Hi 12 SW Russia Study Guide (cullen jan 2013) o Russian Revolution video: Lenin’s Russia to Civil War o Read Russian Revolution p. 27-48 in AWT and answer Week 3 questions or
Russian Revolution power point questions o Read and highlight notes comparing communism and fascism o Stalin The Red Terror video o Stalin’s Russia Week 4 AWT Questions or
Stalin’s Russia power point questions o Stalin chart o Who Killed Stalin documentary o Russia Crossword o Project #1 o Russia test (includes in class essay – bring 3 quotes to include in essay)
Russia Vocabulary
Russian Revolution : Lenin, Bolsheviks, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Karl Marx, Romanovs,War Communism,
Stolypin, Russian Civil War, Duma, Tsar Nicholas, Rasputin, soviet, Kerensky, Trotsky, General Kornilov,
Constituent Assembly, Mensheviks, Red Army, White Army, USSR, New Economic Policy, Cheka, Joseph
Stalin, Pravda,
Stalin’s Russia: Stalin, Ukrainian Famine, kulak, capitalism, capitalism, Treaty of Rapallo, Nazi-Soviet Pact,
Pravda, Great Purge, Leon Trotsky, industrial output, inflation, Kirov, Kamenev & Zinoviev, Show Trials,
Cheka, Five Year Plans, totalitarian, communism, collective, gulag, Comintern
Russia Concepts to Know
- reasons the Russian peasants, industrial workers and the middle class were unhappy under the Tsar's rule
- Peter Stolypin's land reforms and what happened to Stolypin
- concerns over Russia's involvement in World War 1
- the difference between Leninism and Marxism in regard to the role of the peasants and lower classes
- main points of 1917 March revolution
- decisions of early provisional government regarding WW1, land, and best type of government for Russia
- different beliefs of the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks regarding party membership
- how Germany assisted the Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917
- the meaning of Lenin’s slogan: Peace, Land, and Bread
- 2 major mistakes of the new provisional government regarding WW1 and the distribution of land
- the goal of General Kornilov towards the provisional government
- how Kornilov's actions benefitted Lenin and the Bolsheviks
- goal and result of the November Revolution
- Lenin's first two major decrees after taking power
- the reason Lenin disbanded the Constituent Assembly and the result of this action
- the main terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the reason these terms were later revoked
- the main supporters of the White Army in the Russian Civil War
- reasons that the Red Army was successful in the Civil War
- Trotsky's role in the Civil War
- summary of Lenin's war communism policies and how the Russian people felt about this move
- the terms of Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP)
- reason Stalin was well positioned to succeed Lenin as leader of Russia's Communist Party

- Lenin's concerns about Stalin and Trotsky as possible successors
- definition of totalitarianism
- compare fascism, communism and democracy with regard to basic freedoms and the role of the individual, power of the state, economic policies, distribution of wealth, role of the media, and legal systems
- different backgrounds of Stalin and Trotsky and the differing views they had about the spread of communism
- methods used by Stalin to deal with his rival Trotsky
- the goals and results of Stalin's First Five Year Plan (1928-32)
-the goal and results of Stalin’s Second Five Year Plan
- the goal and results of the collectivization movement for Soviet agriculture
- the resistance of the kulaks to collectivization and what happened to many former kulaks
- the event Stalin used to justify the show trials and Great Purge
- problems created by the purging of the Red Army before WW2
- terms of 1939 Soviet-German non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin
- the suspicious circumstances surrounding Stalin’s death
- motives for Beria, Khrushchev, Molotov, Vasily, and Svetlana as possible suspects in Stalin’s death