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Which slogan is associated with the Bolshevik (Russian) Revolution?

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"Peace, Land, and bread!"

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Which leader led the Russians in a second revolution (1917), Promised "peace, land, and bread.", established the New Economic Policy (NEP)

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Vladimir I. Lenin

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The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia was caused in part by

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a shortage of military supplies and food during World War I

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One reason the Bolsheviks gained peasant support during the Russian Revolution was because the Bolsheviks promised to

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redistribute land

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Which situation resulted from the Russo-Japanese War of 1905?

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Dissident groups challenged the power of the Russian czar.

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Which was a major result of the Russian Revolution of 1917 ?

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Russia became a communist nation

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One of the major causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was the

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abuse of political power by Czar Nicholas II

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Which action contributed to the success of Lenin's communist revolution in Russia?

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Peasants were promised land reform.

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A major cause of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was the

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existence of sharp economic differences between social classes.

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Lenin's promise of "Peace, Land, Bread" during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was made in an effort to

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gain popular support to overthrow the government

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In 1917, Russian leaders in Russia sought peace with Germany because the new Russian government

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wanted to retain power and avoid German occupation

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Which leader based his rule on the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles?

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Vladimir Lenin

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Under Josef Stalin, life in the Soviet Union was characterized by

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the use of censorship and the secret police

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Which characteristic was common to both Russia under the Czars and the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin?

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persecution of political dissenters

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The political reorganization of Russia after the Communist Revolution of 1917 resulted in

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a federation of socialist republics

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Russian peasants supported the Bolsheviks in 1917 primarily because the Bolsheviks pledged to

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redistribute land and make peace

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Which statement best describes a relationship between World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution?

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World War I created conditions in Russia that helped trigger a revolution.

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Under Josef Stalin, the Soviet Union emphasized centralized economic planning and Five-Year Plans primarily to

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develop heavy industry

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Josef Stalin's leadership of the Soviet Union can best be characterized as a period of

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censorship and terror

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The 1917 victory of the communists in Russia was a contradiction of Marxist theory because Russia was

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mainly an agricultural society

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"...the organizations of the revolutionaries must consist first, foremost, and mainly of people who make revolutionary activity their profession...such an organization must of necessity be not too extensive and as secret as possible..." -V.I. Lenin, 1917 This quotation refers to Lenin's plan to

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overthrow the Russian government

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The term that best describes the position of Jews in Czarist Russia is

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persecuted minority

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Which statement best describes the political situation in the Soviet Union immediately after Lenin's death in 1924?

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a power struggle developed among Communist Party leaders

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One action taken by both V.I. Lenin and Joseph Stalin was

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jailing or murdering potential opponents

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A major effect of Josef Stalin's policy of Collectivization on Soviet agriculture was

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a widespread food shortage throughout the nation

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Which is an accurate statement about the Soviet economy under the leadership of Joseph Stalin?

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the Soviet Union increased its industrial output by developing heavy industry

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Stalin's Five-Year Plans and his decision to form collectives are examples of

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strategies to modernize the economy of the Soviet Union through forced communism

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"A group of planners makes all economic decisions. The group assigns natural, human, and capital resources to the production of those goods and services it wants. The group decides how to produce them and to whom to distribute them" This description best applies to the

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command economy of the Soviet Union

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Which is generally a characteristic of a communist economy?

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government agencies are involved in production planning

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Which statement about both the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy is accurate?

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Economic conditions led to political change.

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Under communism in the former Soviet Union, people were required to

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put the interests of the state before individual gain

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A comparison of the actions of the Jacobins during the French Revolution and the actions of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution indicates that revolutions sometimes

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bring radicals to power

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". . . The replacement of the bourgeois by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution. The abolition of the proletarian state, i.e., of all states, is only possible through 'withering away.' . . ." — V.I.Lenin, State and Revolution, 1917 This quotation is associated with the principles of

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communism

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Which statement describes a similarity between the French Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia?

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Both revolutions were the result of government denial of basic human rights and stressful economic conditions.

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The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was a major turning point in history because

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Russia became the first nation with a communist economic system

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Which type of political system did V. I. Lenin, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini establish in their countries?

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totalitarianism

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Which aspect of the economy was emphasized in Joseph Stalin's five-year plans

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heavy industry

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A major goal of Joseph Stalin' s five-year plans was to

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transform the Soviet Union into an industrial power

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Under Joseph Stalin, peasants in the Soviet Union were forced to

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join collective farms

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Joseph Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union was characterized by the

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establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship

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What was the major goal of Joseph Stalin's five-year plans in the Soviet Union

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encouraging rapid industrialization

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An economic accomplishment of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin was

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increasing production of heavy industrial machinery

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In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin governed by means of secret police, censorship, and purges

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totalitarian

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Checka

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secret police who executed ordinary citizens.

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proletariat

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the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners.

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Raspustin

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illiterate peasant/monk and self-proclaimed "holy man." Czar Nicholas II'S wife allowed to control gov't whiles Nicholas II was in war.

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Nicholas II

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Czar/King of Russia during World War I and the Russian Revolution. (murdered by communists/Bolsheviks)

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Bolshevik

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communist political party that was led by Vladimir Lenin in 1917 (Russia)

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Lenin's N.E.P. (New economic policy)

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It allowed some capitalist ventures. Although the state kept control of banks, foreign trade, and large industries, small businesses were allowed to reopen for private profit. Under the N.E.P- peasants held on to small plots of land and freely sold their surplus crops. Lenin's compromise with capitalism helped the Soviet economy recover and ended armed resistance to the new government. By 1928, food and industrial production climbed back to prewar levels. The standard of living improved too. But lenin always saw the NEP as just a temporary retreat from communism.

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War with Communism

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The communists used terror not only against the Whites, but also to control their own people. The communists also set up a network of forced labor camps in 1919- which grew under Stalin into the dreaded Gulag.

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WAR COMMUNISM

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took over banks, mines, factories, and railroads. Peasants in the countryside were forced to deliver almost all of their crops to feed the army and hungry people in the cities. Peasant labors were drafted into the military or forced to work in factories.

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Trotsky

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A brilliant Marxist thinker, a skillful speaker, and an architect of the Bolshevik Revolution. Turned the Red Army into an effective fighting force. He used former tsarist officers under the close watch of commissars, communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty. Trotsky's passionate speeches roused soldiers to fight. He urged support for a world-wide revolution against capitalism. Trotsky fled the country 1929 but continued on building socialism at home first. Stalin isolated Trotsky within the party and stripped him of party membership. Trotsky fled the country in 1929, but continued to criticize Stalin. In 1940, a Stalinist agent murdered Trotsky in Mexico.

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New Gov't, same problems

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In 1922, Lenin's communist government united much of the old Russian empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) or Soviet Union. The communists produced a constitution that seemed both democratic and socialist. It set up an elected legislature, later called the Supreme Soviet, and gave all the citizen over 18 the right to vote. All political power, resources, and ,means of production would belong to workers and peasants. The Soviet Union was a multinational state made up of European and Asian peoples. All member republics shared certain equal rights.

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STALIN

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Lenin died in 1924 at the age of 54. He was involved in World War I, Cold War, and Korean War. He turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state controlled by a powerful and complex bureaucracy

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Great Purge

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killed four million people in the soviet union.

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totalitarian state

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type of government in which a one-party dictatorship attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of the citizens.

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Stalin's Five Year Plans

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Stalin imposed government control over the Soviet Union's economy. In the past, Russia had suffered because of its economic backwardness. In 1928, he proposed the first of several "five-year plans" aimed at building heavy industry, improving transportation, and increasing farm output. He brought all economic activity under government control The government owned all businesses and distributed resources.

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Command economy

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government officials made all basic economic decisions.

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capitalist system

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the free market determine most economic designs. Privately owned businesses compete to win the consumer's choice. This competition regulates the price and quality of goods.

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Stalins five year plan..

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set high production goals, especially for heavy industry and transportation. The government pushed workers and managers to meet these goals by giving bonuses to those who succeeded and by punishing those who did not. Between 1928 and 1939, large factories, hydroelectric power stations, and huge industrial complexes rose across the Soviet Union. Oil, coal, and steel production grew and mining expanded, and new railroads were built.

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collectives

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large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group. on collectives, the gov't would provide tractors, fertilizers, and better seed, and peasants would learn modern farm methods.

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Kulaks

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wealthy farmers- some peasants did not want to give up their land and sell their crops at the states' low prices. they resisted collectivization by killing farm animals, destroying tools, and burning crops. Stalin was furious. He believed the kulaks were behind this and he responded with brutal force. In 1929, Stalin sent them to labor camps. They were killed instantly.

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Terror

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Stalin used terror as a weapon. He perpetrated crimes against humanity and systemically violated his people's individual rights. Police spies did not hesitate to open private letters or plant listening devices.

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Gulag

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a system of brutal labor camps, where many died.

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The Great Purge

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Stalin feared tha rival party leaders were plotting against him. In 1934, he launched the Great Purge. Stalin and his secret police cracked down especially on Old Bolsheviks, or party activists from the early days of the revolution. Between 1936-1938, Stalin staged a series of spectacular public "show trials" in Moscow. Four million people were purged during the Stalin years.

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What happened in 1941?

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Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

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Propaganda

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Stalin tried to boost morale and faith in the communist system by making himself a godlike figure. He used propaganda as a tool to build up a "cult of personality" around himself. Using modern technology, the party bombarded the public with relentless propaganda. Radios and loudspeakers blared into factories and villages. In movies, theaters, and schools citizens heard about communist successes and the evils of capitalism. Billboards and posters urged workers to meet or exceed production quotas. Headlines in the Communist party newspaper Pravada, or "Truth" linked enemies at home to foreign agents seeking to overthrow the Communist regime.

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socialist realism

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Stalin required artists and writers to create their works in a style called socialist realism. Its goal was to show Soviet life in a positive light and promote hope in the communist future. Allowed to be realistic.

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Soviet union under Stalin

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COMMUNISM. They were often outweighed by continuous shortages and restricted freedoms. The communists destroyed the old social order of landowning nobles at the top and peasants at the bottom. But instead of creating equals as they promised, they created a society where a few elite groups emerged as a new ruling class.

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Women in the soviet union

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they worked for the revolution, spreading radical ideas among peasants and workers. Under the communists, women won equality under the law. They gained access to education and a wide range of jobs. By the 1930's, many Soviet women were working in medicine, engineering, or the sciences. By their labor, women contributed to Soviet economic growth. They worked in factories, in construction, and on collectives Within the family, their wages were needed because men and women earned the same low salaries.

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The Mensheviks

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"Whites-- support czar Nicholas II (nobles and rich) -February Revolution- 1917- bread shortage. no work, russians loosing WWI, and people protested, Russian military, Lenin comes back to Russia to control

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March 1917

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Czar Nicholas II abdicated (to give up) because people want him out. A provisional gov't was set. October 1917, takes over government and Russia is communist.

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The Bolsheviks

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Russian revolution (reds), communist (Karl Marx), end monarchy, Czar Nicholas II, Leader Lenin

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Czar Nicholas II

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decides to go to Eastern Front with his groups to support them. Nicholas II leaves his wife Alexandra is charge of government at home. She highly trusts Raspustin and he gets killed in 1916

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Factors that led to the Communist Revolution in 1917

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The discontent of the peasants (bound to the land) The discontent of the workers (no jobs) The weakness of Tsar Nicholas II Raspustin and Scandal February Revolution 1917 (start of Russian revolution) The failure of the Duma (Russian parliament) Opposition of the communists Russian failures in the first world war

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Russo Japanese War (1904)

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defeat let to political instability. He believed he was absolute ruler anointed to god. Lost to Japan in 1804 and shows that lack of technology.

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Revolution of 1905

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REALLY BAD. working class extremely angry. famine in russia was widespread that spread throughout Russia. Starvation and death are results of famine

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Duma

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elected national legislature

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Tsars

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Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II

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Opposing the tsars

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liberals, socialists, nationalists, army officers, workers

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