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| What were the economic causes of the Russian Revolution? | there was a peasant majority, food and fuel shortage, striking workers, and inefficient transportation system |
| What were the political causes of the Russian Revolution? | Enormous losses in WWI, autocracy, weak and ineffectual rulers, spread of Marxist ideas, charismatic leaders like Lenin and Trotsky |
| What were the social causes of the Russian Revolution? | extremes in classes, deprivation resulting from WWI, peasants desire for land |
| What was the March Revolution? | started as a protest led by women, gained momentum and soldiers began to join |
| What was the result of the March Revolution? | the czar abdicated his throne, Parliament was set up (Duma),communist claimed power in cities |
| What was the November Revolution? | lead by Lenin, peace land and bread, recruited soldiers, sailors and workers, overthrew the provisional government, allies tried to stop revolution |
| What happened in Russia when the Bolsheviks took charge? | peace with Germany, communist took over banks, mines, factories, and railroads, built up the Red army (Trotsky) |
| Who fought for control of the Soviet Union after Lenin's death? | Trotsky and Stalin |
| Trotsky had... | helped lead the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin wanted him to succeed him, fled the USSR and was found murdered in Mexico |
| Stalin was.... | power hungry and unstable and used bold political moves to take power |
| What was the Five Year Plan? | Stalin's economic plan designed to build heavy industry, improve transportation, and increasing farm output |
| The Five Year Plan developed... | a command economy where government officials made all basic economic decisions, government owned all businesses, government set high production goals and rewarded those who met them and punished those who did not |
| Result of the Five year plan... | heavy industry did improve, standard of living did not, did not produce consumer goods |
| The Five Year Plan had what agricultural changes? | Forced peasants to give up private plots and live on state owned farms , peasants resisted, lead to famines and deaths in the millions |
| What is a collective? | a large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group |
| The Great Purge targeted.... | old Bolsheviks, army officiers, writers and even ordinary citizens |
| The results of the Great Purge... | many were sent to labor camps in Siberia, others were executed, 90% of nations military officers were purged, increased Stalin's power |
| What was Stalin's foreign policy? | sought to encourage a world wide communist revolutiona and at the same time establish relations with Western countries, mistrusted by most western countries |
| What is a totalitarian state? | A one party dictatorship taht dictates every aspect of the lives of its citizens |
| Komsomol... | provided sprots programs, cultural activities and political classes to train teenages for party membership |
| Alexandra Kollontai... | the only high ranking woman to serve in Lenin's government |
| What is socialist realism? | A method used by artists and writers to boost socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive life. |
