Russian Revolution Vocabulary

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Bolsheviks

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

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Communism

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

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Duma

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Russian Parliament; National legislature to make laws.

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Proletariat

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the working class

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Gulag

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

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Totalitarian

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

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U.S.S.R.

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

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Czar/Tsar

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an emperor of Russia before 1917.

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Soviet

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

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Means of Production

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the facilities and resources for producing goods.