Romanov Dynasty

 The Romanov Dynasty took place from 1613 to March 15, 1917.

 The House of Romanov was the second dynasty to rule Russia, after the House of Rurik, reigning from 1613 until the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II on March 15, 1917, as a result of the February Revolution.

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Rasputin

Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.

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Felix Yussoupovn

Felix Yussoupovn was from a influentail Russian family.

Prince Felix Yussoupovn was the second of two sons born to Princess Zinaida Yussupova and her husband Count Elston-Sumarokoff. He was a Russian aristocrat, the Yusupov family, best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin.

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Revolution of 1905

Russian Revolution of 1905, uprising that was instrumental in changing Russian government into a constitutional monarchy. 

Russian Revolution of 1905, uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy.

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Duma

A Duma was the Lower House and part of the legislative assembly in the late Russian Empire.

The State Duma or Imperial Duma was the Lower House, part of the legislative assembly in the late Russian Empire, which held its meetings in the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg.

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March Revolution

March Revolution was the start of the German revolutions of 1848–49.

The opening phase of the German revolutions of 1848–49. February Revolution of 1917 in Russia. Ruhr Uprising of 1920 in the Weimar Republic.

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November Revolution

The November Revolution helped create the Weimar Republic.

 Was a civil conflict in the German Empire at the end of the First Worlds War that resulted in the replacement of the German federal constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliamentary republic that later became known as the Weimar Republic.

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Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was to tear Russia apart for three years between 1918 and 1921

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.

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War Communism

The Mensheviks opposed war communism, and in 1919 suggested an alternative programme.

 was the name given to the economic system that existed in Russia from 1918 to 1921.

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New Economic Policy

When the New Economic Policy began, their publicity resulted in architectural commissions.

was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who described it as a progression towards "state capitalism" within the workers' state of the USSR.

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Lenin

Lenin and Mao studied them as they prepared their own revolutions.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

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Trotsky

Mercader drove a pick-ax into Trotsky's head.

 was a Marxist revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician. Initially supporting the Menshevik Internationalists faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, he joined the Bolsheviks just before the 1917 October Revolution, immediately becoming a leader within the Communist Party.

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Stalin

Instead of helping, Stalin plays a cat and mouse game.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian-born Soviet revolutionary and political leader.

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Five Year Plans

The Five Year Plan required the development of many industrializing projects.

The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the Soviet Union consisted of a series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union, beginning in the late 1920s.

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The Great Purge

Kalinin kept a low profile during the Great Purge of 1937.

The Great Purge or the Great Terror was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.

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Kulaks

Many " Kulaks " along with families were deported from Ukraine.

Kulaks 'fist', by extension 'tight-fisted'; kurkuli in Ukraine, also used in Russian texts were a category of affluent peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and the early Soviet Union.

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Cheka

She was shot by the Cheka on May 16, 1920.

Cheka was the initialism for the first of a succession of Soviet secret police organizations.

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Gulags

Some beautiful women went to gulags because they wore American fashions.

The Gulag was the government agency created under Vladimir Lenin which reached its peak as the Soviet forced labor camp system during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s up until the 1950s.

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