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chpt 26
Russian Test Prep.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Proletariat | Working class. Ex: factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners. |
| Soviet | Council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917. |
| Cheka | Early Soviet secret police force. |
| Commissar | Communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty during the Russian Revolution. |
| Command Economy | System in which government officials make all basic economic decisions. |
| Collectives | Large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group. |
| Atheism | Belief that there is no god. |
| Gulag | A system of forced labor camps in which millions of criminals and political prisoners were held under Stalin. |
| Kulaks | A wealthy peasant in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. |
| Russification | Making a nationality's culture more ethnically Russian. |
| Comintern | International association of communist parties led by the Soviet Union for the purpose of encouraging worldwide communist revolution. |
| Socialist Realism | An artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light. |
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