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Flashcards by Serena Blanco Garcia, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Serena Blanco Garcia
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Kulak |
Wealthy peasants that owned lands and that were considered capitalists.
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| Bolshevicks | Members of the Social Workers' Party. Their leader was Lenin. |
| Gulag |
Prison camps where people who were against Stalin and the Party were sent.
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| Soviet |
Socialist council or assembly formed mainly by workers.
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| Duma |
It was an elective legislative assembly with limited power.
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| NEP |
New economic policy introduced by Lenin in order to recover the economy after the war.
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| Stalin | He was the totalitarian leader who ruled after Lenin. People feared him as much as they loved him. |
| Cheka |
Secret police that tortured and killed anyone who was against Stalin.
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| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
It was signed the 3rd of March of 1918 by Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, Austria and the Ottoman Empire to end the war.
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| "PEACE, BREAD AND LAND" |
It was Lenins slogan that promised peasants lands and factories to the industrial workers.
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| Red Guard | It was a military force formed by soldiers and industrial workers that was led by Trotsky. They fought for Lenin. |
| White Army | It was an army formed by Russians who were against Lenin, like the bourgeoise, in order to fight the Red Guard. |
| Soviet Propaganda | It showed Stalin as the loving and strong father of the Nation and thanked him for everything, from good harvests to victories in wars. |
| Totalitarian leaders | Lenin (1917-1924) Stalin (1924-1953) Nikita Kruschev |
| Grigori Rasputin | He was a very important friend of the Royal family. He was known for his healing and prophetic abilities. |
| April theses | When Lenin came back from his exile he made ten theses in order to change peoples ideas and to give the power to the proletariat. |
| Dimitri Pavlovich and Prince Felix Yusupov | They were the ones who murdered Grigori Rasputin, first by trying to poison him with cyanide and then, by shooting him and throwing him into the river. |
| Food shortages | During the wars Russia was in, the country didn't have enough food since most peasants had to go fight in the war. |
| Tzar Nicolas II | He was the Tzar during the first Russian revolution and he abdicated during the second Russian revolution when the soldiers would't obey him anymore. |
| Stalins 5 year plan | In 1928 Stalin introduced a 5 year plan to increase the industrial production. Even though the production of coal, iron, oil and electricity increased there were famines and millions of people died. |
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