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.

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.

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

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 outpu

Gulag

• 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.

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

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U.S.S.R.

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. AKA... The Soviet Union

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

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

• United States of America

Czar/Tsar

• an emperor of Russia before 1917.

• the working class

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

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

Soviet

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

• A famine-genocide in the Ukraine that resulted in 2.4 million to 12 million deaths in 1932-1933.

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. AKA... The Soviet Union

• Belief that there is no God

Means of Production

• the facilities and resources for producing goods.

• rebel; someone who disagrees

• Russian Parliament; National legislature to make laws.

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