the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labor power
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Bolsheviks
radical marxists that were willing to sacrifice everything for change
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lenin
leader of the Bolshevik party
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Rasputin
Gained great influence over czarina and helped her rule. Nobles and advisors furious at losing their power
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provisional government
or temporary government, was established and headed by alexander kerensky
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soviet
local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers, and often had more power than provisional government
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communist party
Bolshevik leaders renamed russia as the union of soviet socialists republics (USSR) . Change name of party
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joseph stalin
next communist leader of russia after lenin
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totalitarianism
government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life
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great purge
1937 eliminated anyone who threatened his power
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command economy
system in which the government made all economic decisions
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five-year plan
set impossibly high quotas on increase of output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity
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collective farm
Combined farms into large government owned farms
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kuomintag
or nationalist party, was pushing for modernization and nationalism
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sun yixin
leader of kuomintang
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may fourth movement
Chinese outrage over treaty of Versailles leads to demonstrations across china
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mao zedong
one of the founders of the chinese communist party
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jiang jiesha
becomes leader of kuomintang after sun’s
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long march
700,000 nationalist soldiers surround mountain stronghold. Communist forces flee and march 6,000 miles. 1,000’s die from hunger, cold, exposure, and battle wounds
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ottoman empire
The origins of modern-day Turkey trace back more than 600 years, when it was part of the vast and powerful
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central powers
The Ottoman Empire joined this power
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mustafa kemal
However, in 1922, a brilliant commander successfully led Turkish nationalists in fighting back the Greeks and their British backers
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