Party based on the ideas that property should not be privately owned and that each person is paid according to their ability and needs; formerly the Bolshevik party
What is the communist party?
200
Type of government that Nicholas II and the Romanov family had ruled with for 300 years; Czar or king is head of nation and has absolute power
What is an absolute monarchy?
200
Army that was supported by the US, France and Japan during the Russian Civil War
What is the White Army?
300
Mystic and self proclaimed "holy man" from Siberia; tainted the credibility of the monarchy; was eventually assassinated
Who is Rasputin?
300
Group of unarmed workers led by a priest that were fired upon by the czar's guards at his winter palace
What is Bloody Sunday?
300
A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force
What is a dictator?
300
Economic plan proposed by Vladimir Lenin
What is the New Economic Plan (NEP)?
300
Provisional government set up after Bloody Sunday to appease the workers; not utilized until after the February Revolution
What is the Duma?
400
Wife of Nicholas II; Ruled Russia with Rasputin's aide while the czar went to the front lines during World War 1
Who is Czarina Alexandra?
400
Arrest, exile, or killing of thousands of suspected enemies of Stalin and the communist party
What is the Great Purge?
400
The working class; Karl Marx suggested that they would eventually overthrow the upper class
What is the proletariat?
400
Plans to develop the Soviet Union's economy; Stalin's economic plan
What are the Five-Year Plans?
400
A jointly, operated collection of farms that is controlled by the government
What is a collective farm?
500
Head of the Duma (provisional government); Made the unpopular decision to remain in World War 1
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
500
Revolution that overthrew the Duma and brought the Bolsheviks into power
What is the October Revolution?
500
Writer of the Communist Manifesto that Lenin based a lot of his ideas from
Who is Karl Marx?
500
Local councils consisting of workers, soldiers and peasants
What is a soviet?
500
Economy in which the government makes all of the economic decisions