Revolution in Russia Study Guide

Proletariat

• A system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions

• Working class

• Communist party official assigned to the army to teach party principles

• Council of Workers set up by Russian revolutionaries

Soviet

•  A system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions

• Communist party official assigned to the army to teach party principles

• Council of Workers set up by Russian revolutionaries

•  Large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group

Commissar

• Communist party official assigned to the army to teach party principles

• Large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group

• A system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions

• Art style that promotes socialism by showing Soviet life positively

Command Economy

• Government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of life

• Large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group

•  Comfortable peasant in the Soviet Union in the 1930s

• A system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions

Kulak

• Art style that promotes socialism by showing Soviet life positively

• Comfortable peasant in the Soviet Union in the 1930s

• Government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of life

• Belief that there is no God

Totalitarian State

• A system where the government has limited control over personal freedoms.
• A political system that promotes individual liberties and democracy.
• A form of government that allows multiple political parties to operate freely.
• Government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of life

• Atheism

• Atheism is the belief in multiple gods.
• Atheism is the rejection of all religions.
• Atheism is the belief that God exists.
• Belief that there is no God

Socialist Realism

• Art style that critiques capitalism by depicting poverty.
• Art movement focused on abstract expressionism and individualism.
• Art style that promotes socialism by showing Soviet life positively

• Art style that promotes Western ideals through realism.

Last Russian Czar

• Nicolas II

• Ivan IV
• Peter the Great
• Alexander III

Who fought who during the Russian Civil War

• Red and whites

• The Red Army fought the Green Army.
• The Red Army fought the Blue Army.
• The White Army fought the Black Army.