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- Who took charge of Russia's forces, even though he had no ability or training?
- What palace did the Bolshevik forces seiz of Nov. 6?
- Moses the raven(tells animals about sugar candy mountain, animals go there if work hard, snowball and major were against him, thought heaven was a lie, napoleon let him stay cuz it got animals to work)
- what 3 countries were most upset at the end of WW1? (extra)
- *responsible for creating the Russian army*when Lenin passed the power could have been passed to him OR Stalin *he was a brilliant Marxist thinker and engineer of the revolution *him and Stalin fought over power after Lenin's death*he was for worldwide socialism movement *he was isolated by Stalin and eventually was killed by a Russian secret agent
- *created a "cult of personality" to help him control Russia, giving him a god like persona*marx predicted that the government would disappear under him, the opposite was true*he bombarded the people with constant communist propaganda glorifying themselves while demonizing the west*his supporters were glorified as hero's *he forced artist to conform to social realism*they could criticize the czars, but had to show Stalin as a hero as well as the working class
- *when Nicholas II went to control the war, he left his wife Czarina Alexandra in charge.*since she was unfit to rule, she was under control of ________*he was not an actual priest, but he gained a reputation as a healer*the Czarina believed in his power because he had apparently healed her son through hypnosis*the Czarina did whatever he said*he was invited to a party by Prince Felix Yussoupou and he was poisoned, which had no effect*the conspirators then lured him into a basement, where he was shot. he then hot up and attacked the Prince and escaped the palace*the assassins found him and shot him a second one time, when he got up again...they beat him until he could not move. they then dumped his body into a river and later it was concluded his cause of death was drowning
- *stalin initiated*old Party leaders, army heroes, writers, peasants, & industrial managers were arrested by secret police under charges ranging from counter-revolution to not meeting production quotes*victims were often tourchee and forced to confess to crime they may not have committed. Once confessed they were sentenced to death or hard labor
- *soviets fell under him*born in 1870 to a middle class family*hated the czar since his brother was executed for attempting to assassinate the czar*he began to read Marx & spread socialist propaganda *he remade Marx philosophy to fit Russia *he set up a "Dictatorship for the proletariat" called the Bolsheviks (majority)*the German government helped Lennon get back to Russia *he organized a secret police (Cheka)*they were responsflr the assasination of the czar and his family
- When Russia left WW1, they started their own revolution called..
- *majority*dictatorship set up by Lenin *redistributed the land & put the factories under the control of the workers*joseph Stalin also joined this party
- *communism, political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society
- *created this to industrialize Russia*he created a plan*in order to do this, he placed all economic activities under government control
- *Stalin forced all peasants to give up their private slots of land and live on either state controlled farms, large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group. All farm animals and tools became property of the collective. People responded by killing their livestock
- *introduced by Lenin*it allowed for capitalist ventures*banks,foreign trade & large industries were now put under government control but small shops could be privately owned. This resulted in a stabilization of the economy
- The Marxist Social Democratic Party was divided into what two groups in 1903?
- When did Tsar Nicholas II abdicate (leave the throne)?
- What did the middle classes and liberal aristocrats advocate (support) or want?
- Pearl Harbor, entry of U.S. into WWII
- communists gained power, government was overthrown