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Chapter 28
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| proletariat | class of factory and railroad workers |
| Nicholas Romanov | Last czar of Russia |
| Gregory Rasputin | holy man advisor of Alexandria, killed |
| March 1917 | Bread riot of St Pertersburg, Russia |
| soviets | councils of workers and soldiers |
| Vladimir Ilyrich Lenin | 1870-1924 |
| Lenin | adapted Marxist ideas |
| Bolsheviks | "majority" revolutionary party |
| Leon Trotsky | Marxist revolutionary |
| Peace, Land and Bread | slogan of Bolsheviks |
| November 1917 | Red guard take over government at Winter Palace |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | to end war for Russia in 1918 |
| Reds | Communists |
| Whites | czar loyalitsts |
| Cheka | Russian secret police |
| war communism | communists took over banks, mines, factories and railraods |
| commissars | Communist party officials |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| symbol of Russia | sickle and hammer |
| New Economic Policy, NEP | state controled banks, foreign trade but allowed capitalist ventures |
| Joseph Stalin | 1879-1953, dictator of USSR |
| command economy | government makes all basic economic decisions |
| collectives | state owned farms |
| kulaks | wealthy peasants |
| The Great Purge | old party members sent to Siberia or death, 1936-1938 |
| Red Scare | US fear of Bolshevik plots |
| totalitarian state | one party dictatorshi[ regulating all aspects of life of citizen |
| atheism | beleif that there is no god |
| socialist realism | art style to boost socialism showing Soviet life in positive way |
| Anna Akhmatova | poet, "Requiem" |