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Communism in Russia/ Roots of Liberalism (352-357)
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White Russians
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The ones who opposed the Communists
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Red Russians
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The Communist supporters
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Central Committee
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The Communist Party in Russia and its ruling elite
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Third International
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A terrorist organization dedicated to inciting Communist revolution and establishing a worldwide Communist state
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War Communism
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An economic policy which attempted to centralize all of Russia's economic assets under the Communist Party
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New Economic Policy
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A temporary retreat from Communism to allow the Russian economy to recover
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USSR or Soviet Union
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Brought all of the non-Russian nationalities under one centralized Communist regime
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Joseph Stalin
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Defeated Leon Trotsky after Lenin's death and became master of the Soviet Union
One of the most brutal rulers of all time
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Five-Year Plan
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A policy which aimed to transform the Soviet Union from a backward agrarian country into an industrial and military superpower
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Collectivized
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The small, private farms were banded together into large collective farms supervised by appointed managers
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Ukraine
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Hit the hardest by Stalin's man-made famine
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10 Million
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Number of people who died in Stalin's forced collectivization of Russian agriculture
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7 Million
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Number of people who died under Lenin's War Communism
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Great Purge
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Stalin's reign of terror that rooted out anyone who posed even the slightest threat to his authority
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The Gulag Archipelago
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's documentation of Stalin's crimes and terror
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