Reds
He was the first leader of the newly formed Soviet Union after the Bolsheviks' victory in the Civil War.
Who was Lenin?
This was the century in which the Emancipation of the Serfs took place.
What is the 19th Century?
A prisoner in the Gulag
What is a zek?
The USSR's gains in the space race and the Russian people's willingness to stand in line for bread can be positioned on this continuum.
He was responsible for the Soviet policy of rapid industrialization in the Great Turning Point...but also for the Great Terror.
Who was Stalin?
This major intellectual and cultural movement completely bypassed Russia.
What was the Renaissance?
The island monastery used as a political prison from the 16th Century onward, including by the Bolsheviks.
What was Solovetsky?
Solzhenitsyn, a writer who loved his country but hated its government, is an example of a complex position on this continuum.
What is Patriotism/Dissidence?
His de-Stalinization policies opened up a Thaw in Soviet domestic policy.
Who was Khrushchev?
Liike Stalin many centuries later, this early Russian Czar looked toward the West for models of what his country should be.
Who was Peter the Great?
The region of the Soviet Union in which most Gulag camps were situated.
Peter the Great drawing influence from the French and Russian Romanticist poets rejecting Europe both point to positions on this continuum.
What is Eastern/Western?
This Soviet official and close confidant of Stalin was assassinated, leading to the Flood of arrests named after him.
Who was Kirov?
The virtual enslavement of the Russian people from the 13th through the 15th Centuries was known by this name.
What was the Tatar Yoke?
Political prisoners were known by this term, whose source was the section of the Soviet code that they had violated.
What were 58s?
Who was Edward Said?
Glasnost and Perestroika were the policy highlights of his tenure as leader of the Soviet Union.
Who was Gorbachev?
He was the last of the Czars.
Who was Nicholas II?
What is "katorga"?
This term describes an oversimplified schema which is nonetheless useful for preliminary learning, like the three dimensions model
What is "heuristic"?