AP EURO Russian Reovlution
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heather160 on March 4, 2010
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ap european history, AP European Hisory
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 russo-Japanese war | conflict between Russia and Japan over Manchuria and Korea |
| Alexander III | (1881) son of Alex II, increased use of secret police, censorship, exiles to Siberia, Russianunification to suppress non-Russians, pogroms |
| Pobiedonostsev | Chief of Russification |
| Constitutional Democrats | Also known as the Cadets, the party of the liberal bourgeoisie in Russia. DUMA |
| populists | a party made up of farmers and laborers that wanted direct election of senators and an 8hr working day |
| Social Revolutionaries | who believed that the overthrow of Czar would come from the Russian peasants Peasant revolution-- wanted to spread the land fairly among the people |
| social democrats | 2 groups: Bolsheviks and Mensheviks |
| bloody sunday | In Russia 1905 Russian soldiers inadvertently opened fire on demonstrators, turning them against the tsar. Possibly the start of the Revolution. |
| october manifesto | Issued in Russia because of fear of a general strike. Granted full civil rights and a popular parliament- Duma. |
| Peter Stolypin | Prime minister of Russia from 1906-1911. He was very involved in fighting radical groups and he also took upon himself various agrarian reforms - which he thought and were proven to be essential for the Russian economy. |
| father gapon | Leader of the factory workers who assembled before the czar's palace to petition him on January 1905 (Bloody Sunday). |
| supreme soviet | russia's "congress" |
| five year plan | Stalin's economic policy to rebuild the Soviet economy after WWI. tried to improve heavy industry and improve farm output, but resulted in famine |
| gosplan | under soviet command-economy socialism, the planning agency that had the respondibility of gradting the economic plan for the nation |
| general kornilov | Wanted to be the savior of Russia. Tried to stage a coup-demanded the resignation of all ministers Kerensky ordered him to turn over command. But soldiers refused to follow him. |
| leon trotsky | Lead the Bolsheviks of Russian along side Lenin. He was a spellbinding revolutionary orator and independent racial Marxist, who brilliantly executed the Bolshevik seizure of power by convincing the Petrograd Soviet to form a special military-revolutionary committee and make him its leader. His soldiers joined with the Bolsheviks to overtake members of the provisional government and win the vote of the Congress of soviets. He was also leader of the Red Army in the civil war.(908,910) |
| KGB | soviet committe on state security powerful intelligence and security agency |
| rasputin | Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II |
| politburo | the political bureau of the communist part; the small committee that held most of hte power in the soviet union. |
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