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History of Russia
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Undergraduate 2
10/10/2010

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Leader of the Mensheviks
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Molotov
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Bolshevik leader who in 1921 argued against Lenin on behalf of the trade unions (she also debated with him about drinking water from a glass)
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Kollontai
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Country Russia fought against, 1904-1905
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Japan
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Document issued by Nicholas II in 1904 that promised Russians a parliament and basic civil rights
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October Manifesto
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Poet who told everyone to march to the "Left! Left! Left"
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Mayachoftsky
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Political leader who said "A rising of the masses of the people requires no justification"
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Trotsky
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Political party that won Russia's first ever free election in late November 1917
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Socialist Revolutionaries
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Finance Minister who developed and led Russia's program of railroad building and industrialization
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Victor
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Prime Minister who beginning in 1805 tried to help the peasantry with his "wager on the strong"
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Stolypin
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Name of the organization that assassinated Alexander II
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Peoples Will
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The two institutions that shared authority in 1917 during the period of "dual power"
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Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet
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Name of the politcal platform Lenin issued upon returning to Russia in 1917
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April Theses
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Russia's most powerful enemy during World War I
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Germany
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  • Father of populism
  • Discovered Socialism for USSR
  • Get Socialism while skipping Capitalism - After being exiled to Europe and saw capitalism causing factories to suck

 

 

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Herzen
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  • Writes "What is to be Done"
  • Peasants are stupid and can't do anything themselves
  • Idea of Professional Revolutionist

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Chernyshevsky
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  • Formation of underground revolutionary party
  • Once revolution is done elite has to keep power
  • Russia is unstable, capitalism is coming for Russia and it will make it stable, we have to act fast before then

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Tkachev
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  • Law passed by Alexander II
  • Freed the peasants
  • Mir still exists because of tax reasons
  • Redemption Payments

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Emancipation Edict
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