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Russian rev!
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absoloute monarch | kings or queens who held all of the power within their states’ boundaries. |
| Westernization | using western Europe as a model for change |
| Boyar | landowning nobles in Russia |
| Proletariat | in Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia |
| Provisional government | temporary government |
| Bolsheviks | a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia’s government in November 1917 |
| Soviets | one of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas II |
| Communist Party | a political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin; originally the Russian Bolshevik Party |
| Totalitarianism | government control over every aspect of public and private life |
| Scientific Method | logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas |
| Great Purge | a campaign of terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, in which Stalin sought to eliminate all Communist Party members and other citizens who threatened his power |
| Command Economy | an economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions |
| COllective |