§upa - Jeopardy - 36 - The Russian Revolution Flashcards

A list of Jeopardy terms relating to the Russian Revolution

21889074	Tsar Nicholas II	Russia's ruler from 1894 until 1917	0
21889075	Strikes	Work stoppages that forced the tsar to make some changes	1
21889076	Army	Important strategic body that remained loyal to the tsar in 1905	2
21889077	Industrial Development	Russia had very little of this kind of development.	3
21889078	Students, Workers, Peasants	The three groups who protested their discontent	4
21889079	Peasants	Russian people who lived in poverty after being freed	5
21889080	Absolute Monarchy	Russia's form of government before the revolution	6
21889081	Bloody Sunday	Violent event of 1905 when soldiers shot peaceful marchers	7
21889082	Good Equipment, Supplies, Leadership	World War I Russian soldiers lacked these necessities.	8
21889083	Petrograd	Capital of tsarist Russia	9
21889084	Civil Liberties	The Russian people were promised these in 1905 but never got them.	10
21889085	Railroads, Good Roads	Russia had few of these two essentials of transportation.	11
21889086	Strikes, Street Demonstrations	Two kinds of events that broke out in 1917	12
21889087	Soldiers	Members of this key group deserted the government and joined the rioters.	13
21889088	Japan	Defeat in a war against this small country in 1904-05 exposed the Russian gov't's weakness.	14
21889089	Revolution of 1905	Uprising that forced some temporary reforms	15
21889090	Duma	Parliament created after the 1905 uprising	16
21889091	Casualties	These were enormous for Russia in World War I.	17
21889092	October Manifesto	Decree of 1905 that promised individual liberties and limited elections	18
21889093	Dissolve the Legislature	The tsar's reaction to the legislature's demands for reform	19
21889094	Abdicated	The Romanov monarchy ended in March 1917 when the tsar did this.	20
21889095	Soviets	Local revolutionary councils of workers and soldiers	21
21889096	Bolsheviks	The radical Marxists	22
21889097	Lenin	Leader of the Bolsheviks	23
21889098	Proletariat	Class, very small in Russia, that Marx expected would revolt	24
21889099	Red	Symbolic revolutionary color adopted by the communists	25
21889100	Provisional Government	Temporary government set up in March 1917	26
21889101	Mensheviks	The moderate Marxists	27
21889102	Soviets	Groups that rivaled the temporary government for power	28
21889103	Lenin	Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov	29
21889104	Marxism	Lenin modified this socialistic-communistic philosophy.	30
21889105	Exile (Switzerland)	Where Lenin had lived before his return to Russia	31
21889106	Bolshevik Revolution (2nd Russian Revolution)	The seizure of power in November 1917	32
21889107	Communist Party	New name for the Bolsheviks as of 1918	33
21889108	Civil War	After the second revolution, Russia suffered through three years of this.	34
21889109	Red Army	The military forces of the new government	35
21889110	Romanovs	Russian family whose rule ended in 1917	36
21889111	Germany	Country that arranged for Lenin's return to Russia from exile	37
21889112	"Peace, Land, Bread"	Lenin's slogan	38
21889113	Central Powers	World War II participants with whom Russia signed peace treaties	39
21889114	Whites	Russians who fought the Communists from 1917 to 1920	40
21889115	Allies	Western nations that helped the Whites with money, arms, and troops	41
21889116	March Revolution	The uprising that ousted the tsar	42
21889117	Moscow	New communist capital of the U.S.S.R.	43
21889118	Petrograd	Old, precommunist capital of Russia	44
21889119	Socialism	Guiding economic system of the U.S.S.R.	45
21889120	Execution	Fate of the tsar and his family	46
21889121	Starvation	Agriculture declined so badly, city people faced this.	47
21889122	Government	Owner of the major industries	48
21889123	Soviet Union	Alternative name for the U.S.S.R.	49
21889124	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	Russia's official new name	50
21889125	Nicholas, Alexandra	Tsar and tsarina who were the last ruling monarchs of Russia	51
21889126	Republics	Separate government entities joined together in the federal union	52
21889127	Marxism-Leninism	Lenin's modified version of Marxist theory	53
21889128	"One Step Backward"	Lenin decided the U.S.S.R. had to take this before it could take "two steps forward"	54
21889129	Foreign Capital	Outside source of funds welcomed for development	55
21889130	Red Army	Groups whose needs were first met during the war	56
21889131	Industry, Industrial Workers	Lack of this made it difficult to build a Marxist society.	57
21889132	Small group of Bolsheviks	People who carried out the revolution instead of the workers	58
21889133	Communist Party	Organization that ruled the Soviet Union under Lenin	59
21889134	Western Capitalism	Marx based his "scientific socialism" on this form of economic development	60
21889135	New Economic Policy	Lenin's economic policy, which was not pure Marxism	61
21889136	Free Enterprise	Lenin's economic policy allowed some of this.	62
21889137	Red Terror	Wave of executions similar to the French Reign of Terror	63
21889138	National Congress	Huge representative body that had little real power	64
21889139	Stalin	Secretary general of the Communist Party and Lenin's successor	65
21889140	Totalitarian State	Type of state established by Stalin	66
21889141	Command Economy (State-Controlled)	Type of economy Stalin established	67
21889142	Consumer Goods	These were sharply reduced while heavy industry was vastly expanded.	68
21889143	Peasants	People who fiercely resisted Stalin's agricultural policy	69
21889144	"Man of Steel"	English translation of the Russian word stalin	70
21889145	Trotsky, Stalin	Main rivals for post-Lenin leadership	71
21889146	All over the world	Where the revolution had to take place, according to Marx, in order to be successful	72
21889147	U.S.S.R. Only	Where the revolution should stay for the time being, according to Stalin	73
21889148	Five-Year Plans	Master plans of Soviet growth	74
21889149	Collectives (State-owned)	All farms, under Stalin	75
21889150	Russian Orthodox Church	Organization that lost its property	76
21889151	Atheism	Belief taught to children in place of religion	77
21889152	Socialist Realism	Artistic style required under Stalin	78
21889153	Politburo	Arm of the Communist party that held most power	79
21889154	Purges	Stalin's "purification," or removal of everyone not loyal to him	80
21889155	Georgia	Stalin's native republic	81
21889156	Trotsky	Lev Bronstein, brilliant party organizer	82
21889157	Exile	Outcome of the power struggle for Trotsky	83
21889158	Murder	Trotsky's final fate	84
21889159	Supreme Soviet	The parliament under Stalin	85
21889160	Comintern	Organization that agitated for the overthrow of capitalist governments	86
21889161	Presidium	Small ruling committee of the parliament	87