WW1 Russian Govt Flashcards

132845060	Bolshevik	a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party	0
132845061	Romanov Dynasty	Ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917.	1
132845062	Nicholas II	The last czar of Russia, he abdicated in 1917 and was murdered in 1918 along with his family. Though generally regarded as a decent man, he was an extremely weak and ineffective leader.	2
132845063	March Revolution	In 1917 in Russia it was the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Its immediate result was the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, the collapse of Imperial Russia and the end of the Romanov dynasty. A provisional, non-Communist government under Prince Georgy Lvov replaced the Czar, Prince Lvov being succeeded by Alexander Kerensky after the tumult of the July Days. The Provisional government was an alliance between liberals and socialists who wanted to instigate political reform, creating a democratically-elected executive and constituent assembly.	3
132845064	Soviets	a Russian council composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers.	4
132845065	Vladimir Ilyich Lenin	opponent of Tsarist Russia, began to immerse himself in Marxian socialist ideas as a law student. He then went on to form the Bolsheviks, and tried to start a revolution in July 1917. It failed, he went into hiding, but regrouped in Petrograd, where he and his partner Trotsky gained power. He then moved on government buildings, and was declared the head of the new Bolshevik government.	5
132845066	Marxist	emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries	6
132845067	Socialist Society	A society where the government controls the people who are all equal and controls their rights and their economy and production.	7
132845068	November Revolution	They took military control in the capital and on November 6th, took over the government buildings. Lenin was named the head of the government by a congress of soviets after this.	8
132845069	"peace, land and Bread"	The slogan used by Lenin to win the support of the people; Peace appealed to the soldiers; Land appealed to the peasants; and Bread appealed to the workers.	9
132845070	Treaty of Brest Litovsk	march 3, 1918. signed w/ Russia's Bolshevik government and Germany. Gave up one-fourth of the surface of what had been imperial European Russia—very fertile land, most of iron and steel production. Agreed to German occupation of Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. Acquiesced to pulling Russian troops out of Ukraine and Finland(Germans then occupied all of these areas and set up puppet regimes and got Ukraine into a harsh treaty). This angered the leftist Socialist Revolutionaries who then ended their cooperation with the Bolsheviks.	10