Vocabulary
ID's
Pre-Revolution
Totalitarian State
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100
Council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian Revolutionaries.
What is a soviet?
100
"Mad Monk"; man who influenced Czarina Alexandria when Czar Nicholas II was on the front lines in World War I.
Who is Gregory Rasputin?
100
A way to describe Russia before the Revolution started. Hint: BOOM!
What is a firecracker (with a long fuse)?
100
Writings that would have been viewed as sacred during the rule of the Communist Party.
Lenin or Marx writings.
100
Fear of the Bolsheviks’ plot in the United States.
What is the Red Scare?
200
Communist party official assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty.
What is a commissar?
200
Lasted from 1934 to 1938. Stalin targeted old Bolsheviks and party activists who he perceived to be a threat. Affected 8-13 million people.
What is the Great Purge?
200
Heavy industry improved greatly by Nicholas II's policies.
What is steel?
200
Benefit of joining the Communist party
What is access to better housing, access to special stores, or best shoes?
200
In order to build a modern industrial state, the Soviet Union provided this for its civilians.
What is free education?
300
System in which government officials make all basic economic decisions.
What is a command economy?
300
Newspaper of the Communist party meaning "truth."
What is Pravda?
300
Country that helped Russia build the world's longest railway.
What is France?
300
Set by Stalin to increase production in the USSR in his Five Year Plans.
What are quotas?
300
Leader of the Bolsheviks.
Who is Lenin?
400
Belief that there is no god.
What is atheism?
400
Established by Lenin to spread communism across the world and fulfill the Marxist dream of a global revolution.
What is Comintern?
400
This war was fought over control of Manchuria and Korea. It helped pave the way for the Russian Revolution.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
400
In 1937, these public confessions became part of the Great Purge.
What are "show trials?"
400
Commander of the Red Army.
Who is Trotsky?
500
Large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group.
What is a collective?
500
Wrote a satirical verse about Stalin. Fearing his wife's safety, wrote an "Ode to Stalin."
Who is Osip Mandelstam?
500
The first revolution in Russia that started as a bread riot.
What is the March Revolution?
500
The official state religion of the USSR.
What is atheism?
500
A communist value taught in schools.
What is love for Stalin, atheism, perks of collective farming?
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