National Study: Russia - Terminology

a relationship or agreement between two countries, social classes, etc

• Capitalism

• Collectivisation

• Alliance

• Socialism

to take territory illegally

• Collectivisation

• Annex

• Pogrom

• Revolution

Communist Party members who worked full-time for the Party; were appointed by, or with approval of, Stalin

• Bourgeoisie

• Comintern

• Duma

• Apparat

a political system which is based on people being subject to authority rather than having individual freedom

• Authoritarianism

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Socialism

absolute rule or government by one person

• Bureaucracy

• Autocracy

• Egalitarianism

• Totalitarianism

the middle class which lives off the profits from ownership of capital, industrial, commercial or landed property

• Comintern

• Kulak

• Bourgeoisie

• Proletariat

the body of government officials; the public/civil service

• Autocracy

• Politburo

• Comintern

• Bureaucracy

an economic system that encourages individuals to make profits through investments and the private ownership of goods, property and the means of production, distribution and exchange

• Captalism

• Communism

• Marxism

• Socialism

the socialist policy of joining together small farms and other enterprises under group or state ownership

• Egalitarianism

• Collectivisation

• Industrialisation

• Urbanisation

An international organisation of communist parties founded by Lenin in 1919

• Bureaucracy

• Politburo

• Comintern

• Duma