Russian Revolution Vocabulary

Bolsheviks

• A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917.

• also known as the White Armies; led by former officers of the Tsarist state

• the working class

• Brutal forced labor camps set up by Stalin in Russia. Dissidents were sent to the camps, Millions died.

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Great Purge

• Stalin accused thousands of people of crimes against the government and sent them to prison camps, exiled them or executed them from around 1936 to 1938.

• a political and economic theory or belief that the means of production should be controlled by the government.

• The people, especially the political and military leaders of the U.S.S.R.

• Form of government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of the lives of its citizens

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Collective

• Large farms owned and worked by peasants as a group

• an emperor of Russia before 1917.

• Stalin's nationalist policy to promote Russia's history, language and culture and forbid other cultures and religions.

• Brutal forced labor camps set up by Stalin in Russia. Dissidents were sent to the camps, Millions died.

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Communism

• a political and economic theory or belief that the means of production should be controlled by the government.

• Belief that there is no God

• Stalin's economic policy to build industry and increase farm output

• Russian Parliament; National legislature to make laws.

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Duma

• Russian Parliament; National legislature to make laws.

• Brutal forced labor camps set up by Stalin in Russia. Dissidents were sent to the camps, Millions died.

• British Parliament; House of Commons and House of Lords

• the working class

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Proletariat

• the working class

• Form of government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of the lives of its citizens

• Russian Parliament; National legislature to make laws.

• Stalin's economic policy to build industry and increase farm output

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Gulags

• Brutal forced labor camps set up by Stalin in Russia. Dissidents were sent to the camps, Millions died.

• Large farms owned and worked by peasants as a group

• rebel; someone who disagrees

• Stalin's nationalist policy to promote Russia's history, language and culture and forbid other cultures and religions.

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N.E.P (New Economic Policy)

• Lenin's economic plan- keep banks, large industry and foreign trade under govt. control but allow small privately owned businesses.

• Stalin's nationalist policy to promote Russia's history, language and culture and forbid other cultures and religions.

• Form of government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of the lives of its citizens

• Stalin's economic policy to build industry and increase farm output by setting goals to be reached in certain periods of time.

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Totalitarian

• Form of government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of the lives of its citizens

• rebel; someone who disagrees

• Large farms owned and worked by peasants as a group

• rebel; someone who disagrees

Atheism

• Belief that there is no God
• Russian Parliament; National legislature to make laws.
• Form of government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of the lives of its citizens
• A famine-genocide in the Ukraine that resulted in 2.4 million to 12 million deaths in 1932-1933.