Emergence of USSR
This political vacuum from Feb-October 1917 was marked by collapsed Tsarism and a weak Duma
What was the provisional government?
By 1922 the Soviet Union was officially a one party Leninist State ruled by this body of 20 communist party members
What is the Politburo?
Awareness of how history is sometimes used or abused to retell and promote a narrative from a point of view
What are perspectives?
Founder of the revolutionary league in 1905, he promoted 3 principles of nationalism, democracy and social welfare
Who is Sun Yatsen?
He wrote: "During my student days in Hunan, the city was overrun by the forces of rival warlords-not once but half a dozen times"
Who is Mao Zedong?
This short term cause of the emergence of the USSR produced economic ruin and national humiliation
What is WWI?
Continuing a long line of Tsarist public surveillance this predecessor to the KGB and OGPU was formed under Lenin
What is the Cheka?
Explaining how significant events and people have had both short-term and long-lasting effects
What is consequence?
In spite of China being called a 'Republic' the years of 1916-1927 were referred to as what?
What is the Warlord Period?
This remote central eastern province of China was perfectly suited for the guerilla force of the Red Army to resist the extermination campaigns of the KMT
What is Jiangxi?
"Peace Land and Bread" is one of the first uses of this in the authoritarian 20th century
What is propaganda?
This Australian revisionist Soviet historian holds Stalin's rise to power as a socio-cultural phenomenon, meaning he manipulated new party members to follow him
Who is Sheila Fitzpatrick?
Making evidence-based judgments about which events/actions were more important or significant to an outcome
What is Causation?
An uneasy truce between the CCP and KMT in 1924, it gave legitimacy to the CCP with their membership increasing from 51-58,000 in just 6 years.
What is the First United Front?
After having encircled the Jiangsi Soviet in 1935 the Red army made this voyage to Yanan
What is the long march?
This international body founded in 1919 felt that it could impose itself on the Fledgling CCP
What is the Comintern?
A name for the systematic terror tactics employed by Lenin, Stalin, Chiang and Mao to remove threats to their authority
What are purges?
Students should be encouraged to ask questions about why something may have been recorded or included in a historical narrative
What is significance?
Leader of the Whampoa Military Academy and the Northern Expedition of 1926-28
Who is Chiang Kaishek?
One of the many opponents whose influence Mao had to outmaneuver in order to take charge of the CCP, this one Comintern code name "Li De" was a German national
Who is Otto Braun?
Replacing 'War Communism' this measure allowed peasants to keep their food surpluses
What is the NEP?
This Australian revisionist Soviet historian holds Stalin's rise to power as a socio-cultural phenomenon, meaning he manipulated new party members to follow him
Who is Sheila Fitzpatrick?
An awareness that historical change can be slow or even in moments of great change that many primary themes stay the same after all
What is continuity?
This KMT purge in 1927 Shanghai led to the death of the First United Front, what is the incident also known as?
What is the White Terror?
In a glimpse of future brutality, Mao tortured and executed 4,000 red army troops he suspected of traitorous disloyalty
What is the Futian Incident?