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In 1917 a council of workers, called a __________, took over the city government of St. Petersburg and arrested the tsar's ministers.
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Like Western liberals, Russian revolutionary leaders such as __________ were eager to see parliamentary rule, religious freedom, and a host of legal changes.
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A second revolution in November 1917 brought the radical __________ wing of the Social Democratic Party to power under Lenin.
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The November seizure of power had created a Council of __________, drawn from soviets across the nation and headed by Lenin.
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Lenin shut down the Russian parliament, replacing it with a Bolshevik-dominated __________.
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A powerful new army was created in 1917 under the leadership of __________.
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Economic disarray was reduced in 1921 when Lenin issued his __________.
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A new constitution in 1923 set up a federal system in Russia called the __________.
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The Russian __________ had many of the trappings of a parliament and was elected by universal suffrage.
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Soviet revolutionary leaders actively encouraged communist parties in the West, and set up the __________, or Communist International office, to guide this process.
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__________ emerged as undisputed leader of the Soviet state after Lenin's death.
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__________ meant the creation of large, state-run farms rather than individual holdings as in the West.
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Under Stalin a system of __________ plans under the state planning commission began to set clear priorities for industrial development.
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The executive committee of the Communist Party or __________ became a mere rubber stamp during the Stalin era.
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The Soviet system attempted to create a distinctive art, __________, appropriate to the communist mission.
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The widespread exodus to West Germany from East Germany continued until the __________ was built in 1961.
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A challenge to communist rule came from Poland in the late 1970s in the form of an independent labor movement called __________.
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__________, exiled to the West because of his trilogy on Siberian prison camps, found the West too materialistic.
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In 1956 a new Soviet leader, __________, emerged from the committee pack to gain primary power.
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The first manned spacecraft, __________, was sent up in 1957, well in advance of the U.S. response.
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In 1985 a new, younger official named __________ renewed some of the earlier attacks on Stalinist rigidity.
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Gorbachev proclaimed a new policy of __________ or "openness," which implied new freedom to comment and criticism.
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The keynote of the reform program was __________, or economic restructuring.
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