History of Russia Questions

When did the communists win the war?

In the care of the Soviet Union, who has abundant power?

What were the two most significant forms of totalitarianisms?

When did Mussolini assent to power?

What was Mussolini's new political system called?

the Whites failed to secure the support of the different national groups, key foreign powers, and the peasantry, while Bolsheviks enjoyed much more authority within Russia and were therefore able to assert their power over the Whites.

USSR's version of communism, workers and oppressed people's unite and overthrow capitalism and materialism

Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production (workers/low class)

A campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened Stalin's power

Last Tsar of Russia and then end of the Romanov line. Was executed along with the rest of his family under the order of Lenin.

A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918.

Kulak farmers resisted collectivization and were seen as a threat to Stalin and as a result were ordered to be liquidated or murdered.The state took control of the kulak land, equipment and stores of food and grain.3 million people were shot, exiled, or imprisoned.6 million people died due to a famine that was caused by the government by destroying their crops and animals.

1905; peaceful march by russians turned deadly when Czar's guards fire on crowd, killing hundreds

(1904-1905) War between Russia and Japan over imperial possessions. Japan emerges victorious.

- political manoeuvres of the Bolshevik -defeat in WW1- deteriorating economic situation

Stalin's plan to reorganize the industry and agriculture to catch up with the industrialized west with collectivization of farms and unrealistic production quotas in factories

Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition

Russia signed a humiliating peace treaty with Germany at this site and dropped out of the war, marking Russia's exit from World War I by conceding Lithuania, Poland, and Finland. Although Lenin supported peace many other Bolsheviks were not prepared to lose one third of the population to Germany.

the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded (to achieve a classless society throughout the world)

Russian revolutionary intellectual and close adviser to Lenin. A leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), he was later expelled from the Communist Party (1927) and banished (1929) for his opposition to the authoritarianism of Stalin