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Russo-Japanese War
Russia loses war. Big upset. (1904/05) -
March Revolution
Tsar abdicates as result -
Provisional Government
Set up after the Czar abdicated -
April Thesis
Lenin reads thesis condeming Provisional Government, recognizing Bolsheviks and outlining party tasks -
Kornilov Affair
Coup d'était by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, General Kornilov, against the Russian Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky -
Civil War
Fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army. Ended in 1922 -
Bolshevik Revolution (October Revolution)
Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the workers' Soviets, overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
A Peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey), which ended Russia's participation in World War I -
War Communism
Economic and political system that existed in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921 with the goal of keeping towns and the Red Army stocked with weapons and with food -
League of Nations
Intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace (1919-1946) -
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Complete nationalization of industry, established during the period of War Communism, allowed private individuals to own small enterprises -
Treaty of Rapallo
Agreement signed between Germany and Russia under which each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and World War I -
Five Year Plans
Dealt with all aspects of development. First plan encompassed policy of collectivization (1928-1933). Second Plan focused on heavy industries (railways, communications, etc.) (1933-1937) Third Plan put resources into developing armaments, tanks and weapons, as well as constructing additional military factories (1938-1941) -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
International agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve conflicts or disputes -
The Purges
Involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants and the Red Army leadership, and widespread police surveillance, suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions. (1934-1939) -
Nazi-Soviet Pact (Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact)
The pact was a guarantee of non-belligerence by either party (Germany and Soviet Union) towards the other, and a commitment that neither party would ally with or aid an enemy of the other party.
