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| Impact of the Communist Revolution on religion in Russia | religious worship was banned, so that it did not compete with Communist for people's loyalty. Priests were killed or exiled. Churches turned into offices or museums. Tried to replace it with communist ideology. |
| Impact of communism on education and literacy | education was available to everyone, literacy increased to nearly 100%, but the goal was to help spread communism (&get better workers for industry) |
| Availability of consumer goods | shortages, especially of fresh fruits, meats and veggies. Refrigerators, cars and even jeans were difficult to get (unles you were a member of the communist party) |
| Explain how the communist party used censorship and propaganda | to control what people hear and see... and therefore what they think. Such as ...posters on the Great Collective farms |
| Explain why even though the USSRsaid they were a republic/democracy they weren't really | It was a dictatorship of the communist party, no other political parties were allowed. There was no freedom of speech to have a political debate. |
| How was the Forced Famine in the Ukraine carried out? | Stalin took food away from peasants (kulaks especially) if they refused to join a collective. They were starved into submitting to collectivization. Then when collectives failed to meet their quotas more food was taken and 5 to 8 million starved. ex. Children so hungry that they ate other children |
| Were people in the USSR equal? | They did get rid of the rigid social classes, but the new privileged group was the Communist Party |
| Identify one human right that was violated by Stalin or the Soviet Union and explain. | Property ... peasants were forced to give up their land and join collectives. Life... leaders and other were killed in the Great Purge and Show Trials, also in the Forced Famine. Right to Participate in you own gov't..., Right to Security and Safety...., Liberty... Pick one and explain |
| Social, political and economic dissatisfaction can lead to | revolution |
| Czar Nicholas II's execution of peaceful petitioners | Bloody Sunday |
| The Revolution of 1905 lead to a promise by the czar to | allow a constitutional monarchy, but he NEVER allowed any limits to his power. |
| Most immediat cause of the Russian Revolution was | food shortages/ bread |
| They spontaneously overthrew the czar... they didn't plan it at all | the Russian people (sort of like the animals when they weren't feed once) |
| The "Mad Monk" that the czarina depended on for advice | Gregory Rasputin |
| Provisional (Kerensky's) Government | 1. kept Russia in WWI 2. wrote a Constitution so that Russia could hold elections 3.was overthrow by the Bolsheviks |
| How did Lenin change Marx's theory so that Communism could work in Russia | State that if they had professional, educated leaders then the revolution would work even thought the nation was still agricultural. |
| "Peace, Land and Bread" | Slogan of the Bolsheviks in the November Revolution |
| French Revolution, Russian Revolution and China's Communist Revolution...all were | partially motivated by the peasants desire for LAND! |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | withdrew Russia from WWI, giving up a large amount of profitable land. |
| The October/November (Bolshevik) Revolution was a turning point in world history b/c | Russia became the FIRST nation with a "communist" economic system. |
| Soviet Union's government | was totalitarian (Communist Party controlled every aspect of people's live's... political, economic and social) |
| Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) in the 1920s and Gorbachev's perestroika policy in the 1980s | allowed elements of capitalism (individual ownership) with communism (gov't) ownership |
| Leader of the Red Army and reader of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars... | Trotsky |
| Stalin's agricultural policy's (collectivization) most immediate effect was | Forced famine in the Ukraine |
| Stalin's Great Purge and Show Trials | tried to eliminate opposition to Stalin and the communist government |
| Stalin's Five Year Plans | focused on capital goods (industrial) to increase future production and led to collectivization of the farms |
| Peasant reaction to collectivization | 1. burned crops 2. killed animals 3. destroyed tools |
| Marx would have been surprised the first Communist Revolution was in Russia... | b/c Russia was an agricultural coountry |
| Command (or planned) Economy | when the government controls the economy (ex. what will be produced) |
| Censorship in totalitarian states | prevents artist and writers from criticizing the government |
| Both the Jacobins (under Robespierre) and the Bolsheviks in their revolutions | brought radicals to power... which meant that the new governments abused human rights worse that the previous monarchs |
