History of Russia Questions
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1st president ____________ (1991-2000)2nd president________ (2000-2004)(2004-2008)
__________- is the Russian word for "council". Soviets sprang up throughout the industrial centers of russia. Workers "councils" were seen as a rebirth for Russia. The public mood about "soviets" was happy
_______ as the Soviet Union was collapsing ___________ was elected president (1st ever) while Gorbachev was still general secretary. Gorbachev resigns. Leningrad goes back to St. Petersburg
_________ are areas of _________. There have been secessionist movements in most republics but are not very strong
Stalin will win the power struggle , by 1925 he changes the russian town of ___________ to _____________
____________- this grew out of discontented revolutionary communist workers and peasants and they will help the bolsheviks accomplish their goals of taking over the russian government
Russian czars were __________. Serfdom (a feudal system where peasants worked land rented from a noble) existed in Russia until 1861
Czar Nicholas II (Last Romanov Czar) panics at the protest, he sends out his imperial guard who guns down the protestors. The protestors were worming men marching for better working conditions and wages. Czar had a group of advisors called the State Council of Imperial Russia, they pressured the czar to relate a legislative body to give the _________ _____ a voice in government. The ______ is created.
_________ red army (communist) vs. many others Anti communist white army Ukranian nationalist greenArmy anarchist black army Black guards etc.
___________: money raised from phase 1 collective farming would be used to industrialize russia. Stalin initiates his __________ which called for the doubling of coal, iron, oil, and steel. Each farm and factory had to meet quotas. If you fell short you were tortured
Lenin's mausoleum is now located in.....
__________- a Russian fortress, a fortified central complex found in many historic Russian cities. The most famous kremlin is in Moscow
* Stalin dies in 19531953-55 general secretary Georgy makenkov1955-1964 ________________ rules. He spent 3 hours before the communist congress detailing stalin's crimes. he will change Stalingrad back to Volgograd
____________________ founded _______________ because it was a great seaport for the Russian navy.
The politburo will change Petrograd to __________ to honor Lenin
After Bloody Sunday ________ ______ will become the founder of the "_________ ______" (the term Russian Social Democratic Labor" was also used for the Bolshevik Party = it will become the communist party that rules the USSR).
In July 1917 ___________________ pro democracy, serves as the prime minister in the Russian provisional (temporary) government
The ______ (created by czar Nicholas II) after 1905 Bloody Sunday. It became (and still is) the "lower house" of the Russian parliament.
In April 1917___ comes back to russia in a sealed train (Germans helped him return)
___________________________ the bolsheviks storm the winter palace. This event is called "_______" _________, ____________, or _____________, bolsheviks lead an armed insurrection with Trotsky's red army to destroy the provisional government. Mère sky is replaced by Lenin (Kerr sky went into exile (3 places) until he ends up in the US and dies in 1970) Russia is on the Julian calendar while the rest of the world is on the Gregorian calendar. To the rest of the world, the russian revolution was Nov 7, 1917