History of Russia Questions

The slogan used by Lenin to win the support of the people; Peace appealed to the soldiers and WWI; Land appealed to the peasants; and Bread appealed to the workers and anyone who needed food.

Workers and soldiers forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate and set up the provisional government (Duma)

An economic system in which the government controls a country's economy.

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

The overthrow of Russia's Provisional Government in the fall of 1917 by Lenin and the Bolshevik forces, made possible by the government's continuing defeat in WWI, its failure to bring political reform, and a further decline in the conditions of everyday life under the Czar

a man-made famine/genocide in which the USSR starved the people of Ukraine resulting in the death of between 3-7 million

Lenin's 1921 policy to re-establish limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of the economic failures of his war communism policy

a railroad that would eventually link Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok; built between 1891 and 1903. Spending on this venture was a contributing factor to the Russian Rev in 1917

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

people who worked the land or served the nobles

a system in which private farms were eliminated. Instead, the government owned all of the land while the peasants worked it, turning over their crop yields to the government to be redistributed among everyone.

A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917.

- Agreement that Ended Bolshevik Russia's participation in World War I - Negotiated by Vladimir Lenin because he was unwilling to risk Bolshevik gains by continuing a war

War between Japan and Russia over Manchurian territory; resulted in the defeat of Russia by the Japanese navy.

The elected Russian parliament created in 1905. Establishing this made it seem 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.

How are Stalin and Mao Zedong similar in their type of rule?

the process of forcing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the Russian empire

A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

Self-proclaimed holy man who claimed to heal the sick and have prophecy. He had much influence over Tsarina Alexandra and she often went to him for advise on political issues.

Workers asking for better working conditions; The czar's general opens fire killing 500+; People lose trust in Nicholas; Outcome: Nicholas II forced to establish the Duma: Russian form of parliament; Nicholas doesn't want to share his power, so it is kind of pointless and does not work