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This is the year that This is the year that the two Russian the two Russian

Revolutions occurred Revolutions occurred that toppled the that toppled the Russian Empire.Russian Empire.

What is 1917?

This is the family This is the family that was on the that was on the throne of Russia throne of Russia

since 1613.since 1613.

Who were the Romanovs?

The first Russian The first Russian Revolution begins in Revolution begins in

this city.this city.

What was St. Petersburg or Petrograd?

What decision by the What decision by the Duma proved fatal for Duma proved fatal for

establishing a establishing a constitutional constitutional

government in Russia.government in Russia. What was for Russia to keep fighting WWI?

These are the two These are the two months that the months that the

Revolutions of 1917 Revolutions of 1917 occurred.occurred.

What were March and November or February and October on the Russian Calendar?

He was the leader of He was the leader of the Bolsheviks. the Bolsheviks.

Who was Vladimir Lenin?

He was the Czar of He was the Czar of Russia until he was Russia until he was

executed by the executed by the communists.communists.

Who was Czar Nicholas II?

These two men These two men struggled for control of struggled for control of the Soviet Union after the Soviet Union after

Lenin’s death.Lenin’s death.

Who were Stalin and Trotsky?

This leader of the This leader of the Soviet Union Soviet Union

established atheism as established atheism as the official religion of the official religion of

the state.the state.Who was Joseph Stalin?

She was the carrier of She was the carrier of the hemophilia gene the hemophilia gene

that spread throughout that spread throughout the royal families of the royal families of

Europe.Europe.Who was Queen Victoria?

This is the type of This is the type of government that government that

regulates every aspect regulates every aspect of its citizens’ lives. of its citizens’ lives.

What is a Totalitarian Government or State?

This is a large farm This is a large farm owned and owned and

operated by the operated by the state. state.

What is a collective?

They were wealthy They were wealthy peasants in Russia.peasants in Russia.

Who were the Kulaks?

This was another This was another name for Stalin’s name for Stalin’s Reign of Terror.Reign of Terror.

What was The Great Purge?

These were training These were training camps established for camps established for

Soviet teenagers Soviet teenagers interested in party interested in party

membership.membership.What was the Komsomol?

This was Lenin’s This was Lenin’s economic policy after economic policy after

1921.1921.

What was the New Economic Policy some capitalism, but the state owned or controlled the banks, large factories, and foreign trade?

These were the These were the attempts by Stalin to attempts by Stalin to

industrialize the Soviet industrialize the Soviet Union.Union.

What were the Five Year Plans?

This was the official This was the official newspaper of the newspaper of the Communist party Communist party and it meant truth and it meant truth

in Russian.in Russian.What was the Pravda?

This segment of This segment of Russian society did Russian society did

benefit from the benefit from the Communist Revolution, Communist Revolution,

but ended up still but ended up still working at home, and working at home, and

at the workplace. at the workplace. Who were women?

This was the Treaty This was the Treaty negotiated between negotiated between

Russia and Germany in Russia and Germany in 1918, and ended 1918, and ended

Russia’s involvement Russia’s involvement in WWI.in WWI.

What was the Treaty of Brest -Litovsk?

This was the type of This was the type of art and literature art and literature

practiced in the Soviet practiced in the Soviet Union to promote Union to promote

socialism.socialism.

What was Socialist Realism?

These were three These were three religions that were religions that were discouraged from discouraged from practicing in the practicing in the

Soviet Union.Soviet Union. What was Christianity, Judaism and Islam?

This is the place where This is the place where many of the enemies many of the enemies of the state were sent of the state were sent

if they were not if they were not executed.executed.

What was Siberia?

This was the type This was the type of economy of economy

practiced by the practiced by the Soviet Union.Soviet Union.

What was a command economy – the state controls the means and amount of production?

This was the This was the propaganda branch of propaganda branch of the Communists that the Communists that

vowed to spread vowed to spread Communism around Communism around

the world.the world. What was the Comintern?