History of Russia Questions

War occurred between Finland & USSR; the Finns ended up winning

Led to Stalin using politics and public opinion to gain power & rid the country of his enemies (including Trotsky)

Communism: seeks a classless society, no religion, all private ownership of property, pairs with a socialist economy, appeals to lower to middle class familiesFascism: form of government that focuses on race or religion and is ruled by a dictator and communism is a form of government that believes that everyone is equal in all aspects of life and that no one is better then anyone else even thought communists are also ruled by a dictator

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

Wanted to keep Balkans under influence & needed trade $

Division of Germany into US and Soviet Blocs, the aggressive expansion of USSR into Poland, THE COLD WAR, self-determination from former austro-hungarian nations

Brutal, excessively long, thought unecessary by most soldiers, led to heavy desertion on both sides of front

August 1939 - (same thing as Non-Aggression Pact) Russian foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop meet and agree to carve up Poland.

(1942) World War II battle between invading German forces and Soviet defenders for control of Stalingrad; each side sustained hundreds of thousands of casualties; Germany's defeat marked turning point in the war

A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917. They believed that the proletariats should overthrow the czar and the rich (bourgeoisie).

would eventually become unstable and collapse from the inside out

Bolsheviks overthrow gov't via raid on October 25, 1917 (organized by Trotsky)

seizing of private property: [supposedly] shared equally among the people

Stalin's government system that was acheived in the name of Communism but was more like totalitarianism; benefited only government and relied on terror tactics, secret police, bogus trials and assassination

Attempt within the USSR to relate formal culture to the masses in order to avoid the adoption of Western European cultural forms; begun under Joseph Stalin; fundamental method of Soviet fiction, art, and literary criticism.

A new Red secret police. It replaced the old tsarist secret police. They aimed at nothing less than destruction of all those who opposed the new regime. Bourgeoisie were singled out who consider as "class enemies".

(1941-1942) Nazi army's unsuccessful attempt to capture the city of Leningrad in the Soviet Union during World War II; as many as 1 million civilians perished during the siege

U.S. and Britain raced to Berlin against Soviets. Soviets got to Berlin first.

Wasn't really classless as he and other leaders were better off than those they led (dedicated revolutionaries)

* No Support for the Provisional government.* Fight for the Soviets to take power.* End the war.* Confiscate the big estates.* Nationalize the banks.* Establish workers' control of industry.* Replace the police and army with a workers' militia.* Replace the old state bureaucracy with workers' administration.* Proclaim a Communist Party; establish a new international