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Communism
communism 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.h |
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 Farms | a large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms. |
Commune | in Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together. |
May Fourth Movement | a national protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign interference. |
Red Guards | militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong’s call for a social and cultural revolution. |
Cultural Revolution | a 1966-1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal. |