Russian Revolution Vocab

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Russian Councils of workers and soldiers

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Soviets

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Overthrow of government by the people

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Revolution

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Assistance like money or supplies

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Aid

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Give up control of a country or state

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Abdicate

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Political system where the government controls banks and most industries

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Communism

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Russian working class: manual laborers

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Proletariat

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Members of the Radical Revolutionary groups led by Lenin

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Bolsheviks

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Russian peasants and poor farmers

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Kulaks

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Russian prison camps for political prisoners

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Gulags

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Name of the violent revolution in Russia (1917)

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October Revolution