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The February Revolution. The Orthodox Calendar that was still in use in Russia was about two weeks 'behind'.
| What was the "upper" class of peasants called who hated the term and the methods of collectivization? | The Russian Revolution
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Kulaks . Many of the Kulaks were sent to Siberia to work in labour camps! Others slaughtered the animals, ruined their farms and killed themselves so Stalin was left with nothing from these farms.
Stalin. His goal was to get the Soviet Union industrialized in five years. He tried to do in five years what took Western Europe and the United States over a century to accomplish.
| What was the specific term called for the combining of many farms for peasants to work on? | The Russian Revolution
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Collectivization. Wheat and other food surpluses fell under this plan and famine hit the Soviet Union.
| Who opposed Stalin early in his reign, and was then later exiled and finally murdered in 1940 in Mexico City? | The Russian Revolution
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Trotsky. He had an ice-pick driven through his skull. Bukharin was "purged" in 1938 following a show trial.
Reds and Whites. The Reds were the Bolsheviks, the Whites were the opposers. The Reds, organized by Trotsky, won.
| Who in the course of two or three years after Lenin's death in 1924 became leader of the USSR? | The Russian Revolution
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Stalin. It took him till about 1927 to consolidate his position. Initially, he had to share power with Trotsky and Zinoviev. He proposed the early five-year plans, with their emphasis on heavy industry. He was the leader until his death in 1953.
Provisional. The Provisional government didn't last long, mainly because Kerensky chose to keep Russia in the Great War.
Prince Lvov. Prince Lvov and later Kerensky headed the Provisional Government after the Tsar's abdication. Eight months later, Lenin succeeded with his famous October Revolution.
| What creation made St Peterburg jeweler and designer Carl Faberge famous? | Russian History
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Eggs with precious stone.
Nights that the sun hardly goes under.
| What does the Russian Orthodox Church mean by 'black clergy'? | Russian History
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Monks that have taken vows.. Ordinary parish Priests are called the white clergy.
| Who was the Russian moderate who wanted to restrict the effects of the Russian Revolution in 1917 to just 'Parliamentary Democracy'? | Russian History
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Prince Lvov. Prince Lvov was head of the Provisional Government that was born from the February revolution.(1861-1925.) He died in Paris. - Alexander Herzen was a political thinker, activist and writer who advocated an alternative of socialism, which he called 'peasant populism'. Count Orlov brought Catherine the Great to power.- Prince Trubeztkoy was one of the Dezembrists but did not turn up on the day of the planned rebellion.
| Kokand, Khiva and Bukhara are three khanates that were colonized by the Russians 1866-76. These khanates are now mainly situated in one independent republic. What is its name? | Russian Empire
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Uzbekistan. Khiva and Bukhara were made vassal khanates. Kokand was the last Central Asian khanate to be conquered by Russia 1875-76. Also the Turkmen nomads and the Tajik ang Kirghiz mountaineers were subdued.
| In 1860 Russian expansion led them to the Pacific Ocean. They founded a city which was to be the end station of the Trans-Siberian railway. What is the name of the city? | Russian Empire
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| After this war Japan also gained the south of an island which in Japanese is called Karafuto. What is the present Russian name of this island? | Russian Empire
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| Russia controlled a Chinese seaport which they lost to Japan during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. What was the name of the port? | Russian Empire
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| As a result of treaties with China in 1858-60, Russia annexed a former Chinese region. What region? | Russian Empire
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Amur Province. Treaties imposed on China 1858 and 1860 led to Russian annexation of the Amur Province north of the Amur river and west of the Ussuri river.
| Russia fought a war from 1856-64 and finally gained control of the northern part of this region. What region was this? | Russian Empire
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Caucasus. The Caucasian War completed the annexation of northern Caucasus. Russia had already gained control of southern Caucasus - Georgia, Dagestan and most of Armenia - during the two Russo-Iranian wars 1801-28.
| During the Congress of Berlin in 1878 after the Russo-Turkish war, Russia gained some territories, among them Kars in Armenia and ________? | Russian Empire
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