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| 60258343 | Nicholas I | (1825-1855) This tsar's ascent to the throne was challenged by the Decembrist Revolt/Official Nationality=1) Autocracy 2) Orthodoxy 3) Nationalism. | 0 | |
| 60258344 | Alexander II (1) | (1855-1881) This tsar cleans up the judicial system and emancipates the serfs in 1861 (before Lincoln). Serfs have right to pursue trades and buy+sell property. | 1 | |
| 60258345 | 49 | Russian government gives oput a____ year loan to freed serfs. | 2 | |
| 60258346 | MIR | communal landhold. Duty to family, people can't pay off govnt. loans. | 3 | |
| 60258347 | Alexander II (2) | This tsar set up local governing bodies to move away from autocray. He recruited soldiers from each village for 6 yrs. active and 9 yrs. reserve duty. | 4 | |
| 60258348 | Zemstvos | local governing bodies of Russia set up by Alexander II. | 5 | |
| 60258349 | 1812 Overture | This orchestral masterpiece represents the Battle of Boridino, combining the French Anthem (Marseilleis) and "God save the tsar" theme. | 6 | |
| 60258350 | Alexander III | Autocratic-minded tsar from 1881-1894. | 7 | |
| 60258351 | Nicholas II | tsar of WWI. 1)moves to Industrialize Russia.2)Soft hand opn revolutionary groups. | 8 | |
| 60258352 | Social revolutionaries | anti-industrail and anti-govnt. peasant farmers. in Russia A low percentage of the working class. | 9 | |
| 60258353 | Social Democrats | anti-govt. and anti-bourgrosie proletarians in Russia divided into two smaller factions. | 10 | |
| 60258354 | Mensheviks | Industrial proletarian workers in Russia. "Lesser" | 11 | |
| 60258355 | Bolsheviks | Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party of working class that took over the Russian goverment during WWI. | 12 | |
| 60258356 | Plekhanov | leader of the Mensheviks. | 13 | |
| 60258357 | Lenin | Bolshevik leader whose real name is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. | 14 | |
| 60258358 | Jan 22, 1905 | "Bloody Sunday" peaceful protest turns to massacre when soldiers open fire on Russian people. led to 10 months of revolts by the Russians, cutting off communication, transportation, etc. | 15 | |
| 60258359 | Duma | bicameral legislature, The elected parliament of Russia. Though through establishing this is seemed like the Czar was giving his people power, in reality he could easily get rid of this if they made any laws or such that he didn't like. | 16 | |
| 60258360 | Rasputin | Illiterate; self-proclaimed priest; popular with czar's family because he could heal czar's son's cases of hemophilia; able to control Russian govnt. thru tsarina while tsar was away fighting in war; murder attempt by a prostitue he forgot to pay; finally murdered after many, many attempts. | 17 | |
| 60258361 | Khlysty | group who believes salvation comes THROUGH sin. (massive orgy parties) | 18 | |
| 60258362 | Stranik | wandering preachers in Russia | 19 | |
| 60258363 | Starets | Russian preachers of RADICAL poverty. (think John the Baptist, and St. Francis of Assisi.) | 20 | |
| 60258364 | Yussapov | murderer of Rasputin | 21 | |
| 60258365 | Kerensky | Russian revolutionary who was head of provisional govnt. after Nicholas II abdicated but was overthrown by the Bolsheviks (1881-1970). | 22 | |
| 60258366 | October 1917 | Bolsheviks call for a desertion of the army. | 23 | |
| 60258367 | November 1917 | Red Army + Lenin overthrew a government that lacked any military support. "Russian Revolution" | 24 | |
| 60258368 | Brest Litovsk | Treaty ending the war between Russia and Germany. 90% of iron ore gone is biggest loss by Rus. | 25 | |
| 60258369 | Cheka | Secret police set up by Lenin to arrest "enemies of the revolution". became KGB. | 26 | |
| 60258370 | Red White | ______ Guard, controlling cities, politics, and weapons vs. ______ Russians, who own most of the farmlands and were helped by U.S. | 27 | |
| 60258371 | War Communism | Russia, government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants, and the centralization of state administration under Communist control by Bolsheviks. | 28 | |
| 60258372 | Polit Buro | Small grouyp of men who, guided by Lenin, make laws in temp. gov. | 29 | |
| 60258373 | New Economic Policy | Allowed private ownershop of farms, capitalist ventures with West, and peasants with small plots of land can sell surplus for profit. | 30 | |
| 60258374 | USSR/CCCP | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviations) | 31 | |
| 60258375 | 1924 | Lenin dies. power struggle btween Trotsky and Stalin. | 32 | |
| 60258376 | Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by "eliminating" all opposition (1879-1953). | 33 | |
| 60258377 | Okhrana | GEORGIAN secret police who arrested people that opposed the tsarist regime. | 34 | |
| 60258378 | Gensek | Russian abbreviation for "general secretary"/Stalin achieved this title | 35 | |
| 60258379 | Trotsky | Russian revolutionary in charge of the army. Pproposed radical equality with a focus on Rapid Industrialization and collectivizin farmlands. | 36 | |
| 60258380 | Iskra | group exiled to Siberia by tsarist govnt. | 37 | |
| 60258381 | Commissar Vanishes | "photoshoped" pictures so that Trotsky would never exist. | 38 | |
| 60258382 | Command Economy | An economic system in which the government controls a country's economy. Stalin bassically tricked the people into voting for him, then went against his own policies. | 39 | |
| 60258383 | Great Purge | (1931-39), Stalin cracked down on: Old Bolsheviks, army heroes, industrial managers, writers and citizens were all charged with a wide range of crimes, from plots to failure to not meeting production quotas. 12,000,000 "disappear". | 40 | |
| 60258384 | Article 125 | Soviet Constirution article allowing freedom of speech/press/demonstration/religion/etc. | 41 |
