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Lenin
Was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. "He served as head of government of the Russian Republic from 1917 to 1918, of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 to 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924"(Wikipedia.com) -
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Joseph Stalin
Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state. -
Industrialisation
Very little population around the country. They want people to move to the cities, therefore they brought forth the collectivisations. -
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Nikita Khrushchev
He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Was responsible for the de-Stalinisation of the Soviet Union. -
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Leonid Brezhnev
Former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. Didn't do much. -
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The Communist International (Comintern)
International communist organisation that advocated world communism. -
Democratic centralism
Democratic centralism is to combine two opposing forms of party leadership: democracy, which allows for free and open discussion, and central control, -
Purges
"Witch hunt." Not allowing people to speak out. Sending people to work camps, and killing people. -
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Collectivization
Collectivization was a policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms called “kolkhozes” as carried out by the Soviet government -
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Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. He declared that Russia is has become a democratic counrty -
Secret Speech
Khrushchev delivered a speech to a closed session of party leaders in which he tried to say opinions against Stalin and, over four hours, criticised almost every aspect of Stalin’s method of rule. -
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Perestroika
The restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system. -
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Perestroika
The restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system. And to improve all living conditions of citizens -
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Mikhail Gorbachev
He was the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union. Titled as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and as President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. -
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Glasnost
As "openness," refers to the Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues. -
"Shock Therapy"
Yeltsin announced that Russia would proceed with radical reforms, including market-oriented reform along the lines of "Shock Therapy" -
Issues of 1991
1991 to the present began with the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991, and the establishment of the Russian Federation. -
Democratisation of Russia
Russia declares to be a democratic, federative, law-based state with a republican form of government. State power is divided among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.