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- A local dictator in Mexico during the Revolution. He used violence against anyone who spoke out against him
- These are the reasons that the United States entered World War 1
- policy of abolishing private farms and replacing them with state collective farms
- Feb 1917: Bread riots in St. Petersburg led to the _________
- A term referring to the two governments that Russia had following the February Revolution—the provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet.
- What were three reasons the Russians were at a disadvantage from the beginning of the war? (RR)
- ________________ was driven by the pursuit of "humane socialism," the romantic dream to make socialism live up to its promises and reinvigorate the party
- Stalin's launch of a wave of radical economic policies which completely overhauled industrial and agricultural face of the ussr; make up 150 years of industrial production in 10 years
- 1921-1928: Relaxed state control over the economy, legalization of the Black Market, legalization of private trade
- -Bipartisan resolve of containment-WWII victory over Fascist and post-war capitalist economy-Consumer revolution, decolonization, massive social welfare investments-Socialism=NOT a better standard of living than capitalismAll are reasons for...
- The changes made by Alexander II around the 1860s that included abolishing serfdom and creating zemstovs.
- a system of governance in which the ruler treats the state as personal property (state has power over all property)
- Socialism consistent with the ideals in its original ideology
- (end of 1930s) A campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened Stalin's power
- -Vast land space-Expeditures on army/navy-Short growth period-Limited ocean access
- (Why Nationalism became a problem): -Soviet U made nationalism stronger; divided Union into republics based on nationalist identity-Gave each republic some autonomy -Party secretary had to be that nationality
- An agreement between the central government and the republics of the former USSR that would give the republics more autonomy.
- -Passed laws to give more autonomy to managers to respond to consumers, more market freedoms-Printed Rubles to make up for budget deficit
- Fear of ethnic/neighboring republic gaining independence, Russian's tried to assimilate local elites into their circles "Russify" as many populations as possible
- treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania