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Russian Revolution
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1907
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Second imperial Duma
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1881-1894
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Reign of Alexander III
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Bolsheviks
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communist revolutionaries under leadership of Vladmir Lenin
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Russian Federation
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Formal name of Russia
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Apparatchik
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full time communist party worker/bureaucrat, 'man of the apparatus
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anti-semitism
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fear of hatred of Jews
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Third International
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Moscow-dominated organization of com parties around the world between world wars
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shock therapy
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policies in formerly communist countries that envisage as rapid a shift to a market economy as possible
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great economic potential (oil and natural gas)
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transcaucasia
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GOSPLAN:
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Soviet agency responsible for central economic planning through ‘five-year plans’
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autocrat
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a ruler who had unlimited power
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Reaissance
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rebirth - mongols controled russians so they never got a chance to see how decmoarry worked
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Yabloko
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One of the leading reformist parties in Russia
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Provisional Government
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generic term used to describe temporary governments formed until a new constitution is written, also the government in Russia between the two 1917 revolutions
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1861- 1905
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Russian economy improved due to peasant land hunger and gentry's need to liquidate land to support lavish lifestyles
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Stolypin
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Tsar appointed a new prime minister. He used a carrot and a stick to approach the problem in Russia. He was assassinated in 1911.
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free enterprise system
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under free enterprise where businesses are privately owned
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MECHANISM (political socialization)
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wholesale application of serfdom reinforced the central political idea of the regime: submission to authority
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privatization
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transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control
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Pogrom
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organized acts of voilence against the Jews
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Slavs
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were farmers and hunter settled in ukraine. in around 600 AD
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Fatherland-All Russia
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A leading opposition party in Russia in the 1999 Duma elections
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December 3, 1905
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The St. Petersburg headquarters for the Soviets were taken out. By the end of Dec. the revolution was over.
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ethnic groups
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people who people who have common language
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NGO non-governmental organizations
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non-profit and voluntary groups that serve as citizen advocates and government watchdogs
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caliphate
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a state founded and governed by the laws of Islam
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Vladimir Putin
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2nd president of Russia, today the prime minister; the man who truly controls Russia
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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A leader of the Russian Social Democratic Party who forced the split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks at the London Conference of 1903. He led the Bolshevik party and laid the foundations of the party's ideology.
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October Revolution
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Was the second phase of the Russian Revolution. It was led by Vladimir Lenin, and marked the first officially communist revolution of the twentieth century.
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rule of law
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the legal doctrine that no individual is above the law and that everyone must answer to it; i.e., no impunity for crimes
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Five Year Plan
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plan of Stalin's to increase industry and agricultural production in orger to catch up with the West
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Tsar Nicholas II
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He was the last emperor of Russia. Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917, served as the last emperor of Russia from 1895 to 1917. He, his wife, and their children were executed following the October Revolution.
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st petersurg
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captial built by peter the great , was by sea
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