Russian Revolution Key Terms

Russian socialists in power in Russia after the revolution in 1917

• Bolsheviks

• Boxers

• Minutemen

• X-men

government in which a king, queen, or emperor exercises unlimited powers of government

• absolute monarch

• Soviet

• Dynasty

• Proletariat

information used to spread a doctrine or opinion through allegations, usually from a particular country's or political party's point of view or purposes

• Proletariat

• Propaganda

• Communism

• Command Economy

an economic system providing free choice and individual incentive for workers, investors, consumers, and business enterprises

• Communism

• Command Economy

• Capitalism

• Totalitarian

an economic system in which an authority, such as the government, answers the basic economic questions of "what," "how," and "for whom" items should be produced

• Command Economy

• Marxism

• Capitalism

• Czar

a political and economic theory in which factors of production are collectively owned

• Soviet

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Marxism

exercising dictatorial (authoritarian) power by government over nearly every aspect of human life

• Absolute monarch

• Totalitarian

• Marxism

• Dynasty

a Russian ruler

• Marxist

• Czar

• Proletariat

• Dynasty

series of rulers from the same family

• Dynasty

• Proletariat

• Czar

• Bolsheviks

a type of socialism where all the factors of production would be owned by the people, workers would share profits, and all would be economically equal

• Marxism

• Bolsheviks

• Proletariat

• Soviet