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HI 102 test 3
pages 352-357
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10/30/2011

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White Russians
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opposed the Communists
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Red Russians
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favored the Communists
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Red Army
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Leon Trotsky formed this to combat the White Russians
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Central Committee
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all power actually resided in the Community Party and it ruling elite, ________, under the leadership of Lenin
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Third International
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a terorist organization dedicated to inciting Communist revolution and establishing a worldwide Communist state
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War Communism
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an attempt to centralize all of Russia's economic assets under the control of the Communist Party
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New Economic Policy
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a form of state capitalism
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/USSR
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to bring all of the non-Russian nationalities under one centralized Communist regime.
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Joseph Stalin
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he became the master of the Soviet Union
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Five-Year Plan
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goal was to tranform the Soviet Union from a backward agrarian country into an industrial and military superpower
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collectivized
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forcing small, private farms to band together into large collective farms supervised by appointed managers
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Ukraine
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one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world
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genocide
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the extermination of a political, cultural, or ethnic group
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Great Purge
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a reighn of terror rooting anyone who posed even the slightest threat to his authority
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