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Sometimes described as a "revolution from below," this ended Tsarist rule in 1917, which began as a series of protests against food shortages in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg).
What is The February Revolution?
January 21, 1924
Not unexpected but still shocked the nation
What is the death of Lenin?
The major economic consequences of Stalin's forced collectivization of agriculture in the early 1930s.
What is famine
A system of government that is characterised by dictatorial rule that requires complete subservience to the state and often involves a suppression of opposition
What is Totalitarianism?
During the early years of the revolution they were given wider educational opportunities, a sense of equality and encouraged to join the workforce,
What are women in the USSR?
This was the second revolution of 1917, where the Bolsheviks seized key points in Petrograd and took control of government institutions and began a period of Civil War in Russia.
What is the October Revolution?
A 'Tactical retreat'
What is the NEP?
This practice allowed the state to take control of the land and agricultural laborers then farmed it. The state took centralized control of grain production and distribution.
What is Collectivisation?
These were used to give a pretense of legality to the process of the Great Purges
What are Show Trials?
Abortion outlawed
Divorce made more difficult
Government paid child support
What is the Family Law Code (1936)?
Internationalism
Rapid transition to socialism
Dictatorship of proletariat
Worker's state
Creation of a utopian society
What is Bolshevik Ideology
"Comrade Stalin... has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution"
What is Lenin's "testament" to the Congress?
Rapid industrialisation
Central planning
Command economy
Collectivisation
Remove opposition
What are the 5 year plans?
After this person's death, Stalin launched his purge, claiming that he had uncovered a dangerous conspiracy of anti-Stalinist Communists
Who is Sergei Kirov?
A form of modern art imposed by Stalin and characterised by rigorously optimistic pictures of life in the USSR
What is 'Socialist Realism'?
He led the Red Army to victory during the civil war
Who is Leon Trotsky?
Party manoeuvring
Ideology
Cult of Lenin
Control of party bureaucracy
How did Stalin succeed against Trotsky in the post-Lenin power struggle?
The incident in early 1923 during the NEP, when there was a widening gap between industrial and agricultural prices
What is the Scissor Crisis?
A short man devoid of principles and inclined to sadistic pleasures. Also called 'The Blood Thirsty Dwarf'
Who is Nikolai Yezhov?
He was used as a model worker for other workers to look up and aspire to, but ultimately crated unrealistic expectations for workers.
Who is Alexei Stakhanov?
Political unity
Propaganda
Terror
Better access to infrastructure, communications and supply lines.
Unified Leadership
Why did the Bolsheviks win the civil war?
This term describes the extensive propaganda and praise surrounding Stalin, creating an image of him as a glorious leader.
What is Cult of Personality?
The State Planning Bureau that determined grain production quotas, prices and wages
What is the Gosplan?
The minimum age of death penalty lowered to 12.
Anyone known to be a parasite is to be executed.
What were the Kirov Decrees?
The all Union Leninist Young Communist League.
What is the Komsomol?