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Period 2

March 3, 2004

 

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION STUDY GUIDE

CH. 28

 

CH. 28

soviet – is a council of workers and soldiers. For a while they worked democratically within the government.

 

command economy – All economic activity was controlled by the government in which officers could make basic decisions. This economic work happened under Stalin.

 

collective – A large farm that was owned and operated by groups of peasants. Stalin often forced peasants to give up there own land and work on a collective.

 

kulak – they are wealthy people. Stalin destroyed (killed) many of these people.

 

totalitarian state – Where the government tries to control and regulate everything every person is doing. Marx turned the Soviet Union into this state.

 

socialist realism – To make artists and writers make Soviet life look good and positive. This was forced upon writers and Artisits by Stalin

 

Lenin - Lenin and the communists controlled much of the old Russian Empire known as the former USSR. Lenin died in 1924.

 

Osip Mandelstam - Mandelstam was a Jewish poet. He was imprisoned, tortured, and exiled for composing a satiricial verse about Stalin.

 

Nicholas II – He didn’t want people to be able to take his power. Therefore he blocked attempt for a constitution of a social change.

 

Gregory Rasputin – He claimed to be a “monk” but he was actually corrupt and fond of worldly pleasures. But his personality gave him a widespread reputation to be a healer.

 

Joseph Stalin – A dictator leader the rose to power after Lenin. He led Russia to a totalitarianism state and was a dictator.

 

Stalin's 5 Year Plan- This was a plan to achieve economic growth. He did this through heavy industry, improved transport, and increasing farm output.

 

socialist realism - This was a style that was to boost socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light. This is what Stalin forced writers and artists to do.

 

totalitarian state – This is the state Stalin put Russia in. It was when all the people and there lives were controlled by the government.

 

Anna Akhmatova - Russian poet whose work is characterized by personal themes and noted for its lyrical beauty. Banned by the Soviet government from 1946 to 1958, she is considered the greatest Russian woman poet.

 

V.I. Lenin - Russian founder of the Bolsheviks, leader of the Russian Revolution, and first head of the USSR. As a communist theoretician Lenin held that workers could not develop a revolutionary consciousness without the guidance of a vanguard party and that imperialism was a particular stage of capitalist development.

 

Mikhail Sholokhov - Russian writer whose four-part novel And Quiet Flows the Don concerns the effect of World War I and the Russian Revolution on Cossack life. He won the 1965 Nobel Prize for literature.

 

Joseph Stalin - A dictator leader the rose to power after Lenin. He led Russia to a totalitarianism state and was a dictator.

 

Leon Trotsky – he is a brilliant Marxist like thinker. Also he was a skillful speaker and a leader in the Bolshevik Revolution.

 

socialist revolution - This was the group of followers that suupported Lenin when he changed from Communism to the totalitarian state. Under socialism, they controlled propaganda and other such things.

 

Bolshevik Revolution –It took place in November in 1917. The red guards joined forces with the sailors and attacking the provisional government.

 

Lenin's New Economic Policy – He put the economy in a communist state. HE did this after settling down a civil war.

 

Stalin - A dictator leader the rose to power after Lenin. He led Russia to a totalitarianism state and was a dictator.

 

Stalin's 5 Year Plan – This was a plan to achieve economic growth. He did this through heavy industry, improved transport, and increasing farm output.

 

The arts under Stalin – He made artists and writers write and paint about him and communism. He wanted them to show the greatness of communism

 

List three causes of the 1917 revolution in Russia- The Russian people were sick of the disease, Hunger, and the dictator getting all the goods.

 

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