Two problems that existed under Czar Nicholas II's reign
What are Russia's not being industrialized, and Nicholas ruling with strict force (secret police, censorship)
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Was exiled and living in this country before Germans brought him back to Russia
What is Switzerland
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Stalin's name means this
What is "man of steel"
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The Communist secret police
What is the Cheka?
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This is how Rasputin died
What is he was poisoned, shot, clubbed then thrown in a river and drowned
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Two more problems that existed under Nich's reign
What are lack of a Constitution, dismissing the Duma, peasants lacking land and workers lacking rights
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Was a Marxist but believed Russia's revolution had to be a little different. How?
What is it needed to be led by a small group of professional revolutionaries like himself (he will call this group the Bolsheviks)
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Stalin creates this type of economy, one where the government makes ALL economic decisions
What is a command economy?
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Assigned to ensure loyalty to the Communist party, these people made sure Red Army units fought fiercely (or they risked being executed)
Who are commissars?
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Karl Marx's beliefs
What is that workers worldwide will revolt, overthrow the rich, and create a classless society where society as a whole owns and operates the means of production
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Faced with heavy losses from Russia's army and growing problems at home, Nicholas did this during WWI
What is he went to the front lines to command Russia's armies
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How the Bolshevik Revolution happened
What is on November 6, 1917, Bolsheviks seized army headquarters, banks, and Provisional Gov't headquarters and overthrew the PG
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This had two goals: to increase heavy industry and to improve food production
What is the five-year plans?
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Two of the "Whites" that opposed Lenin and the "Reds"
What are ethnic groups demanding autonomy, royalists who wanted the czar back
Also -- Allied forces (US, British troops), socialists who wanted Lenin out (Mensheviks)
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The Great Purge was this
What is when Stalin feared he would be overthrown, so he targeted Old Bolsheviks, army officers, etc. and had them confess to crimes and sent to labor camps or killed
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Rasputin supposedly could do this
What is heal the Czar's son Alexei
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Lenin's NEP was this
What is 1/2 capitalism (small businesses can stay private, peasants can sell extra grain for profit)
and 1/2 communism (the Communists control the large industries, banks, etc.)
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The results of the heavy industry part of the five-year plans
What is mixed results: the Soviet Union became a world leader in steel, iron, oil, etc. but workers suffered long hours, high quotas, lack of quality consumer goods, etc.
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This was called "war communism" and helped Lenin win the Civil War
What is the policy of seizing banks, factories, etc. and forcing peasants into the Red Army or into factories to work (and taking grain from them, too)
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Wealthy peasants who opposed Stalin (and died)
Who were kulaks
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Nicholas steps down in March of 1917. Who replaces him and what do they do?
What is the Provisional Government, who makes the mistake of keeping Russia in the world
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The treaty of Brest-Listovsk did this in early 1918
What is withdraws Russia from WWI (it was signed with Germany)
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The results of the food production part of the five-year plans
What is they failed; peasants opposed collectivization so Stalin killed many, took grain from millions, bet. 5-8 million starve to death
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The other name for the Soviet Union
What is the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
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This is known as collectivization
What is the policy of forcing farmers to work the land together and use government-supplied tools to meet high quotas of grain and other products