This man declared “not one step back!” to motivate troops fighting on the Volga River.

His foreign minister signed a non-aggression pact with Joachim von Ribbentrop, but joined the Allies after Germany invaded his country in 1941. name this Soviet dictator who succeeded Vladimir Lenin.

After many of his party members voted negatively of his leadership at the 17th Central Committee, this leader pointed an unloaded Mosin-Nagant rifle at the crowd.

Robert Conquest’s book Harvest of Sorrow details event promulgated by this leader.

This man’s agricultural advisor did not believe in Mendelian genetics and claimed that offspring could inherit vernalization.

Thousands of people died during this man’s construction of a White Sea Canal, and this man’s secret police were led by Lavrenti Beria.

This person's name was formerly used for the capital of Tajikistan, now known as Dushanbe (doo-SHAHN-bay), and for the mountain now called Ismail Samani (suh-MAH-nee) Peak, which was called "Communism Peak" after his death. identify this former namesake of Volgograd, where a major World War II battle was fought in the Soviet Union.

In a musical named for this dance, Judge Forestier (pr. for-ess-TEER) finally concludes that "It's All Right With Me." That Cole Porter musical discusses the scandal that this dance, which is in 2/4 time and based on the quadrille (pr. kwah-DREEL), caused when it was introduced to Paris in 1858.

This leader employed Nikolai Yezhov as the head of a secret police force and approved Lavrentiy Beria’s plan to kill thousands of dissidents in what is now called the Katyn massacre.

This man was spotted laughing at the romantic scenes between Sergei and Katerina and shuddering in disgust at loud orchestra hits during a performance of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

One famous action by this leader was instigated by a remark from Filipino diplomat Lorenzo Sumulong criticizing his country.

This leader’s decision to raise the price of meat and butter resulted in the Novocherkassk Massacre.

This was the Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He participated in the impromptu "Kitchen Debate" with Richard Nixon, and his tenure saw a temporary "thaw" in Cold War tensions.

That tour occurred a few months after he debated the vice president in a model kitchen at the American National Exhibition.

Answer the following about a period in Soviet history, :This man was the Soviet leader following Stalin, and held the Kitchen Debate with Nixon.

This leader, who launched the failed Virgin Lands Campaign, left the Four Powers Summit after only a day due to tensions over the U-2 incident.

Towards the beginning of this man’s political career, he served as the assistant director for a mine in the Donbas region, where he had earlier been a worker.

This leader was opposed by the Anti-Party Group, who disagreed with his “peaceful coexistence” philosophy and preferred his predecessor.

This man defended his ideology to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by saying “The wart is there, and I can’t do anything about it.” This person claimed that the Empire State Building looked like any other skyscraper and asked “Is there an epidemic of cholera or plague?” in Disneyland after his planned trip to the park was canceled due to security concerns.

In one speech, this man noted that “Tito did not fall” because he “had behind him a state” and “a people who gave support to its leaders;” that speech triggered four days of rioting in Tbilisi.

A minister under this man who strongly opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia was Alexei Kosygin.

Viktor Ilyin tried to assassinate this man by shooting him during a celebratory motorcade of cosmonauts, an attack that the KGB tried to keep secret from the West.

Cosmonauts from the Soyuz 4 and 5 missions were injured while riding in a motorcade with this politician during an assassination attempt by army deserter Viktor Ilyin.

This leader gave himself the Order of Victory Medal, the only one awarded after World War II, which was posthumously revoked.

This leader joined Jimmy Carter in signing the SALT II accords.

A common Russian joke went, “Stalin proved that just one person could manage the country. [This man] proved that a country doesn’t need to be managed at all.” :Name this long-ruling Soviet leader who sent tanks to quash reforms undertaken by Alexander Dubček.

Gorbachev denounced the legacy of this earlier Soviet leader, who had clamped down on liberalizing reforms. Head of the country throughout the entire 1970’s, he sent Soviet troops into both Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan.

This leader promised that one of his projects would be constructed “with clean hands only!” :Name this leader whose propaganda used phrases like “project of the century” and “path to the future” to promote that project, the BAM railway.

Swan Lake was also broadcasted on state television following the death of this other Soviet leader in 1982. This successor of Khrushchev established a namesake doctrine to justify the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.

In 1979, the USSR invaded Afghanistan under the leadership of this bushy-eye browed premier whose namesake “Doctrine” led to the invasion of Czechoslovakia to quell the Prague Spring.

This ruler established the first publicly funded higher-education institution for women, the Smolny Institute.

This ruler formulated a law code known as the Nakaz.

Pugachev’s Rebellion targeted this woman, whose lovers included Grigory Orlov and Grigory Potemkin. name this longest serving Russian empress.

This leader’s threat to intervene in the War of the Bavarian Succession led to the signing of the Treaty of Teschen.

Besides King Stanisław Poniatowski, this ruler was also courted by Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov and a man who died negotiating the Treaty of Jassy with the Ottomans.

This monarch signed the Treaty of Jassy [[YAH-see]] with the Ottoman Empire, which was negotiated by the founder of Sevastopol and the Black Sea Fleet, Grigori Potemkin.

This ruler’s forces were victorious at Kozludzha, allowing for an annexation of the Crimea in the Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji.

This ruler was given a large diamond from Golconda, India, called the Orlov.

This ruler annexed the lands of the Crimean Khanate with the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji.

This ruler signed the Treaty of Kucuk-Kaynarca following the Battle of Chesme, and later confined all Jewish subjects to the Pale of Settlement.

He called the first Zemsky Sobor, and he had his private army of Oprichniks harass the boyars.

This ruler accused Archbishop Pimen of treason, which later caused him to commit a certain military action.

16th century Russian Tsar famous for killing and torturing many of his subjects, including his own son and heir.

With the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this man agreed to the Truce of Yam-Zapolsky to help end the Livonian War.

This man began his country’s trade with England after allowing Richard Chancellor to create the Muscovy Company.

This ruler pretended to abdicate for a year in favor of Simeon Bekbulatovich as part of a political ploy to seize the assets of his country’s monasteries.

Richard Chancellor established relations between this ruler and England by sailing through the White Sea to Archangel.

This man led his country to defeat in the Livonian War. :Name this first tsar of Russia, who descended into madness towards the end of his life and fatally wounded his son with a staff.

During his reign, a military campaign to retake western Slavic lands in the Livonian War ended badly.

He created a secret police called the Oprichniki and he created the first “assembly of the land,” the Zemskii Sobor.

This ruler, who proposed the Hague Peace Conference, was almost killed by Tsuda Sanzo while traveling in Otsu, Japan.

This ruler, whose Imperial Guard committed the Bloody Sunday massacre, was overthrown by the February Revolution.

Father Gapon organized a march on this ruler ‟s Winter Palace, where his Imperial Guard killed roughly 1,000 people on Bloody Sunday.

Name these things about the period of the Russian Revolution, :This last Russian czar was shot and killed with his family and remaining servants on .

Answer these questions about the Russian Revolution of 1905, .The revolution occurred during the reign of this final Tsar of the Russian Empire.

This ruler approached his cousin of the same name to force him to become dictator, though that Grand Duke responded by pointing a pistol at his own head and threatening to fire.

This man received notice that Leonid Sednev would be leaving his entourage shortly before he was moved into the basement of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg.

During the disposal of this man’s body, his assassins drove a Fiat truck into the Koptyaki forest only to realize they had only one shovel.

This ruler’s prime minister Peter Stolypin invoked the Fundamental Laws to dissolve disagreeable sessions of parliament.

This man lost popularity after his forces opened fire on Father Gapon’s supporters outside the Winter Palace.

This tsar ruled Russia during the Napoleonic Wars and was also the first Russian king of Poland. He attempted a series of reforms, which he later revoked himself.

During this figure's rule, his nation acquired the territory of Karabakh under the Treat of Gulistan.

Pushkin called this person who died mysteriously "the Sphinx who took his riddle with him to the grave." This man rose to power after his father was murdered in a conspiracy in which the British government may have played a part.

After this man's advisor tried to reorganize the Masonic order, Mikhail Speranksy was made a scapegoat and tried with others including Fyodor Rostopchin.

This ruler’s army inspector designed an artillery improvement in the “System of 1805” and notoriously ordered all cats to be hanged.

This leader’s failures as commander in chief led him to appoint Mikhail Kutuzov to lead his army.

This tsar’s forces were commanded by Levin August von Bennigsen at the Battle of Eylau.

The State Council was created by this man, who created the category of Free Agriculturalists.

A close confidant of this tsar was a liberal reformer named Mikhail Speransky.

Besides Mikhail Speransky, his other advisors included Aleksey Arakcheyev, and the mystic Barbara Juliane von Krüdener, who probably influenced him into forming the Holy Alliance with other European monarchs.

One Scottish king of this name and number signed the Treaty of York after supporting the barons against King John.

The Black Repartition party was a faction of the early Land and Liberty secret society that formed in opposition to this ruler.

This man's country expanded eastward by signing the Treaty of Aigun.

Answer the following about being a Russian peasant. :Russian peasants were given freedom after this liberator tsar signed the Emancipation Act of 1861 that abolished serfdom.

This ruler replaced the Third Department with a secret police force called the Okhrana which was headed by his interior minister Loris Melikof.

This ruler banned the use of the Ukranian language with the Ems Ukaz and banned Polish after he put down the January Uprising.

This monarch spurned his wife Marie of Hesse and entered a morganatic marriage with his mistress Catherine Dolgorukov.

He employed Dmitri Milyutin to open army recruitment to all social classes, and he encouraged the new zemstvo system of local government.

Dmitry Milyutin reformed the military while serving this tsar, whose most impactful reform established the zemstvo system.

He put down the January Uprising in Poland and created a pair of legislative commissions by signing the Loris-Melikov Constitution.

This man was dispatched to Finland Station in a "sealed train" by mischievous Germans, who believed that his presence would unsettle his home country.

Disgruntled socialist Fanny Kaplan successfully shot and injured this man after he gave a speech at an arms factory.

The German Empire intentionally let this man and 32 supporters travel in a protected train to the Finland Station.

A political pamphlet by this man encouraged the establishment of a vanguard to spread his ideology among the masses.

This man founded the newspaper The Spark for his political party.

This man's spouse Nadezhda [[nah-des-DAH]] edited the newspaper Iskra and fronted the Central Committee while in exile in France.

This man, who developed the concept of democratic centralism to keep party unity, split with Julius Martov over disagreements about the role of the professional revolutionary.

He argued that countries would fight until the rise of socialist governments in the work Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

This editor of the newspaper Iskra wrote about the “burning questions of our movement” in a pamphlet titled What Is to Be Done?

This Marxist philosopher outlined his namesake philosophy in books such as The State and Revolution and Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

This man’s sister, Sophia, led the Streltsy Uprising against him. :Name this modernizing tsar who built a “window to the west” on the Neva River.

In his youth, this ruler practiced war games with his “toy army.” This ruler established the Most Holy Synod and quashed the Bulavin Rebellion against his rule.

This man’s regent, Sophia Alekseyevna, listened to his meetings through a hole in his throne and led a revolt that forced this leader to disband the Streltsy.

This ruler ignited a rebellion after appointing Yuri Dolgoruki to round up fugitive peasants in lands led by Kondraty Bulavin.

Russian tsar who fought the Pruth River Campaign against the Ottomans.

This man's reign was followed by the so-called "half-tsar," Alexander Menshikov, who dominated the reign of Catherine I. His tall stature and thick accent led to this tsar being easily recognized during his incognito "Grand Embassy" of Europe.

This ruler established a museum with a name meaning “art chamber” to maintain the memory of “natural and human curiosities.” The kunstkamera was built by this man along a river that also features a statue of this ruler that was built on top of the Thunder Stone.

As a child, this man had a “toy army” consisting of playmates who eventually became the core of his Imperial Guard.

This ruler stayed with Gerrit Kist during his stay in Zaandam.

During this man’s reign, his forces broke a blockade of the Hanko Peninsula in the Battle of Gangut, his country’s first naval victory.

This leader controversially replaced Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko (groh-MEE-koh) with Eduard Shevardnadze (shev-ard-NOD-zay).

This man once worked with Alexander Lebedev in an attempt to establish a political party, and this non-American leader signed the INF treaty.

This man was nicknamed the “mineral water drinking” secretary after taxing and restricting the sale of alcohol.

This leader passed the Law of Cooperatives, allowing private enterprises to be established, and adopted a policy of non-intervention that became known as the Sinatra doctrine.

This leader’s dismissal of a Kazakh leader led to the Jeltoqsan student protests.

If there was ever a sign that the Cold War had ended, it was the fact that this General Secretary of the USSR starred in a now infamous Pizza Hut commercial.

One advisor of this man, Gennadi Gerasimov, stated that “every country decides on its own which road to take”, which eventually became known as the Sinatra Doctrine for the Frank Sinatra song “My Way”.

Over two million people protesting this leader’s rule over their countries formed a human chain from Vilnius to Riga to Talin.

This leader encouraged small-scale private ownership with his Law on Cooperatives and urged economic acceleration with his slogan uskoreniye.

Both of this man’s grandfathers were arrested during the Great Purge of 1937, leading to this man’s support of the anti-Stalinist reforms of Nikita Kruschev while serving as First Secretary in Stavropol.

This man coined the name "scissors crisis" during the period of the New Economic Policy.

Before being exiled to Mexico, this rival of Stalin and reformer of the Red Army spent much of 1928 in exile in Kazakhstan.

In the book Results and Prospects, this man claimed that the bourgeoisie would re- assert itself if given any opportunity, formulating his theory of "Permanent Revolution." After being outmaneuvered by a rival following the death of one ally, this man founded the Fourth International to oppose the Comintern.

Answer the following about a noted political leader, :Assassinated outside of Mexico City in 1940, this leader of the Revolution split with Stalin after Lenin’s death and was eventually expelled from the politburo.

This man founded the movement named Fourth International, and he was the leader of the Soviet delegation for the negotiations of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

Mauritz Hallgren publicly resigned from a committee supporting this person, which was headed by John Dewey.

This man attempted to return to his homeland via the Norwegian liner SS Kristianiafjord [[kris-TYA-nya-fyord]], but was captured by the British who put him in an internment camp.

He also created the term "degenerated workers state" to summarize his views on what the Soviet Union became following his deposition as head of the Red Army.

In an article in Pravda, this man and his supporters were depicted as analogous to the German Gestapo, and he was the subject of a Moscow Show trial that sentenced him to death in 1936.

Before heading to France, this man lived on a Turkish island for four years under the surveillance of Ataturk’s police.

Oguz-Bashi mountain was renamed for this man, who left Taoiseach [[TEE-shuk]] Albert Reynolds embarrassed after he appeared drunk at Shannon Airport.

While visiting Germany, this man once got so drunk that he started conducting a A celebratory band and blowing kisses to the crowd.

This man’s “shock therapy” was denounced by Alexander Rutskoy, who briefly replaced this man after parliament dissolved in 1993.

Bill Clinton claims that, in 1995, this foreign leader was found on the streets of D.C. calling for pizza while drunk.

Yegor Ligachev’s insults prompted this man to write a resignation letter; well after, Ligachev famously noted that this man “was wrong.” In an attempt to avoid enriching his country’s mafia and bureaucrats, this leader implemented a voucher system to sell state-run enterprises, but most people sold their vouchers off.

The chair of Sibneft was recognized as one of the “Seven Bankers” who supported this person after this person implemented the loans-for-shares scheme.

Acting Prime Minister Gaidar pursued an economic policy of “shock therapy” during his tenure, and this leader gave the black box of KAL Flight 007 to Roh Tae-Woo.

This man signed the Belavezha Accords as one of his first acts in office, and he apologized for Korean Airlines Flight 007 after meeting with South Korean President Roh Tae-Woo.

"Circling over Shannon" became a euphuism for inebriation in Ireland following an incident where this politician's drunkenness led to his failure to meet with Prime Minister Albert Reynolds.

This figure put down the Communist August Coup perpetrated by the Gang of Eight, while his economic liberalization led to the rise of the oligarchs like Mikhail Friedman.

This man’s wife, Polina Zhemchuzhina [zhem-SHOO-zhee-na], the onetime Soviet Minister of Fisheries, was sent into “internal exile” largely due to her Jewish faith.

A “troika” of Malenkov, Beria, and this minister took over immediately after the death of Joseph Stalin.

Following his inclusion in the “Anti-Party Group,” he became a delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency and ambassador to Mongolia.

Finnish troops in the Winter War developed a makeshift anti-tank weapon named for this man, the Soviet foreign minister.

During World War One, the Czarist regime arrested this man for revolutionary activity and exiled him to Siberia.

A line of defense named for this man stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Carpathians.

Name these things about Alexander Scriabin’s uncle, Vyacheslav Scriabin, FTP each:Vyacheslav was initially better known by this surname for his two-times as foreign minister, the primary one being from 1939-49. Soldiers of the Finnish army mockingly named a makeshift bomb made of a breakable container filled with flammable liquid and ignited with a rag wick after him.

This man had the nickname “Stone Arse,” although he liked to note a more accurate nickname was “Iron Arse.” This man’s pilot, Endel Puusepp, was honored for a dangerous flight transporting this man to Washington D.C. His Jewish wife, Polina, was put in a labor camp on suspicion of treason, but was later freed after the leader this man worked for died.

He was almost purged along with Anastas Mikoyan before Stalin’s death, and his name means “hammer.” :Name this member of the post-Stalin troika who signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop. Finnish troops named some “bread baskets” and “cocktails” after him.

One accusation of treason against this man rested on him possibly owning his own railroad car, and he cast an abstaining vote when his Jewish wife Polina Zemchuzhina was accused of treason.