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Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution Vocabulary/Main ideas
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10th Grade
02/27/2012

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Term
Proletariat
Definition

Definiton: The workers

 

*The Marxist Revolutionaries believed the industrial class of workers would overthrow the Czar. The would form a "dictatorship of the proletariat."

Term
Bolsheviks
Definition

1. Radical Marxist group

 

2. Lead by Lenin

 

3. Renamed the Communist Party

Term
Lenin
Definition

1. Leader of the Bolshevik Party

 

2. Encouraged by Germany to take over Russia after the Czar stepped down

 

3. Ruled Russia after a hostile take over of the provisional government at the Winter Palace

Term
Rasputin
Definition
Self described holy man who helped the Czars son and in return he was allowed to rule Russia's government until he was killed by nobles
Term
Provisional Government
Definition
A temporary government that took over after the Russian Czar stepped down
Term
Soviets
Definition
Local councils consisting of workers, peasants and soldiers
Term
Leon Trotsky
Definition
Leader of the Red Army, challenged Stalin for power over Russia when Lenin died. 
Term
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Definition
Russia and Germany signed this and it ended Russia's participation in WW1
Term
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Definition

Created by Lenin

 

 

It is a state controlled economic system

Term
Stalin
Definition

Means Man of Steal

 

Ruled Russia after Lenin

 

Ruled by fear and propaganda

Totalitarian
Term
Totalitarian Government
Definition

When the government has total control

 

The type of government used by Stalin in the Soviet Union

Term
Indoctrination
Definition
When the government molds its peoples mind
Term
5 tactics Stalin used to rule the Soviet Union
Definition

   1. Secret Police

     2. Indoctrination

  3. Propaganda

 4.Censorship

   5. Persecution

Term
The Great Purge
Definition

A campaign of terror used by Stalin directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power. 

 

8-13 million people died

Term
"Peace,land and bread"
Definition
Slogan used by Lenin to gain support before he took over Russia
Term
Command Economy
Definition

A system in which the government made all of the economic decisions for the country

 

*Created by Stalin

Term
Five Year Plans
Definition

*Stalin's ideas to development of the Soviet Union's economy

 

*This plan set impossibly high quotas/goals to increase the output of steal, coal, oil and electricity. 

 

*Stalin limited the production of consumer goods to reach theses goals and as a result the people faced severe shortages of food, clothing, housing and other necessary goods

Term
Collective Farms
Definition

Russia's government seized privately owned farms and made them large government owned farms

 

*Peasants worked on these farms to produce food for the government

 

*Peasants fought the government and did not want thier land taken

Term
Women's Rights Under Stalin
Definition

Women gained equal rights under the Bolshevik's

 

Stalin forced women to join the workforce under the Five Years Plan

 

Women were able to get higher level jobs and education but were still responsible for household responsibilites

Term
SALT MARCH
Definition

1.

*Britain was taxing salt

*Ghandhi and followers walked 240 miles to the seacoast to get their own salt from the sea water

 

2.

*Ghandi and followers try to protest a British salt factory, are attacked and arrested by the British

Term
Long March
Definition
Chinese communists (including Mao Zedong) walk 6,000 miles to escape the nationalists
Term
Mohandas Ghandi
Definition

*Holy man who fought for Indian independence

*Believed in non violent protests and civil disobedience

*Called Mahatma meaning "great soul"

Term
Mao Zedong
Definition

*Revolutionarty leader in China

*Created his own version of communism

Term
Civil Disobedience
Definition
When you break laws you feel are unjust but do so in a peaceful manner

-Used by Ghandi
Term
Rowlatt Acts
Definition
Any Indian who spoke out against the British would go to jail for two years without a trial
Term
Amritsar Massacre
Definition

*A reaction to the Rowlatt Acts

* 400 peaceful Indian protestors are killed by the British

*Sparked loyal Indians to become nationalists and want independence from the British

Term
Russification
Definition
Attempt by the Russian government to force their culture on people
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