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Sexton chapter 15
Bellevue West Chapter 15
Question | Answer |
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Proletariat | Working class |
Soviet | Council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917 |
Commissar | Communist party official assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty |
Command Economy | System in which government officials make all basic economic decisions |
Collective | Large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group |
Kulak | wealthy peasant in the Soviet Union in the 1930's |
Totalitarian state | Government in which a one-party dictorship regulates eveery aspect of citizens' lives |
Atheism | Belief that there is no god |
Socialist realism | Artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light |
Czar Nicholas II | last Russian Czar. Forced to abdicate in 1917 |
Gregory Rasputin | self-proclaimed russian holy man and advisor to the royal family |
Vladimir Lenin | leader of Bolshevik Revolution in Russia |