Russian Revolution

  • Alexander III

    Autocracy
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    Russian Revolution

  • Russian Marxism

    Russian Marxism began in 1883
  • Nicholas II

    Succesor of Alexander III.
    He wanted to preserve Russian's Czarist rule
  • Vladmir Lenin

    Major leader of the Bolsheviks
  • Communism

    Communism was introcuded as early as 1840, but used by Russia around 1900 and for many years to follow.
  • Marxism

    The writings and works of Karl marx, it is basically a form of communism.
  • Censorship

    In the early 1900's during the russian revolution, the soviet's government censorship changed dramatically. Censorshp is the government or military hiding certain details from the public eye.
  • Bolsheviks

    The Russian Marxist split into two groups, the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. The Mensheviks wanted a broad base of popular support for the revolution. The Bol's supported a small number of committed revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for a radical change.
  • Trans-Siberian Railway

    The world's longest coninuouts rail line. It began in 1891, and ended in 1904. It connected European Russia in the west with Russian ports on the Pacfic Ocean in the east.
  • Bloody Sunday

    200,000 workers attacked the czar's winter palace in St. Petersburg. They killed between 500 and 1,000 unarmed people.
  • Autocracy

    Autocracy is a form of government where one man has complete control. Russia had an autocracy before the russian revolution when Alexander II was in charge.
  • WWI

    In 1914, world war one began.
  • Karl Marx

    He argued a 19th centurey that the workers of the world would one day overthrow the ruling class and share equally in society's wealth.
  • Women want equal rights.

    With the Russian Revolution taking place, woman want equal rights.
  • Communist Party

    The russian communist party was formed after the death of Vladmir Lenin.
  • Document D

    This belongs here because it was something that went on very commonly after world war I, and the war ended in this year. This shows totalitarianism because Stalin changed the sign.
  • White Army

    Any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.
  • Document H

    This makes sense to fit in this date, because the song is trying to get the Russian people fired up after such a terrible war.
  • Document J

    This is where Stalin lived during his rule, and the massive building shows true totalitarianism. Russia wasn't that wealthy, and yet he had a giant mansion while everyone else had close to nothing.
  • Russian Orthodox Church

    It actually started before the 10th century, but it was big during the 1920's.
  • New Economic Policy (NEP)

    Launched by Lenin in March, 1921, it was a small scale version of capitalism. It allowed peasants to sell their surplus crops instead of turning them over to the government.
  • Joseph Stalin

    He became the leader of Russia, and was in total command of the communist party.
  • USSR

    Russia was renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
  • Totalitarian

    It describes a government that takes total, centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life. Stalin was Russia's totalitarian leader.
  • 5 year plan

    This was the first 5 year plan for the economy of the USSR.
  • Document B

    Stalin is saying that Russia is getting beaten and beaten, so this would have to be after the many wars they had during Stalin's rule. 1928 is after this so it belongs here. This sounds like something Stalin would say, which is why it is a characteristic of totalitarianism.
  • Document A

    This document belongs here because this is when Joseh Stalin started his rule, and when he began to get these crazy ideas like the one where he says his people can't have ideas.
    This represents totalitarianism because he is giving an order to his people that they must obey.
  • Document C

    This image shows totalitarianism because it shows someone who was disappeared. This is what Stalin would do to people who he really hated. It belongs here because these were the years in which Stalin would do these thigns.
  • Document E

    This is when Joseph Stalin began his rule, so the laws of communism fit in here. Even though they were written in 1848, they were applied at this time.
  • Document I

    This was a poster most likely produced by Stalin to try and trick even more people in his country, and it shows his totalitariistic ways.
  • Document E

    Like the previous document about Karl Marx's beliefs, this one was also enforced by Stalin when he began rule. That is why it began here, and the direct quote is very similar to that of Stalin's.
  • Second 5 year plan

    This was the second plan for the USSR's economy
  • Great Purge

    Stalin turned against members of the communist party, and started a campaign of terror.
  • Document G

    This would be during Stalin's rule, but not at the beginning. He probably put this poster out to trick people that life was good in the USSR. This is an example of totalitarianism.
  • Document F

    This is something Stalin would put out, and it fits because it was during his rule.