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Stalin Vocabulary
Vocabulary from Wicked History Biography Stalin
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Apprehension | Suspicion or fear that something will happen |
| Assassination | The murder of a well known or important person |
| Bolsheviks | Russian Marxists who established the communist soviet union after the Russian tsar was overthrown in 1917 |
| Capitalists | As defined by Karl Marx the people of a society who own the businesses factories and land |
| Cheka | The security organization that Lenin formed to hunt down political opponents of the soviet regime |
| Collectivization | During stalins regime the process of forcing farmers onto huge collective farms owned by the government |
| Commissar | Until 1946 the head of the government department in the Ussr |
| Communism | A system in which the government owns all land and property and controls the economic and political lives of the citizens |
| Communist | A person supporting the communist party of the Soviet Union, China or another communist country |
| Confiscate | To seize someone’s property or possession |
| Counter-Revolutionary | In the soviet union a person who opposes the changes brought on by the communist party after the Russian revolution |
| Dacha | A Russian country house usually used in the summer |
| Democracy | A system of government in which the people hold the power either directly or through electing representatives |
| Deport | To expel someone from his or her homeland |
| Depose | To forcefully remove from office |
| Duma | The legislative body in Russia between 1906 and 1917 |
| Exile | The state of being kicked out of one’s homeland |
| Famine | A serious and widespread lack of food |
| Gulags | Labor camps in the soviet union from the 1930 to the 1955 |
| Illiterate | Not able to read or write |
| Kolkhoz | A collective farm in the Soviet Union |
| Kulak | In the soviet union a class of peasants who were considered better off the the other peasants they were persecuted during collectivization |
| Manifesto | A public declaration of principles |
| Marxism | The political and economic theories of Karl Marx. Marx predicted capitalism would be replaced by a classless society |
| Okhrana | The secret police of tsarist Russia in the late 1800s and the early 1900s |
| Paranoid | Intentionally suspicious |
| Parliament | An assembly of elected representatives who makes the laws in some countries |
| Provisional | Temporary or interim |
| Purge | The removal or elimination of members of a group who are perceived to be disloyal |
| Radical | Advocating extreme political change |
| Revolutionary | A person who supports the overthrow of his or her government |
| Russian-Orthodox | Describing the major church of Christianity in Russia |
| Saboteur | Someone who deliberately damages or destroys property to hinder the enemy’s war efforts |
| Sadistic | Taking pleasure from hurting others |
| Smallpox | A serious, very contagious disease that causes high fever and skin eruptions that can leave permanent scars |
| Soviet | An elected council of workers |
| Tsar | The emperor of Russia before the revolution of 1917 |
| Tundra | Land near the arctic circle where there are no trees |
| Tyrannical | Ruling others in cruel or unjust ways |
| Vigilante | Describing a self-appointed group of citizens who take law enforcement into their own hands, without legal authority |
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