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Russian Revolution
Life Under Communism
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03/24/2005

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Terror
Definition
Violence commited or threatened by a group intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.
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Totalitarianism
Definition
The goverment exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspecrs of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed.
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Authoritarianism
Definition
A goverment that does not believe in individual freedom, but insists on the individual's absolute obedience to the goverment.
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Lenin
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The Russian founder of the Bolsheviks, leader of the Russian Revolution and the first head of the Soviet Union.
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Communism
Definition
A system of goverment in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarianism party holds power, daiming to make progress towards a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
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Bourgeoisie
Definition
The Marxist term for industrial workers.
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Vash The Stameped's Most Famous Quote
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"Love & Peace!"
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Proletariat
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The Marxist term for imdustrial workers.
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Nationalism
Definition
The convert imdustry from private to goverment ownership and control.
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One-Party System
Definition
When all political parties are outlawed, except the ruling party.
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"The end justifies the mean."
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If your goal is worthwhile, then it is okay to use terror to achieve your goal.
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"Enemy of the State"
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What Lenin called those who opposed the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Cheka
Definition
The communist secret police, founded by Lenin.
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Gulag
Definition
A network of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union, especially for political dissidents.
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Commissar
Definition
An official of the Communist Party in charge of political indoctrination and the enforcement of party loyalty.
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Censorship
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When the goverment prevents something from being printed in a newspaper, written in a book, or broadcast in the media.
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Pravda
Definition
The communist party's official newspaper in Russia.
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The New Economic Policy(NEP)
Definition
In 1921, Lenin loosened goverment control on the economy. He allowed peasants to privately sell some of their surplus produce and returned many small factories to private ownership. It is the policy that Gorbachev followed in the 1980s. Gorbachev called it Perstrolka. Whatever you call it, it is a return to a market economy= Capitalism.
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Petrograd
Definition
During World War I, the name that St. Petersburg was changed to...
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Leningrad
Definition
After the Russian Revolution, the name of St. Perersburg was changed to...
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The USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Soviet Union
Definition
It was established by Lenin in 1922 with the union of the Russian SFSR(Proclaimedafter the Russian Revolution of 1917) and various other sopviet republics, including Belorussia and the Ukraine, Moscow was the capital.
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Self-Determination
Definition
Freedom of the people of a given area to determine their own political status. The right of a nation to break away from an empire, declare its independence, and form a new country.
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Comintern
Definition
An association of Communist parties of the world, estabilished in 1919 by Lenin and dissolved in 1943 by Stalin.
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