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Nicholas and ALexandra
the ruling couple of Russia during the 1900’s
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Gregory Rasputin
A “holy man” who had great influence over the Czarina. Alexandra
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Bolsheviks
Name Lenin give to the group of people who were to lead the Russian Revolution. Term means “Majority”
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Leon Trotsky
Individual who helped Lenin during the revolution
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Red Army
Members who supported communism regime
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Whites
Counter Revolutionaries who remained loyal to the Tzar
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Cheka
A secret police force created by the Communists
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USSR
Union of SOviet Socialist Republics
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NEP
An economic policy adopted by Lenin in 1921 that allowed small private businesses to reopen
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Great Purge
A reign of terror in Russia were Stalin Cracked down on people who were against him
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Comintern
An organization created by Lenin that encouraged groups from around the world to rise up against imperial powers
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Command Economy
Form of economy where the government makes all basic economic decisions
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Pravda
Name of the communist newspaper. When translated means “Truth”.
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Alexandra Kollontai
A leading woman’s right activist who became the only high ranking woman to serve in Lenin’s government
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Osip Mandelstam
Jewish poet who was severely punished because of his work questioning communism
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Mikhail Sholokhov
The russian author “And Quiet Flows the Dawn”, which describes life as a Russian soldier during WW1, the russian revolution, and the russian civil war
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Totalitarian State
Form of government in which one party dictates and regulates every aspect of the citizen life
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Anna Akhmatova
One of Russia’s great poets but work could not be published because the violated state policy
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Proletariat
Working class
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Soviet
council of workers and soldiers set up by russian revolutionaries in 1917
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Commissar
communist party official assigned to the army to teach party principles and esure party loyalty
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Collective
large farm owned and operated by peasants
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Kulak
wealthy peasants in the soviet union in the 1930’s
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Atheism
the belief that there is no god
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Social realism
artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing soviet life in a positive way
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