History of Russia Questions

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

Censorship in the Soviet Union was pervasive and strictly enforced. Censorship, in accordance with the official ideology and politics of the Communist Party was performed by several organizations: Goskomizdat censored all printed matter: fiction, poetry, etc. Goskino, in charge of cinema.

Tsar of Russia from 1881 1894 who strongly resisted the liberal movement emerging in Russia at the time. Undid many of his father's liberal reforms, but allowed institutions like zemstvos to continue. Extremely reactionary.

Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).

The widespread arrests and executions of over a million people by Josef Stalin between 1936 and 1938. Stalin was attempting to eliminate all opposition to his rule of the Soviet Union.

Stalin's secret police who were authorized to arrest, execute, or relegate political opponents to gulag camps

this was under stalins communism when he would collect the land and the government would redistribute it out to the people, it was not so successful, the people didn't like it. (the peasantry were forced to give up their individual farms and join large collective farms)

Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI

one of the local representative democrat councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas II

counterrevolutionaries who were loyal to the czar. (anti-communists)

In the Soviet Union, a system of forced labor camps in which millions of criminals and political prisoners were held under Stalin.

a political party that believes the government should control all production and distribution of goods and working people should control their own lives and destinies (Follow the Marxism and Leninism)

Constructed in 1870s to connect European Russia with the Pacific; completed by the end of the 1880s; brought Russia into a more active Asian role.

failed, and led to widespread rebellion in the Russian army. Made it able for Lenin to lead a Bolshevik takeover.

Russian federal system controlled by the Communist Party established in 1923.

The elected parliament. Though through establishing this is seemed like the Czar was giving his people power, in reality he could easily get rid of this if they made any laws or such that he didn't like. Ended in 1906

Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control "the commanding heights" of the economy like major industry, while allowing ordinary citizens to operate business and property ownership as normal. Joseph Stalin ended this in 1928 and replaced it with greater state ownership, collectivization, and a series of Five-Year Plans.

the minority party that opposed the Bolsheviks; wanted peaceful socialism; were disorganized

someone who supports a political or economic philosophy that says society as a whole, rather than private companies, should own or control various goods and services (government in charge)

a person who has capital especially invested in business