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8th grade history
Russia, 26/5+28/4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Proletariat | the growing class of factory and railroad workers,miners, and urban wage earners. |
| Soviet | councils of workers and soldiers |
| Collectivies | larger farms owned and operated by peasants as a group |
| Atheism | the belief that there is no god, the official state policy |
| Russification | making a nationality's culture more Russian |
| Comintern | Communist International wanted to encourage would-wide revolutions |
| Cheka | a secrete police force much like the tsar's |
| Commissar | communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles |
| Command Economy | government officials made all basic economic desicions |
| Gulag | brutal labor camps |
| Kulaks | wealthy farmers |
| Social Realism | Stalin wanted artists and writers to create work in this style. The goal was to show Soviet life in a positive way. |