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High School Musical
100
This man was the leader of the Communist/ Bolshevik party and helped establish Russia as the first Marxist state.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
100
This term refers to the laboring class who does not see the fruits of their labor. They are the blue collar workers of this time.
What is a Proletariat?
100
This event took place during the Russian Revolution of 1905. 200,000 protestors organized a march on the tsar's winter palace demanding reform and bread. The military fired on the crowd, killing 500 to 1000 unarmed people.
What is Bloody Sunday?
100
This is the Russian currency that was brought onto the gold Standard in 1897 during the Great Spurt.
What is the Rouble?
100
This person is the captain of the basketball team, and enjoys singing in his spare time. He is often show with long hair and always seems to break out into song when he catches "the feels".
Who is Troy Bolton?
200
This man was a ruthless leader of Russia who led them through WWII as a totalitarian dictator. His policies included killing nearly 8 to 13 million people, 5 year plans, and a forced agricultural revolution.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
200
This group of people are the owners of the means of production in any state. They are the rich, the wealthy and the powerful.
What is the bourgeois?
200
This war was fought between Russia and Japan to establish imperial rule over parts of China and Russia. This military loss proved to be the fatal to Russian confidence in their military.
What is the Russo-Japanese war?
200
This style of mass reform in Russia brought the nation out of an agrarian style of living and ushered in an era of industrialization. The number of factories during this period nearly doubled.
What is the Great Spurt?
200
This woman is the female lead of the movie who enjoy long mathematic equations and has a passion for science. She sings a duet with the male lead at the beginning of the movie, sparking their romance
Who is Gabriela Montes?
300
This man was one of the leaders of the Communist party, but was exiled by his political opponent. He was later killed in Mexico by an Ice Pick.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
300
This term is supposedly the root of all problems in communism as supposedly people clash due to class warfare established under this system.
What is the Industrial revolution?
300
Russia's participation in this war generated more than 4 million casualties; most of these casualties were due to poor leadership and ill-equipped troops entering battle.
What is World War I?
300
This document was issued by Tsar Nicolas II at the close of the Russian Revolution on 1905. This document created the Russian Duma and guaranteed civil liberties to the people.
What is the October Manifesto?
300
This ficticious school is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is the main setting for the entire movie.
What is East High?
400
This man was long considered a mad monk. He supposedly possessed healing powers that were uncanny. These skills brought him into the Russia palace, where he earned reputation for raping noble women. He was later shot and drowned, but did not die.
Who is Rasputin?
400
This is supposedly the ideological opposite of communism; Marx wrote an entire expose on this style of government and how it would sow the seeds of it's own destruction.
What is Capitalism?
400
This Revolution is an event whereby the Russian tsar left his throne after being turned on by the military. He was forced out of the palace and sent to Yekaterinberg.
What is the February revolution?
400
This was always a big problem for Russia during the early 20th centuries. Given Russia's sheer size, there was no sense of unity or belonging. This changed in 1922 when Russia and its other republics were absorbed under the name USSR.
What is nationalism?
400
This song is the song The two main characters sing on the stage of a play after finishing their respective meets. The male lead grabs a mic while still wearing his basketball warm-ups, and the female lead enters wearing a lab coat. This song speaks about changing the ways in which stereotypes stop high school students.
What is Breaking Free (Soaring, flying)
500
This man was the figurative leader of the Duma, a legislative body in Russia. The power in Russia was split between his provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet.
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
500
This aspect of communism is an area of debate; some agree that there should be complete sharing of all goods within a society while others agree that the government should select which things are shared.
What is communal sharing?
500
This Revolution was virtually bloodless as the Bolsheviks took power of the government. The new government, as lead by Vladimir Lenin, established Russia as the world's first Marxist state.
What is the October revolution?
500
This was the official title given to Russia and its republics between 1922 and 1991.In acronym form, it is know as the USSR.
What is the United Soviet Satellite Republics?
500
This song is the end song of the movie. As the school gathers to celebrate the victory of the basketball team and the scholastic decathalon, the whole school breaks out in song. School pride is abundant as "wildcats, everywhere put their hands up in the air".
What is We're all in this together?
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