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WH: Ch 14.5
Russian Revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| HAMMER & SICKLE | SYMBOL OF SOVIET UNION THAT REPRESENTED THE URBAN INDUSTRIAL WORKER AND THE RURAL AGRICULTURAL WORKER (480) |
| NICHOLAS II & ALEXANDRA | LAST ROMANOV TSAR AND TSARINA OF RUSSIA |
| PETROGRAD | SOVIET NAME FOR ST PETESBURG (478) |
| DUMA | RUSSIAN LEGISLATIVE BODY (477) |
| PROLETARIAT | WORKING CLASS (478) |
| INEFFICIENT FACTORIES and TRANSPORTATION COULD NOT SUPPLY THE MILITARY | REASON WHY RUSSIA SUFFERED MANY WWI CASUALTIES AND WOULD WITHDRAW FROM WWI (478) |
| RASPUTIN | MONK WHO INFLUENCED THE TSARINA ALEXANDRA; HE WOULD BE MURDERED (478) |
| HEMOPHILIA | BLOOD DISORDER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY (478) |
| ABDICATE | TO RELINQUISH THRONE (478); NICHOLAS ABDICATED - HIS SUBJECTS LOST FAITH IN THEIR TSAR |
| SOVIETS | RUSSIAN COUNCIL OF WORKERS AND SOLDIERS (478) |
| BOLSHEVIKS | RADICAL SOCIALIST GROUP (COMMUNISTS), LED BY LENIN, WHO OVERTHROW PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT (REDS) (478) |
| LENIN | LEADER OF THE BOLSHEVIKS (479) |
| MENSHEVIKS | COMMUNISTS WHO BELIEVED IN SOCIALISM THROUGH GRADUAL REFORM (WHITES)(479) |
| TROTSKY | MARXIST REVOLUTIONARY WHO HELPED LENIN (479) |
| TREATY OF BREST LITOVSK | TREATY BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GERMANY TO END RUSSIA'S INVOLVEMENT IN WWI (481) |
| COMMUNISTS | THIS GROUP WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE TSAR(482) |
| CHEKA | SECRET POLICE OF THE COMMUNISTS (482) |
| GULAG | STALIN'S LABOR CAMPS (482) |
| COMMISARS | COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIALS (482) |
| USSR | UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (SOVIET UNION) (482) |
| STALIN | LEADER OF SOVIET UNION AFTER LENIN DIES (483) |