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Communism Vocab.
Vocabulary.
Term | Definition |
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Absolute 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 Marxisttheory, the group ofworkers who wouldoverthrow the czarand come to ruleRussia |
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 |
Absolute 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 Marxisttheory, the group ofworkers who wouldoverthrow the czarand come to ruleRussia |
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 & V.I. Lenin; originally the Russian Bolshevik Party. |
Totalitarianism | Government control over every aspect of public & private life |
Scientific Method | Logical procedure for gathering & testing ideas. |
Great Purge | A campaign of terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930's in which Stalin sought to eliminate all Communist Party members & other citizens who threatened his power. |
Command Economy | An economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions. |