Before the Revolution
The food demanded by civilians as they marched through the streets of czarist Russia.
What is bread?
The people executed by the Communists to ensure there would be no return to the czarist period.
What was the royal family or the Romanovs?
The color name for the Czarists who waged an unsuccessful civil war with the Communist Reds.
Who were the Whites?
The man who became the dictator and tyrant of the Soviet Union.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
The war that "broke the camel's back" and started the Russian Revolution.
What was World War I?
A leader of the Russian Revolution and the man who introduced the nation to communism.
Who was Lenin?
This government action blocks information that it believes is harmful to the nation.
What is censorship?
The name given to acts of mass arrests, imprisonment and/or murder committed by the Soviet Union against any enemies, real or imaginary
What were purges?
The last czar of Russia.
Who was Nicholas II?
The man who was hated by most of Russia because of his close relationship to the royal family.
Who was Rasputin?
A type of media that encourages people to think a certain way.
What is propaganda?
It was the political police of the Soviet Union before the creation of the KGB.
What was the NKVD?
While Russia had men, money and material it lacks this fourth M; a major need for revolution for a backwards nation.
What is modernization?
Radical councils set up in the cities by the revolutionaries to better manage local affairs.
What are Soviets?
The nation formerly possessed by Russia but was able to break away from it after the collapse of the czarist government.
What is Poland?
The prison camps where millions would be shipped to for hard labor and, sometimes, their deaths.
What was the gulag?
This German writer, along with Frederik Engels, wrote the Communist Manifesto which heavily influenced Russian revolutionaries.
Who was Karl Marx?
The communist revolutionaries who would topple the czar with the help of the Red Guard and the military.
Who were the Bolsheviks?
The policy introduced by Lenin to bolster business using capitalistic means.
What is the New Economic Policy or NEP?
The time plan policies that Stalin set up to improve quantity production in industry and farming.
What were the 5-Year Plans?
The very eccentric ringleader of the group that conspired to eliminate Rasputin in order to save czarist Russia.
Who was Felix Yussupov?
Stalin’s famous quote the basically showed his belief in the lives of his people in comparison to his goals.
What was, "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic."