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A leader with unlimited power/authority Autocrats Define Czar A russian title meaning caesar or ruler A system in which all property and all means of production belong to people as a group Communism What does Stalins name mean? Man of Steel What is a secret Russian police? The Cheka A large farm on which people work together as a group Collectives What group felt that the peasants would rise up spontaneously and create a form of agrarian socialism after landowners had been elimated? The Social Revolutionaries Which group favored a limited monarchy with a parliament? The Constitutional Democrats What group based their beliefs on the writing of Karl Marx? The Social Democrats, or Maxists Marx was a German who published a document called ______________________________ The Communist Manifesto Who began the Social Democratic Party? Georgi Plekanov Who led the Bolsheviks? Lenin Who pleaded for a less violent revolution? The Mensheviks What is a Duma? A Russian Parliament, or legislature What did the first Duma consist of and who were the elective representatives? Consisted of Tsars, and elected representatives from the nobility, the church, trade, industry, and inversities What was the capital of Russia under czarist rule? St. Petersburg What is the capital of Russia now? Moscow What does U.S.S.R. stand for? Union of Soviet Socialist Republic When did the Russian Revolution begin and end? 1917-1921 What was the Russian Parliament called? The Duma Who ruled Russia for 8 months before Stalin? Alexander Kerensky Who was the czar of Russian in 1905? Czar Nicholas II Name one czar other than Peter the Great. Ivan The Terrible What happened on Bloody Sunday? When the people went straight to the czar, he shot into the crowd, killing many people. Who supposedly healed Czarina Alexandra’s son? Rasputin What were the people who followed Lenin called? Bolsheviks (majority) What were the Mensheviks? They were the minority, the group of people who liked the government, the Social Democratic Party. What is a command economy, and did the Russians have one? A command economy is when the government controls everything, and yes. Who promised the people, “Peace, Bread, and Land?” Lenin What formed under Lenin and became a world power under Stalin? Russia Who formed the Red Terror? Trotsky Why were people unhappy with the czars? The defeats their country had had in wars. What did the Communist of Manifesto written by Karl Marx do to the workers? Urged workers to overthrow the capitalists, the factory owners. Siberia was the region of land that stretched across __________ _______________. northern Asia.