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- Frederick "The Ostentatious" got his nickname for his copy of:
- This is the period of 200 years of Mongol rule in the area of Russia/East Europe
- What position within the Mongol Empire did the nobility work to eventually gain status and power.
- He created the Pragmatic Sanction in 1713 as the last male of the Habsburg Dynasty.
- After the Besiege of Vienne the Habsburg Empire consisted of these three areas.
- He reduced Protestant leaders in power by placing Catholic nobility in their lands
- T or F? Nicholas failed to solve Russia's basic problems of political, economic, and social problems, which cause a revolution, but Nicholas wouldn't back down from giving up his power.
- The Red army defeated their enemies in...
- T or F? People kept trying to make revolutions, even Marxists tried to make a workers revolution.
- T or F? In 1914, Russia stretched from Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean, and was slow to industrialize?
- The greed and corruption of a few paired with the ignorance and willingness to follow of many
- Who led a revolution and successfully overthrew the tsarist regime and set upthe new government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- used by Stalin to crush opposition and strike terror in the population of Russia
- a style of propaganda artwork that praised Soviet lifestyle and communist values .
- wealthy peasants , will resist Stalin's collectivization of farming
- eliminating anyone who posed a threat to Stalin's power political rivals , prominent members of the Communist Party , and intellectuals )
- large tracts of land , confiscated by the state , to increase agricultural output across the Soviet Union
- official Newspaper of the Communist party
- the Soviet Union's economic development plan to increase agricultural and industrial output , results in the deaths of 10 million Russians
- a totalitarian government that expresses socialist values