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Geiger chapter 15
chapter 15 vocabulary
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History
9th Grade
12/14/2012

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totalitarian state
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A government that regulates every aspect of its citizens lives
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Great Purge
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Stalin's reighn of terror
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kulak
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wealthy peasent
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Red Gaurd
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Group that helped over throw the provisional government
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Soviets
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name given to the councils of workers and soldiers that set up a provisional government
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Osip Mandelstam
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A Jewish poet persecuted by the communist for critizing Stalin
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command economy
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economy in which government officials make all basic economic decisions
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Whites
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Group that remained loyal to the czar
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collective
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large farm owned and operated by peasents as a group
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Cheka
Definition
the communist secret police
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atheism
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the beleif that there is no god.
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competition
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the rivalry among producers or sellers of similar products to win more business
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private property
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Whatever is owned by individals or groups rather thahe governmentn by t
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profit
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The mney left over after all costs of productin have been paid
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economic grwth
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the expansion of the economy by producing more goods and services in the long term
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