Stalin Terms

Triumuirate

ruling or influential bloc of 3 people

Leftists

Bolshevik party members who wanted to abandon NEP

Rightest

Bolshevik/CCP members who wanted peaceful development and continuation of NEP

Nepman

derisive term for profiters who exploited commercial freedoms of NEP to increase their wealth

Industrialization

process of creating a factory-based economy

Capitalist Methods of Finance

owners of private capital (money) increase wealth through making loans to receive interest

Soviet

Bolshevik dominated worker. In China—communist community dedicated to Marxist egalitarian principles

Premier

Soviet chairman of the council of comisars

Vozhd

Russian-supreme leader

Collectivization

depriving peasants of their land, forcing them to live in workers communs

State procurments

enforced collections of grain from the peasants

Trotsky

key leader of Russian revolution and Stalin’s rival for power, he was Lenin affiliated

Kamenev

Old Bolshevik and close ally of Lenin. Originally worked for Stalin against Trotsky but switched up

Zinoviev

Old Bolshevik and longtime associate of Lenin. Leader of cominterm and was originally against Trotsky with Stalin but switched up

Collective farms

farms run as co-operatives in which peasants shared labour and wages

Gosplan

soviet state economic planning agency

Light-engineering

skilled, specialized activities such as precision tool-making

Modernization

movement of a nation from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial one

OGPU

succeeded the Cheka as the Soviet State Security Force