Module 26: Revolutionism and Nationalism

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

• Anarchists
• Socialists
• Bolsheviks
• Communists

workers

• team
• staff
• proletariat

• laborers

Founded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship. He led the October Revolution of 1917, in which the Communists seized power in Russia. He then ruled the country until his death in 1924.

• Joseph Stalin
• Karl Marx
• Leon Trotsky
• Vladimir Lenin

Russian peasant monk who was able to influence Russian politics by gaining the confidence of the Czarina

• Ivan the Terrible
• Grigori Rasputin
• Joseph Stalin
• Vladimir Lenin

A temporary government

• Eternal government
• Provisional government
• Transitional government
• Temp Gov

local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers

• Communes
• Collectives
• Assemblies
• Soviets

a political party that believes the government should control all production and distribution of goods and working people should control their own lives and destinies. Originally the Bolsheviks.

• Socialist Party
• Capitalist Party
• Anarchist Party
• Communist Party

Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition

• Vladimir Lenin
• Joseph Stalin
• Leon Trotsky
• Mikhail Gorbachev

A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

• Monarchy
• Anarchy
• Oligarchy
• Totalitarianism

The widespread arrests and executions of over a million people by Josef Stalin between 1936 and 1938. Stalin was attempting to eliminate all opposition to his rule of the Soviet Union.

• Monarchy
• Great Purge

• Anarchy
• Oligarchy