Chapter 3 Flashcards by Joshua Brown

What did Russia not win at the congress of berlin

Russo Turkish war

the spoils of war

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Until when do Rebel Moscow districts remain outside of government control

Russo-Japanese war

December 1905

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What did Witte draw up to stop the revolution

1905 revolution

October Manifesto

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what did the october manifesto create

1905 revolution

new council of ministers

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What did the october revolution replace the old council of ministers with

1905 Revolution

committee of ministers

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Who is Witte replaced by

1905 Revolution

Stolypin

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What did Russia remain after the 1905 revolution

1905 Revolution

autocracy

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How many executions were there in 1903 compared to 1909

1905 Revolution

23-537

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How many political murders was there between 1905-1907

1905 Revolution

3,000

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When did the Tsar take charge of the armed forces

WW1

1915

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When was Rasputin assasinated, month + year

WW1

December 1916

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Who was left in charge in Petrograd after the Tsar took to the front lines

WW1

Tsarina

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What caused the Tsarist government to collapse

WW1

wide spread strikes in St. Petersburg

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Who did the war make the proletariat oppose more

WW1

Tsar

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What did the soldiers who had to put down strikes do

WW1

joined the strikers

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When was the Kerensky Offensive, season + year

WW1

summer 1917

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How many were killed in the Kerensky offensive

WW1

60,000

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What did the Kerensky offensive lead to

WW1

July Days

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What did the July Days start off as

WW1

anti-war demonstration

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How many people attended the July Days

WW1

500,000

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What Revolt did the July Days lead to

WW1

Kornilov revolt

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What did the Bolsheviks offer during the war

WW1

“Peace, land and bread”

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How many attended an anti-war demonstration in Petrograd on May 1st 1917

WW1

100,000

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What was the peasants who served in the trenches coming back radicalised called

WW1

“Trench Bolshevism”

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What did the revolution establish | Russian Revolution 1917

dictatorship of the proletariat

When was the Provisional government overthrown | Russian Revolution 1917

October 1917

When was the Constituent Assembly overthrown | Russian Revolution 1917

January 1918

What organisation was instrumental in winning the Russian civil war | Russian Civil War

Cheka

Who was conscripted into the red army | Russian Civil War

peasants

Who was the chairman of the State Defence Committee | WW2

Stalin

What did The State Defence Committee have total control over | WW2

Lives of Russians

Who was the supreme commander of the military | WW2

Stalin

What happened to the Politburo between 1938-1948 | WW2

remained largely unchanged

How old was Stalin at the end of WW2 | WW2

What did Stalin do until his death in 1953 | WW2

Went into semi-retirement

When was the Cuban Missile Crisis | Cold War

1962

How many died in Hungarian uprising | Cold War

3,000

When was the East German Uprising | Cold War

1953

When was the Polish Crisis | Cold War

1956

What was set up to control the communist parties in Eastern Europe | Cold War

COMINFORM

When did Russia create ICBMs | Cold War

1957

When did Russia put a man in space | Cold War

1961

When did Russia put a satellite in space | Cold War

1957

How much railway was built between 1861 to 1878 | Crimean War

20,000km

How much was the cost of the railway built between 1861-1878 | Crimean War

2 billion

What did the Russo-Turkish war demonstrate | Russo-Turkish War

Russian economy could handle strains of war

What was done to solve the issue of troops getting to the far east | Russo-Japanese War

Trans-Siberian railway

What happened to the economy in WW1 | WW1

economy collapsed

How much did the government spend in 1913 | WW1

1.5 billion roubles

How much did the war cost in 1916 | WW1

3 billion

What did the Stavka blame the lack of Russian progress in the war in 1915 on | WW1

"shell-crisis"

What happened to many industrial enterprises in WW2 | WW2

moved beyond the Urals

What was the 4th five year plan | WW2

reconstruction program

How many POWs were used as conscripted labour | WW2

4 million

Where did Russia take financial aid from in WW2 | WW2

UN, USA France and Britain

What was the public works scheme that failed in WW2 | WW2

Volga-Don Canal

What was there in 1947 | WW2

famine

What policy in WW2 led to huge physical damage to agriculture in the western USSR | WW2

Scorched earth

What led to shortfalls in consumer goods in the USSR | Cold War

costly space and arms race

What was set up to coordinate the economies in Eastern Europe | Cold War

COMECON

How much had East Germany paid by 1950 | Cold War

$3.7 billion

What was the total amount of reparations that East Germany had been demanded by the USSR | Cold War

$10 billion

What % of Russian soldiers were illiterate in 1855 | Crimean war

93%

What fell out of government control due to the Russo-Japanese war | Russo-Japanese

large swathes of the country

What did nationalists use the war as an excuse to launch | Russo-Japanese

anti-Jewish pogroms

What reforms were promised after the 1905 revolution | 1905 revolution

improving living standards

How did workers benefit in WW1 | WW1

paid slightly more

How much did the bread ration fall by % wise in the first three months of 1916 in Petrograd | WW1

25%

Who caused peasant unrest in the countryside under the provisional government in WW1 | WW1

ex-soldiers

What do peasants "claim" under the provisional government in WW1 | WW1

land

After what event did the Bolsheviks promise "land" to the peasants | WW1

July days

When was abortion legalised | Russian Revolution

1926

When were civil marriages legalised | Russian Revolution

1918

when were church schools banned | Russian Revolution

1918

What did the decree on land ban | Russian Revolution

private property

What fined workers for mistakes | Russian Revolution

New work discipline

What % fine did the New Work Discipline give | Russian Revolution

10%

What was used as a tool of terror | Russian Civil war

Cheka

What made privale apartments illegal | Russian Civil war

Decree of the peace

how many soviets killed in WW2 | WW2

25 million

What % of Soviet men born in 1923 were killed in WW2 | WW2

80%

How many people were left homeless after WW2 | WW2

25 million

How many German women were raped by Russian soldiers during the final weeks of the war | WW2

2 million

Who was responsible for reforms introduced 1862-1874 | Crimean War

Milyutin

What did Milyutin base his reforms on | Crimean War

Prussian army

Chapter 3 Flashcards

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