The Russian Revolution

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  1. 3. Peaceful protesters were gunned down by the czar's soldiers on this day in 1905 (two words).
  2. 5. The person whose views were followed by the group that would eventually succeed in establishing a new government in Russia (2 words).
  3. 8. Government control over every aspect of public and private life.
  4. 9. Became czar in 1894, and maintained the principle of autocracy just as his father Alexander III did (two words).
  5. 11. The process by which the government took over several small farms to create a large farm.
  6. 12. A temporary government that took power in February 1917 (two words).
  7. 16. Proposals, starting in 1928, aimed at building up Russia's heavy industry, improving transportation, and increasing farm output (three words).
  8. 17. Leader of the Bolsheviks and first ruler of the Soviet Union.
  9. 19. A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917.
  10. 20. One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of czar Nicholas II.
  11. 21. Revolutionary leader who took control of the Communist Party after Lenin died (two words).
Down
  1. 1. An economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions (two words).
  2. 2. A member of a class of wealthy Russian peasants.
  3. 4. Eccentric monk assassinated because of his corrupt influence on the Russian royal family.
  4. 6. Leader of the Red Army.
  5. 7. A rail line built between 1891 and 1904 to connect European Russia with Russian ports on the Pacific Ocean (two words).
  6. 10. By the mid-1930s, only the U.S., Great Britain, and Germany produced more steel than....
  7. 13. Artistic style that praised Soviet life and communist values (two words).
  8. 14. Lenin's way of easing the burdens imposed by War Communism and introducing elements of capitalism and competition (three words).
  9. 15. Arrest, exile, or killing of thousands of suspected enemies of the communist party (two words).
  10. 18. The Red Army's opponents.