English: Russian Revolution Vocab

15 terms

Karl Marx

A philosopher who developed the ideas of communism

Communism

A society without social class or private property, everyone gets treated equally and community owns both production, property, and resources

Socialism

A society where onership, regulation, and production was controlled by society rather than indivisuals

Bourgeoisie

Middle class business people who lived well while the Russian peasentary suffered

Proletariat

The poor working class in Russia

Czar Nicholas II

The last Monarch of Russia

Bolsheviks

Russian that overthrew the Czar, killed hi,, his family, and started a revolution to make Russia a communist country

Vladimir Lenin

One of the earliest leaders of post-revolutionary Russia. He led the country until 1924

Leon Trostsky

An idealistic Bolshevik leader who believed in pure communism, he was run out of Russia by Stalin in 1929. He was murdered by the KGB in Mexico with and ice pick

Joseph Stalin

A cruel director who assumed power of lenin. He and secret police killed million who spoke out against him

KGB

The secret police charged with appending anyone known to be and enemy of communist community

Gulags

prision camps in Siveria where enemies of the government were sent to

The Great Purge

A campaign led by Stalin where “Enemies” of his government were compelled to confess to crimes. 1 Million were executed and 7 Million were sent to Gulags

Provda

The communist party newspaper which shared “facts“ about the governemnt

The Internationale

The song of the revolutionary movement that later became the anthem of the Soviet Union