Bolsheviks
supported a small number of committed revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for radical change
Vladimir lenin
leader of the bolsheviks
Duma
Russias first parliament approved by nicholas
Rasputin
claimed to have magical healing powers, when nicholas left alexandra to run the government she listened to Raputin instead of the Czars chief advistors
Soviets
local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers
Joseph Stalin
bolshevik, changed his name to stalin(man of steel), cold, hard and impersonal, worked with lenin but lenin did not trust him
Totalitarianism
a government that takes total centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life
Great Purge
a campaign of terror, eliminated anyone who threatened the communist party, thousands of bolsheviks were killed
Why was the Bolshevik group unhappy with the Czar of Russia
because he was killing them for minor crimes
Why did the aristocrats in Russia not like Gregory Rasputin? What did they do to him
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What type of government did stalin implement in Russia
a command economy- a system in which the government made all economic decisions
How did stalin plan to rebuild the economy
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Be familiar with the goal of propaganda and how was it used in communist Russia
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what was education like in communist russia
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