Russian Revolution
What are 3 facts about Ivan IV?
Ivan the Terrible.
Grand Prince of Moscow and all of russia.
First Russian Monarch to be crowed as tsar.
Who was Romanov Dynasty?
The reigning imperial house of Rusia from 1613-1917
List 3 facts about Peter the Great
1. Tsar of all Russia from 1682?
2. First Emporaor of all Russia from 1721-1725
3. Was an absolute monarch who remained the ultimate authority through harsh treatment (AUTOCRACTIC).
What was the Russian Revolution of 1905
The First Russian Revolution, began in January 1905.
A wave of mass political and social unrest then began to spread across the vast areas of the Russian Empire.
The unrest was directed primarily against the Tsar, the nobility, and the ruling class.
What was "Bloody Sunday"? What day and where did it happen?
The series of events on Sunday, January 22, 1905
St Petersburg, Russia,
Unarmed demonstrators were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
Who was Tsar Nicholas II
the last reigning Emperor of Russia from November 1, 1894 until his abdication on March 15, 1917
What does "Conscription" mean?
The state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.
What was the February Revolution?
The first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.
What are 3 facts about Vladimir Lenin?
1. He was a Russian revolutionary politician and political theorist
2. He served the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917-2924
3. Headed up the government of the Soviet Union from 1922-1924
What was the Bolshevik Revolution?
A period of political and social change in the Russian Empire, starting in 1917.
This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a bloody civil war.
Name 2 importnant Facts about Leon Trotsky:
1. Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, journalist and political theorist.
2. He was a central figure in the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution, Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union
What is Communisim?
A political theory first proposed by Karl Marx that promotes class warfare that leads to a society where all property is publicly owned by the state.
What political theory did Karl Marx propose?
Communism
List 3 facts about the Russian Civil War
1. A period of political and social change in the Russian Empire, starting in 1917.
2. Russia ABOLISHED ITS MONARCHY
3. Russia ADOPTED A SOCIALIST FORM OF GOVERNMENT
This was following two successive revolutions and a bloody civil war.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R)?
A transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
A one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, it was a flagship communist state.
Who was Joseph stalin?
A Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
List 2 Facts about Totalitarianism
1. A form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties
2. Outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regulation over public and private life.
What was the Five Year Plan?
A series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union, beginning in the late 1920s.
What were Collective Farms?
State farms, which are owned directly run by a centralized goevernment.
Kulaks
The term which was used to describe peasants who owned over 8 acres (3.2 hectares) of land towards the end of the Russian Empire.