Russian History
Religion Vladimir chose for Russia
What is the Orthodox Church?
For hundreds of years this was the title for the Romanov leader
What is a tsar or czar?
Brought the Bolsheviks to power
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
What is Stalin?
Used executions, deportation, burning of homes, and other means to force compliance with government demands
Who were the Soviet secret police and the army?
The center of the early Russian state
What is Kiev?
The last Romanov ruler
Who was Nicholas II?
Lenin was exiled here
What is Switzerland?
Method used by Stalin to eliminate threats and potential threats
What are Purges?
Stalin's programs to turn the country back toward socialism by attempting to increase industry and government oversight
What are the Five-Year Plans?
The Russian language was based on this alphabet
What is the Slavic Alphabet?
Religious charlatan who gave bad advice to Alexandra
Who was Rasputin?
Disciple of Lenin and rival of Stalin
Who was Leon Trotsky?
Program to spread the Communist Party to other European countries
What is Communist International or Comintern?
Bringing agriculture under central government control
What is collectivization?
Early Russia reached its zenith under this person
Who was Yaroslav the Wise?
Tsarevich Alexei struggled with this
What is hemophilia?
Treaty that withdrew the Russians from World War I
What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Place where Stalin sent his enemies
What are the Gulags?
Viewed by Lenin as "unutterable vileness"
What is the idea of God?
Name given to bands of Swedish Norsemen by the Slavs and Byzantines
Who are the Varangians?
1905 violent end to reform protests at the Winter Palace
What was Bloody Sunday?
Place where the Romanovs were killed
What is Yekaterinburg?
Stalin's real name
Who was Joseb Jughasvili?
Approximate number of Communist Party members killed in the purges
What is 800,000?