Command Terms
A term that inidcates a simple numbered inventory with no explanation or analysis, full sentences not requird.
What is a 'List'?
Filthy capitlist pigs.
Who are the Bourgoise?
Two political parties that aimed to raise class-consciousness among industrial workers by using Marxist theory.
What are the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks?
An imperialist war fought to benefit the bougoise. Support of this cost the provisional government public support.
What was WWI?
Sometimes called 'Bloody Sunday' this was a general strike that evolved into violent revolution, caused by the build up of Marxist ideology amongst the working class.
What was the 1905 Revolution?
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What is "Outline"?
A nation that was ceded by Russia during the civil war, costing them 89% of Iron Ore and Coal reserves, and 54% of industrial enterprise.
What is Ukraine?
A militant political group that favoured revolutionary violence and contributed to the creation of the St Petersburg (1905) and the Petrograd (1917) Soviets.
Who were the Bolsheviks?
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
What is capitalism?
A treaty that helped Russia retreat from WWI. Paralysed the Sovnarkom causing wide-spread discontent. Shattered the alliance between Bolsheviks and Left Socialist Revolutionaries which thus removed the illusion that the Bolsheviks were democratic.
What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
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What is 'Explain'?
A group of people, easily politicised by Marxist ideas due their oppression and exploitation by the bourgoise.
What are the proletariat?
A political party that excelled in organising ilelgal trade unions and strike action, leading to the general strike of 1905 which forced the Tsar to intorduce democratic reforms to the country.
Who were the Mensheviks?
An ideology that aimed to show how autocracy and capitalism were inherently exploitative, that suggested that the exploited class would eventually overthrow the exploiters.
What is Marxism?
An uprising of the "reddest of the red" which called into question the committment of the Sovnarkom to the revilutionary ideas.
What was the Kronstadt revolt?
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What is 'analyse'?
A group of people who were used to violently suppress oppostion to the autocratci rule of Russia.
Who were 'Soldiers'?
A political party established in 1898 inspired by Karl Marx's criticism of Capitalism.
What is the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party?
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
What is socialism?
Lenin's manifesto that outlined the path to revolution as being one of educating the socialist spirit of the masses.
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What is 'evaluate'?
They're dead.
The Romnovs.
The People's commissar of Foreign affairs, was instrumental in the use of the army to restore order and discipline, attempted to spread socialist propaganda to foregin nations, justified the use of terror and less individual freedom to shape the new society. Responsible for the brutal suppression of Kronstadt sailors.
Who is Trotsky?
A catchcall used by Lenin to promote better conditions but also to spread class consciousness.
What was 'Peace, Land, Bread'
Russia's withdrawal from WWI led to the intervention of foreign nations during the civil war, challenging the consolidation of Bolshevik power.
What is foregin intervention during the civil war?