Fast & Curious: Russian Revolution

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Soviets

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Russian councils of workers and soldiers.

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Revolution

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A sudden, radical, or complete change; an overthrow of a government.

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Aid

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assistance such as money or supplies

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Abdicated

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to formally give up control of a country or state

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War Communism

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In WWI Russia, government control of banks and industries, seizing grain from peasants, and centralization of state administration under Communist control.

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Communism

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A political theory from Karl Marx advocating class war, leading to a society where all property is publicly owned, and individuals work and are paid according to their abilities and needs.

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Autocracy

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A system of government by one person with absolute power.

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Serf

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Agricultural laborer bound to work on his lord's estate under feudalism.

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Duma

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A legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and some former Soviet republics.

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Bolshevik

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Member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, renamed the Communist Party after the October Revolution of 1917.