These people were at the bottom of Russia's social pyramid, they were a form of labor, and were bound to the land they worked on.
Who are serfs?
100
The Russian economy was mostly based on _____________.
Agriculture/Farming
100
To motivate his soldiers during WWI, Nicholas did what?
He left the capital and went to the battlefront to motivate the soldiers (this was disastrous)
100
This man was assassinated in the streets of Sarajevo.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
This guy's name means, "man of steel, though he was actually from the country of Georgia, he would succeed Lenin
Joseph Stalin
200
These people were at the top of Russian society, and had been for centuries.
The Czar and Czarina (Tsar and Tsarina)
200
Russia was the largest country in the world at this point in history, being located in both Europe and Asia, as a result Russia had many different......
nationalities/ ethnic groups
200
This political party gained control of Russia after overthrowing the Provisional Government.
What is the Bolshevik (Communist)party?
200
Lenin's beliefs/ideas for Russia included.....
Redistributing Land to the Peasants (Sharing Land)
Redistributing Wages to Workers (Sharing Money)
Communism
Getting Rid of the Czar
Helping the Working Class (Proletariat)
200
Stalin tried to get peasants to farm more productively, so he took away their farms, put them under the control of the government, and forced them to work together on these shared group farms called .....
collectives
300
One thing that separated pre-Revolution Russia from pre-Revolution France was that Russia had a very small group of these people in it's society compared to other European countries
Who are the middle class (or Bourgeoisie)?
300
Russia got into a war with this country, they were supposed to win, but got upset. The war cost a lot of money, and was unpopular with the Russian people who were frustrated with the czar's leadership
Japan
300
Vladimir Lenin got peasants and working class people to support him because he promised Russians......
Peace, Land, and Bread
300
This group of people many supported the Bolsheviks
Proletariat (Working Class )
300
People who protest this forced Collectivization or who criticized Stalin's policies, might find themselves arrested and sent to this labor camps called.......
Gulags
400
Historians have often said that Russia was a "backwards" country, mostly because.....
The ideas of the Enlightenment and French Revolution really did not make it to Russia, also the Industrial Revolution really did not come to Russia either.
400
As a result of losing that war against in 1905 (against the country from the last question), a bunch of peasants led a peaceful protest to the Czar's winter palace in St. Petersburg. He wasn't home but his bodyguards shot into the crowd. This massacre was known as......
Bloody Sunday 1905
400
After Nicholas II abdicated (stepped down), the Revolution turned into a Civil War between the
Reds and Whites
400
In October of 1917 what did the Bolsheviks decide to do?
Overthrow the provisional (temporary) government led by Alexander Kerenksy.
400
Stalin realized that Russia (USSR) was far behind the rest of Europe in technology. In order to boost the Soviet Union's technology, factories, RR's, industry, he created the _______ plans to quickly modernize.
5 Year Plans
500
Like the French and Austria kings, the Russian emperors were all from a family dynasty. This was the name for the Russian family dynasty.
Who were the Romanov's?
500
Russia exited World War I because this was happening back home.
What is the Russian Revolution?
500
Give 3 reasons for the overthrow of the Russian monarchy.
3 of the following: tsar's incompetence, high casualties in World War I, loss of Russo-Japanese war, landless peasants, Rasputin's influence.
500
Lenin changed the name of Russia to the USSR which stood for .....
Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
500
A great example of Stalin's paranoia and insecurity, would be when he eliminated all the old Bolsheviks left over from Lenin, especially killing the popular Bolshevik and his friend.....