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The February Revolution. The Orthodox Calendar that was still in use in Russia was about two weeks 'behind'.
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.
Provisional. The Provisional government didn't last long, mainly because Kerensky chose to keep Russia in the Great War.
Stalin. It took him till about 1927 to consolidate his position. Initially, he had to share power with Trotsky and Zinoviev. He proposed many five-year plans that actually set the Soviet Union back many years. He was the leader until his death in 1953.
Reds and Whites. The Reds were the Bolsheviks, the Whites were the opposers. The Reds, organized by Trotsky, won.
| 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.
| 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.
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 "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.
| 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.
| 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.
Nights that the sun hardly goes under.
| What creation made St Peterburg jeweler and designer Carl Faberge famous? | Russian History
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Eggs with precious stone.
| During the reign of Peter I Russia gained some Baltic territories from another European country. Which country lost these territories to Russia? | Russian Empire
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Sweden. Sweden was the leading Baltic power in the 17th century, but was greatly weakened by defeat in the Great Northern War of 1700-21. As a result of this, Sweden lost Livonia, Estonia, Ingria, Karelia and Finland to Russia.
| Under which ruler did Russia annex the Crimea, part of Poland, Western Ukraine and Byelorussia? | Russian Empire
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Catherine II (the Great).
| Russian attempts to dominate the Balkans led to a war with which country from 1827-29? | Russian Empire
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Turkey. Russian attempts to dominate the Balkans led to a war with Turkey. A peace treaty in 1829 gave Russia control over the mouth of the Danube, and also the right to protect Greece, who gained independence in 1830.
| The Crimean War lasted from 1853-56. Which powers did Russia fight during this war? | Russian Empire
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England, France, Turkey, Sardinia. The war arose from British and French mistrust of Russia's ambitions in the Balkans. It began with an allied Anglo-French attack on the Russian naval base at Sevastopol.
Alexander II. Alexander II was the tsar who emancipated the serfs in 1861. He was assassinated by an anarchistic terrorist group.
| Russian expansion in Manchuria caused a war with ______ in 1904-05? | Russian Empire
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Japan. Russia lost this war. The Japanese forced Port Arthur to capitulate. They also occupied Korea and advanced into Manchuria.
| Russo-Austrian rivalry was a major cause of outbreak of World War I. Russia fought in alliance with ______ and ______? | Russian Empire
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France and Britain. Of course World War I led to the fall of the Russian empire and the rise of the communism.
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