History of Russia Questions
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Who took charge of Russia's forces, even though he had no ability or training?
What palace did the Bolshevik forces seiz of Nov. 6?
Moses the raven(tells animals about sugar candy mountain, animals go there if work hard, snowball and major were against him, thought heaven was a lie, napoleon let him stay cuz it got animals to work)
what 3 countries were most upset at the end of WW1? (extra)
*responsible for creating the Russian army*when Lenin passed the power could have been passed to him OR Stalin *he was a brilliant Marxist thinker and engineer of the revolution *him and Stalin fought over power after Lenin's death*he was for worldwide socialism movement *he was isolated by Stalin and eventually was killed by a Russian secret agent
*created a "cult of personality" to help him control Russia, giving him a god like persona*marx predicted that the government would disappear under him, the opposite was true*he bombarded the people with constant communist propaganda glorifying themselves while demonizing the west*his supporters were glorified as hero's *he forced artist to conform to social realism*they could criticize the czars, but had to show Stalin as a hero as well as the working class
*when Nicholas II went to control the war, he left his wife Czarina Alexandra in charge.*since she was unfit to rule, she was under control of ________*he was not an actual priest, but he gained a reputation as a healer*the Czarina believed in his power because he had apparently healed her son through hypnosis*the Czarina did whatever he said*he was invited to a party by Prince Felix Yussoupou and he was poisoned, which had no effect*the conspirators then lured him into a basement, where he was shot. he then hot up and attacked the Prince and escaped the palace*the assassins found him and shot him a second one time, when he got up again...they beat him until he could not move. they then dumped his body into a river and later it was concluded his cause of death was drowning
*stalin initiated*old Party leaders, army heroes, writers, peasants, & industrial managers were arrested by secret police under charges ranging from counter-revolution to not meeting production quotes*victims were often tourchee and forced to confess to crime they may not have committed. Once confessed they were sentenced to death or hard labor
*soviets fell under him*born in 1870 to a middle class family*hated the czar since his brother was executed for attempting to assassinate the czar*he began to read Marx & spread socialist propaganda *he remade Marx philosophy to fit Russia *he set up a "Dictatorship for the proletariat" called the Bolsheviks (majority)*the German government helped Lennon get back to Russia *he organized a secret police (Cheka)*they were responsflr the assasination of the czar and his family
When Russia left WW1, they started their own revolution called..
*majority*dictatorship set up by Lenin *redistributed the land & put the factories under the control of the workers*joseph Stalin also joined this party
*communism, political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society
*created this to industrialize Russia*he created a plan*in order to do this, he placed all economic activities under government control
*Stalin forced all peasants to give up their private slots of land and live on either state controlled farms, large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group. All farm animals and tools became property of the collective. People responded by killing their livestock
*introduced by Lenin*it allowed for capitalist ventures*banks,foreign trade & large industries were now put under government control but small shops could be privately owned. This resulted in a stabilization of the economy
The Marxist Social Democratic Party was divided into what two groups in 1903?
When did Tsar Nicholas II abdicate (leave the throne)?
What did the middle classes and liberal aristocrats advocate (support) or want?
Pearl Harbor, entry of U.S. into WWII
communists gained power, government was overthrown