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Crash Course 37: Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions
Russian Revolution
The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union
Communist Feminism
Global Communism
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Who won the Chinese civil war?
The Communists
100
What were the Bolsheviks calling their party by 1921?
Communist
100
What does "glasnost" translate to in English?
Openness
100
Who retained the burden of housework and child care?
Women
100
Who inspired communism?
Karl Marx
200
What was self-strengthening?
A strand of reform that called for China to adopt European military technology and education systems
200
Who were the Bolsheviks led by?
Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin)
200
Who became the general secretary in 1985?
Mikhail Gorbachev
200
What does the CCP stand for?
Chinese Communist Party
200
What 2014 film is about two men going into a communist nation to assassinate its leader?
The Interview
300
Who was the father of "Communist China"?
Mao Zedong
300
Who was forced to abdicate his role in government in February 1917?
Tsar Nicholas II
300
When did the democratization of The Soviet Union occur?
1989
300
What was the women's department called that was set up by the USSR's Communist Party in 1919
Zhenotdel
300
What is the name of the treaty that was established between the USSR and China in 1950?
The Treaty of Friendship
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In what year did the Chinese Republic end 3,000 years of dynastic history and break the cyclical pattern previously used to understand their past?
1911
400
During the civil war name three things that the Bolsheviks did?
Regimented the economy, suppressed nationalist rebellions, they committed atrocities, integrated many lower-class men into the Red Army and into local governments, claimed to defend Russia from imperialists as well as from internal exploiters, and strengthened their tendency towards authoritarianism
400
Many continue to debate whether the Russian and Chinese revolutions were beneficial and whether the late twentieth-century reforms were good or bad, name one positive and one negative of communism. (Look at the chapter outline if you have it and "reflect" upon the chapter)
Positive- Communism brought hope to millions Negative- Communism killed and imprisoned millions
400
Who abolished the Women's Department in 1930?
Stalin
400
When was communism's height and how much of the world population was governed by communist regimes?
1970, 1/3
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In what city were 28,332 people executed between October 1950 and August 1951 as possible spies and/or counterrevolutionaries?
Guangdong
500
What is the title of the 2008 movie about a naval officer who falls in love with the wife of his colleague during the Russian Revolution?
Admiral
500
Name at least four out of the five currently communist countries.
China, Cuba, North Korea, Laos, and Vietnam
500
What was granted with the Marriage Law of 1950? (Name at least three things)
Free choice in marriage, easier divorce, the end of concubinage and child marriage, equal property rights for marriage
500
By what theory is communism defined as the final stage of historical development, with full development of social equality and collective living?
The Marxist Theory