Individuals
The last Emperor of Russia
Who was Nicholas II?
The first of two revolutions that took place in Russia in 1917
What was the February Revolution?
Mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Who are the "Red Guards?"
What is 1918?
Political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society
What is Communism?
Served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
Ended China's last imperial dynasty, the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, and resulted in the establishment of the Republic of China
What was the 1911 Revolution?
The founding and sole governing political party of the People's Republic of China
What is the Chinese Communist Party?
February Revolution
What is 1917?
Conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir I. Lenin against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies
What is the Russian Civil War?
The ruler of the Soviet Union from 1927 until 1953.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
The campaign to reconstruct China from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes.
What was the Great Leap Forward?
A radical, far-left, and revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin.
Who were the Bolsheviks?
October Revolution
What is 1917?
Campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union that occurred from 1936 to 1938
What was the Great Purge?
Served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949 and then in Taiwan.
Who was Chiang Kai-shek?
A decade-long period of political and social chaos caused by Mao Zedong’s bid to use the Chinese masses to reassert his control over the Communist party.
What was the Cultural Revolution?
The army supported by Lenin during the Russian Civil War.
What is the Red Army?
Death of Lenin
What is 1924?
A federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
What was the Soviet Union?
Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
Who was Mao Zedong?
Revolution in which the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the workers’ soviets overthrew the Russian Provisional Government.
What was the October Revolution?
A peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor.
What is a Kulak?
Founding of the Chinese Communist Party
What is 1921?
As they steadily lose ground to the communist forces of Mao Zedong, Chinese Nationalist leaders depart for this island
What is Taiwan?