Russian Revolution Vocabulary

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Bolsheviks

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A revolutionary Marxist party led by Lenin that seized power in Russia in 1917.

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Great Purge

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Stalin accused thousands of people of crimes against the government, sending them to prison camps, exiling, or executing them (1936-1938).

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Collective

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Large farms owned and worked by peasants as a group

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Communism

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A political and economic theory advocating government control of production.

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Duma

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Russian Parliament; National legislature to make laws.

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Proletariat

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the working class

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Gulags

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Brutal forced labor camps by Stalin in Russia; millions died.

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N.E.P (New Economic Policy)

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Lenin's plan: govt. controls banks, large industry, foreign trade; allows small private businesses.

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Totalitarian

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One-party dictatorship regulating all aspects of citizens' lives.

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Atheism

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No God belief