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1312536437autocracya single person with unlimited power1
1312536438totalitariana government that takes total centralized state control over every aspect of public and private2
1312536439comradecommunist acquittance3
1312536440What happened on Bloody Sunday?200,000 workers protested in the square of Czar's garden because they wanted better working conditions.4
1312536441What good did Lenin do?He allowed a small scale of capitalism, peasants could sell surplus crops, said that small factories and businesses could be privately owned, and foreign investment.5
1312536442When Lenin weakened due to his stroke, which two guys came after his job?Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky6
1312536443What did Stalin use to dominate?Terror, indoctrination, propaganda, censhorship, and persecution of religion and ethnicity7
1312536444What did Stalin use the secret police for?To get tapped phone calls, read mail, have children tell on parents, and arresting people by night knocks.8
1312536445What did the Bolsheviks rename their party and who's writing did they use for their constitution?They renamed their party the Communist Party and used Karl Marx's writing for their constitution.9
1312536446What two groups does Russia divide into?Bolsheviks and Mensheviks10
1312536447What were the Bolsheviks?Radicals who supported a small number of commited revolutions.11
1312536448What were the Mensheviks?Moderate and wanted a large population backing them12
1312536449What was Vladimir Lenin like?He had an engaging personality, was ruthles, and the Father of Revolution.13
1312536450What did Lenin's good deeds allow?The USSR (Soviet Union/Union of Soviet Socialist Republic) to start pre-WWI production.14
1312536451What kind of rule did Lenin take after the constitution was written?Dictatorship15
1312536452After Lenin died, who took over and what did that leader do?Stalin took over and he took complete control in 1928, he transformed the government and the first thing he did was establish control in the government, economy and citizens private lives.16
1312536453What western ideas did totalitarian challenge?Reason, freedom, human dignity, and worth human individual.17
1341280191What religion did Stalin force everyone to be?Atheist18
1341280192What did Stalin do to all worship buildings and leaders?He burned all worship buildings and all worship leaders were either executed or sent to a labor camp.19
1341280193What did Stalin institute?a command economy20
1341280194command economysystem in which the g0vernment makes every economic decision21
1341280195What did Stalin give to the steel workers?Impossibly high quotas22
1341280196collective farmsfarms that were privately owned and taken by the government23
1341280197How did Russian women get treated?They got educated as skill workers, had free child care, got some of the same jobs as men, were 75 percent of all doctors, but still had to do normal household jobs. They were not only given the choice to have children but were required to have children.24

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