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Vocabulary Terms
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Alexander III
Clue1: Czar who created a Police State
Clue2: Father to Nicholas II
Clue3: Attacked pogroms
Clue4: Became an autocratic ruler
Clue5: Father was assassinated
Alexander III
Duma
Duma
Clue1: Russian Congress
Clue2: Provisional Government
Clue3: Headed by Alexander Kerensky
Clue4: Formed during the reign of Czar Nicholas II
Clue5: An institution
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
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Headed command economy
Known for his Purges
Attacked Russian farmers Kulaks
Killed wife
Worst than Hitler
Five Year Plans
No religion
Collectives
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Every aspect of life is under control
One ruler
No elections
Police terror
Censored mass media
Totalitarian State
Totalitarian State
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
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Leader of the Bolsheviks
Father of Communism
Died in 1924
Still above ground - glass coffin
Slogan - Bread Peace Land
All power to the soviets
Provisional Government
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Overthrown by Bolsheviks
Duma
Prime Minister was Kerensky
Short-lived
Provisional Government
Pogroms
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Violent attacks against Jews
'Encouraged by Alexander III
Form of violent riot
A mob attack
Pogroms
Soviets
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Soviets
Council of workers
Revolutionaries in cities
City of Petrograd
Peasants and Soldiers as well
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Signed by the Bolsheviks
Got Russia out of World War I in 1917
Russia loss a chunk of land
Poland Finland and Romania
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
March Revolution
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1917 - Riots break out in Petrograd
Troops join the protesters
Duma forms a provisional government
Conflict over to continue fighting Germany
Duma forced the Czar to abdicate
Radical revolutionaries who had been living in exile return to Russia and form soviets
March Revolution
Leon Trotsky
Clue1: Leader of the Red Army
Clue2: Helped Lenin gain power
Clue3: Great organizer
Clue4: Killed in Mexico by Stalin's hit men
Leon Trotsky
Alexei
Clue1: Hemophilia or Haemophilia
Clue2: Only son
Clue3: Last hope for Romanovs
Clue4: Murdered on July 16, 1918 by secret police forces
Alexei
Rasputin
Clue 1: Self appointed holy man
Clue 2: Close to Alexandra
Clue 3: Healed Alexia
Clue 4: Helped destroy the rule of the czar
Clue 5: Hard to kill - Died December 30, 1916
Rasputin
Czar Nicholas II
Clue 1: Last of the Romanovs
Clue 2: Ruled like his father
Clue 3: Weak
Clue 4: Pleasure loving
Clue 5: Four girls and one son
Clue 6: German wife
Clue 7: Executed by the Bolsheviks
Czar Nicholas II
Bloody Sunday
Clue 1: Occurred in 1905
Clue 2: Same time as Russo Japanese War
Clue 3: 1,000 killed
Clue 4: Peaceful protest
Clue 5: St. Petersburg
Clue 6: Winter palace
Bloody Sunday
Alexandra
Clue 1: Last Tsarina of Russia
Clue 2: Royal carrier of the Haemophilia or Hemophilia disease
Clue 3: Friendship with the Russian mystic, Grigori Rasputin caused problems
Clue 4: German birth caused her to be rejected by the Russian people
Clue 5: Gave husband bad advice because of her belief in the divine right to rule
Clue 6: Executed with family July 17, 1918
Alexandra
November Revolution
Clue 1: November 6, 1917
Clue 2: Bolsheviks moved against Provisional Government in Petrograd
Clue 3: Provisional Government fails to restore the morale of Russian troops
Clue 4: Bolsheviks meet only light resistance
Clue 5: Lenin and Trotsky plan move to coincide with All-Russian Congress of Soviets
Clue 6: Lenin becomes leader and gets Russia out of the war
November Revolution
Civil War in Russia
Clue 1: Bolshevik forces officially renamed Communists in March 1918
Clue 2: Communist fight off a wide range of enemies
Clue 3: Opponents had no single leader to unite behind
Clue 4: 18 rival groups seeking to oust Communists
Clue 5: Communists called Reds and their opponents were called Whites
Clue 6: Trotsky organized an efficient Red Army";
Civil War in Russia