People
Groups
Ideas
Stalinism
Wild
100
An autocrat and a poor leader, forced to abdicate, executed with his family by the Communists.
Who is Czar Nicholas?
100
The name for the political party Lenin led. Eventually became the Communists. wanted a worldwide revolution.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
100
form of government, those in power have absolute control, they attempt to regulate every part of their citizens' lives
What is Totalitarian?
100
Stalin's secret police that went around ruthlessly suppressing all opposition to his rule. Captured, tried and executed thousands and thousands of people
What is the Cheka?
100
communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty. Political officers in the army
What are commissars?
200
A strange mystic who hung around the royal family. Favored by the Czarina. Very difficult to kill.Turned the people against the royal family
Who is Rasputin?
200
The socialists of Russia, moderates, in power before the Communists, led by Kerensky.
Who are the Mensheviks?
200
All economic decisions are made by a small group of experts and politicians, the opposite of a market economy.
What is a command economy?
200
Wealthy peasant farmers killed by Stalin because they resisted his policies. Perhaps as many as ten million were starved.
Who are the Kulaks?
200
Grand schemes created by Stalin aimed at building heavy industry, improving transportation and increasing farm output.
What are Five Year Plans?
300
Father of Communism. Wrote the Communist Manifesto, died before the Revolution, inspired Lenin.
Who is Karl Marx?
300
Councils of soldiers, workers and revolutionaries set up in cities. Eventually the country will be named after them.
What are the Soviets?
300
After the Civil War Lenin allowed some capitalist ventures to occur including allowing his people to sell excess grain. It was very different from the communism he promised
What is the New Economic Policy?
300
The Siberian prisons were people were sent when they resisted Stalin's rule. The Russian concentration camp.
What is a gulag?
300
Was the name of the poem Alexander Blok wrote that would go on to be one of his most famous works. Meant to reflect the number of Apostles of Jesus Christ, heavy with Symbolism
What is The Twelve?
400
First leader of the Communist/Bolsheviks. A lawyer sent from exile in Switzerland to start a Revolution in Russia. Died in 1922.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
400
Growing class of factory and railroad workers, the name given to them by Karl Marx, in opposition to the bourgeoisie
Who are the proletariat?
400
Communist international, groups in other countries meant to spark a global revolution
What is the Comintern?
400
Stalin had many loyal communists and Red Army generals killed, some were executed after elaborate show trials performed to instill fear in the people.
What is the Great Purge?
400
A technique used in film form, poster form or on the radio to convince people to join a cause or to convince them the cause of the government is just.
What is propaganda?
500
Founder and organizer of the Red Army, forced into exile by Stalin, excellent writer and speaker.
Who is Trotsky?
500
The two factions that fought in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1921, they sound very colorful.
What are the Red and White factions?
500
During the film we watched, these men were very loyal to the Bolsheviks and Lenin. Eventually they turned against the Revolution and were killed by the Red Army. They worked at this profession before the Revolution.
Who are the Kronstadt sailors?
500
The farmers were gathered together, their equipment was shared. Large farms operated by peasants, highly inefficient.
What are collectives?
500
Name of George Orwell's classic book where horses, pigs and other creatures rise up against their tormentors. Home of Napoleon, Snowball and Boxer.
What is Animal Farm?
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