Russian Revolution
When did the Russian Revolution start?
1917
When Russian Marxists split into two factions, the Bolsheviks represented the majority and the ______ represented the minority.
Mensheviks
______ rolled back many of the reforms aimed at improving the life of women in the early Soviet Union, like legalized abortion, and championed more traditional gender roles
Stalin
Author of War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
the other superpower after World War II
the United States
______ proved to be the catalyst that weakened the Russian state, increased the suffering of the Russian people, and made revolution possible in Russia
World War I
Event that sparked the Revolution of 1905
What did the loss to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War cause?
Name of the Soviet Security Police
NKVD
"What Is to Be Done?"
Other name for the Communist International?
What is the Comintern?
Leader of Russia after the Russian Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
______ was assassinated by radicals after he abolished serfdom and reformed Russia.
Tsar Alexander II
What were the results of the First Five Year Plan?
an increase in industrial output but only after the death of millions
What's the name of the movie depicting the Bolsheviks' rise to power in 1917?
October
major country that turned communist in 1949
China
What fatal mistake did the Provisional Government make that made the rise of the Bolsheviks possible?
They chose to remain in the war because they saw themselves as a temporary government not empowered to make those decisions.
the most high profile victims of the Great Purge.
Who were the Old Bolsheviks?
What were the twin goals of Stalin's First Five Year Plan?
Rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture.
Ivan Turgenev
________ was the region most severely impacted by Stalin’s policies resulting in the famine deaths of millions.
Ukraine
What were the three causes of the Russian Revolution?
collapse of the Russian state and the military during WWI, and food shortage
The organization in which the Bolsheviks gained a majority, which allowed them to influence the masses and seize control
What is the Petrograd Soviet?
Name given to the Famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-33
Holodomor
Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
Lenin believed that a Russian revolution would succeed despite their undeveloped state because...
Other nations would rise up too and assist Russia in completing the transition to Communism.