Section 1 chapter 30 World History – Flashcards
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Who succeeded Alexander II
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Alexander III
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Who clung to the principles of autocracy
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Alexander III and Nicholas II
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man who imposed strict censorship codes, had secret police and sent prisoners to Siberia, and targeted Jews for persecution
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Alexander III
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who became the czar in 1894
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Nicholas II
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How did Russia finance Russian modernization
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raising taxes, finding foreign investors
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Why did workers start to organize strikes
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the government outlawed trade unions
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Proletariat
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workers
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what did the Marxist revolutionaries believe
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working class would overthrow the czar
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one group of Marxist revolutionaries that wanted a broad base of popular support for the revolution
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Mensheviks
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group of Marxist revolutionaries that were willing to sacrifice everything for change
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Bolsheviks
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man who was the major leader of the Bolsheviks, waited in Europe until he could return to Russia safely, was snuck back in to Petrograd to fuel revolution
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Lenin
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event where people protested outside Czars house and soldiers open fired and killed over 1000 people
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Bloody Sunday
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happened on January 22, 1905
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Bloody Sunday
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what was Russias Firs parliament
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the Duma
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why did Nicholas dissolve the Duma after ten weeks
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they wanted a constitutional monarchy, he was unwilling to give up power
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what happened in 1914 in Russia
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Nicholas II dragged Russia into world war I where over 4 million people died
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Who ran the government while Nicholas was away and fell under the spell of rasputin
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Czarina Alexandra
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man who was a self proclaimed holy man and was murdered by nobles in 1916
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Rasputin
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workers led a citywide strike which forced the Czar to step down and then he was executed
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March revolution (1917)
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Provisional Government
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Temporary government
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who led the provisional government in Russia and decided to continue fighting in World War I
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Alexander Kerensky
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Soviets
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local councils consisting of peasants, workers and soldiers that had more influence than the provisional government
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What was Lenins slogan
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"peace, Land, bread"
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who stormed the Winter palace in Petrograd in November 1917 and arrested the leaders of the provisional government
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the Bolshevik Red Guards
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why did many Russians object to the Bolsheviks
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the signing of the Treaty or Brest-litovsk
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what groups made up the White Army
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groups who supported the czar, or wanted democracy or socialists who opposed Lenin
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Who led the Bolshevik Red Army and crushed all opposition which showed that they could seize power and maintain it
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Leon Trotsky
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what revolution was the Russian one similar too because it attempted to destroy existing social and political structures
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French Revolution
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What did the NEP allow
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peasants to sell surplus of crops, government keep control over major businesses but some could be private, encouragement of foreign investment
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What was Russia named in 1922
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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what did the Bolsheviks rename themselves because of the writings of karl marx
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Communist party
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man who was cold, hard, and impersonal. "man of steel". was in complete control of Communist party after lenin died and banished Trotsky, held absolute power
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Joseph Stalin
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man who led the workers protests outside the Winter palace before soldiers were ordered to open fire on them in Russia
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Father Gapon
