Stalin
Stalin held this position in the Politburo
The general secretary
The definition of Soviets is?
Councils made up of representatives from workers and soldiers.
The October revolution was led by?
Lenin.
NEP
New Economic Policy
Trotsky reinstated this during the civil war
The draft
Stalin's defeat of Trotsky and change of Economic Policy is known as what?
The Great Break
The Great Purge is?
When Stalin Remove/Murdered all opponents.
Lenin believed only what kind of revolution could destroy the capitalist system?
Violent.
Soviet Union
The Cheka were?
The Red Secret Police
Stalin is known as ________, by those closest to him. Double points if you can explain the back story.
Koba - The name stems from a character in The Patricide (or Father Killer), a, Georgian peasant fighter who battles for independence.
War communism is?
Government control of banks, industries, centralization.
The purpose of the October Revolution was to overthrow what?
The Provisional Government
Tsar (full name)
Nicholas II Romanov
Alexandra Romanov was influenced by?
Rasputin
Stalin's 5 year plan's prioritised which industries? You must only name one, double points if you can name them all.
Steel, coal, electricity, machinery
The Bolsheviks were?
Small faction of a Marxist party called The Russian Social Democrats.
Lenin signed this treaty
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk
C.C
Central Commitee
Name one type of farm under Stalin's collectivisation policy. Double points if you name both.
Kolkhoz and Sovkhoz
This was a system in which private farms were eliminated and the governement owned all of their land.
Collectivization.
The meaning of Politburo is?
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Bolshivicks renamed themselves the?
The communists.
USSR
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
What was Kerensky's role?
Head the provisional gov. after the Tsar was ousted.