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- Which Soviet leader began his "rule" with a famous "Secret Speech," in which he disclosed the crimes of his predecessor's era?
- The policies of glasnost and perestroika were introduced after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- Which leader famously introduced the term "new thinking"?
- This man decided to bring Russia into WWI and was the last Romanov czar of Russia.
- This mysterious "holy man" held Czarina Alexandra in his spell by seeming to heal her son Alexis,until a group of Russian nobles murdered him.
- Russia's defeat in this military action sparked unrest at home and led to the racist belief in the"Yellow Peril."
- This was the longest continuous rail line system in the world in 1916.
- This small group of committed revolutionaries masterminded the revolution in Nov.1917.
- He was the major leader of the Bolsheviks and the first Communist leader of Russia.
- This was the influential local council of workers, peasants, and soldiers, formed by socialrevolutionaries in cities such as Petrograd.
- This type of organized violence against Jews was encouraged by Alexander III.
- This man's writings in which the workers rule in a classless society are the basis for Communism inthe world.
- This government was overthrown by the Bolshevik Revolution.
- This body, Russia's first parliament, urged the government to move toward a constitutionalmonarchy.
- After the assassination of this czar's reform minded father by revolutionaries, he was determined tostrengthen "autocracy, orthodoxy, and nationality."
- This man was returned to Russia courtesy of the Germans in a sealed railway boxcar.
- This army, led by Lenin, ultimately won the Russian civil war.
- What reforms did the Tsar introduce in 1905 following an attempted revolution? Were these reforms effective?
- How did the Soviets want to approach the war now that the Tsar was gone?
- What caused the downfall of the provisional government in October 1917?