Learn: Russian Revolution

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Russian term for ruler or king; emperor?

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Tsar

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Founded the Communist Party in Russia, led the 1917 October Revolution, and ruled until 1924.

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Lenin

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Russian Parliament; Nicholas II's attempt to pacify citizens; briefly in control after the first Russian Revolution.

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Duma

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Revolutionary Russian Marxists led by Lenin who seized control in Nov 1917; comprised of the working class.

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Bolsheviks

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Political and economic system where government controls power, land, and industry; based on Marx's idea to end private ownership for workers.

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Communism

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Council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917

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Soviet

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Economic system where the government controls the economy.

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Command economy

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A large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small family farms

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Collective farming

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Form of government with absolute control

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totalitarian

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Last tsar of Russia, he went to the frontlines in WWI and abdicated during the FIRST Russian Revolution (March 1917).

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Nicholas II