Authoritarianism Terms

Allies

France, Britain, Russia, and USA during WW II

Central Powers

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire in WW II

Tsarrist

Autocratic State lacking democratic policies in Russia

Self-determination

Right of people to be freed of domination from outside powers to form their choice of government

Imperial Powers

Countries that developed colony-owning empires: Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey

WW II

world war fought by Axis and Allied powers

Bolshevik

Russia´s dominant branch led by Lenin who overtook Russia in October, 1917 as he claimed to be the intrepretor of Marxism

Proletariat

Revolutionary working class to triumph in Marxist class-war

Facist

Applies to Italy’s first party, representing power and describes the 20th century right-wing regimes

Emperor Hirohito

lead Japan in 1926-89 and is the main force behind Japanese imperialism

GMD

Guomingdang formed in 1905 under Son Yatsen

Sun Yatsen

(1866-1925) China’s revolutionary party that founded Chinese Republic in early 20th century

New Deal

Programs introduced by President Roosevelt’s administration to tackle the Great Depression in the thirties

Secular State

Nation that doesn’t allow religion to have a defining or central place in it’s structure

Bourgeois

Marxist term for controlling the middle class that surpressed the working class

Poltiburo

the inner core of the communist party

Red Army

Bolshevik’s defense force

The Whites

Tsarists and anti-bolsheviks

Absolutism

single ruler or governing part that holds sole power

Marxist

advocate for socialist and communist revolution for classlessness

October Revolution

coop de’tat led by Lenin and the Bolshevik party in November 1917

Dialectic

Dynamic force that drives history along a predestined path

Tsars

Traditional absolute rulers of Imperial Russia

Cheka

All-Russian extraordinary commission for combating counter-revolution (OGPU and KGB)

Democratic centralism

Lenin’s notion that true democracy lies in party members obiedance to enlightened leadership

Factionalism

open criticism within CPSU of central orders

Purges

Terror system from Lenin and Stalin in the USSR and Moa in China to remove anyone that is a threat to their authority

Show trials

Public court hearings where accused were paraded around as enemies

SRs

Socialist Revolutionaries which was the largest until it was outlawed by the Bolsheviks

Orgburo

Soviet organizational Bureau of the Secretariat responsible for turning the government’s executive decisions and policies into practice

Reactionary

fiercely resistant to change

radical

change at the very root

nazism

germany’s socialist movement between 1933-1945

nationalism

devotion to the interests and culture of their nation, “my nation is better than yours”

USSR

union of soviet socialist republic and was the name given to communist russia in 1922

communism

theories developed by Karl Marx, class struggles present at all times. Told working class to overthrow oppressors and create worker’s state

Facism

Ultra-nationalist movement that operated under Musillini between 1922 and 1943. Describes extreme right-wing regimes

Enlightenment

following 18th century of new ideas to society

Liberal-democracy

states that function according to principles of individual freedom

left/right attitudes

left is liberal and right is conservative