The Key Terms will be part of the midterm and final exams in the course. You should study these terms using your textbook, but you are also encouraged to use any other sources, such as Wikipedia. A good answer to a test identification of a key term should include answers to these basic questions: who, what, where, when and why important. It is especially important to focus on why the key term is important. Check out some examples.
Unit 1 Introduction and Themes in Russian history
- Slavs
- Scythians
Unit 2 Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II
- Alexander III
- Nicholas II
- Konstantin Pobedonostsev
- Sergei Witte
Unit 3 A Silver Age of Russian Culture
- Anton Chekhov
- Maksim Gorkii
- Silver Age
- Moscow Art Theatre
- Bolsheviks
- Lenin
- What Is to Be Done?
- Imperialism
- Russo-Japanese War
- Bloody Sunday
- October Manifesto
- Petr Stolypin
- Rasputin
- Progressive Bloc
- War Communism
- Cheka
- Trotsky
- Aleksandr Kerenskii
- New Economic Policy
- Nikolai Bukharin
- Stalin
- Kronstadt Rebellion
- Stalinism
- Five-Year Plan
- Great Purge and Show Trials
- Collectivization
- Molotov
- Blitzkrieg
- Stalingrad
- Red Army
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- Korean War
- 1956 Hungary
- 1968 Prague Spring
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1980 Solidarity
- Nikita Khrushchev
- De-Stalinization
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Glasnost'
- Perestroika
- Boris Yeltsin
- Chechnya
- Vladimir Putin
- Dmitrii Medvedev
Unit 15 Whither Russia in the Twenty-First Century?
- Modernization
- Vertical power
Unit 16 A New Russian Culture?
- Russian patriarch Alexis II