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Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bloody Sunday | massacre when the czar’s palace guards opened fire on several hundred unarmed workers. |
| Glasnost | a policy marked by Gorbachev, known as openness, which consisted of democratic change in Russia. |
| Cheka | Lenin’s secret police. |
| Duma | the name of Russia’s first parliament established in 1905. |
| Great Purge | a campaign of terror launched by Stalin in 1934. |
| Mensheviks | the majority faction of Petrograd Soviets. |
| Bolsheviks | a Marxist group who supported a small number of revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for radical change. |
| CIS | The Commonwealth of Independent States or a loose federation of the former Soviet territory. |
| Peter the Great | (1696) First absolute ruler of modern Russia who westernized Russia. |
| Soviets | local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers. |
| Communism | Political ideology based on the ideas of Marx and Lenin. |
| Politburo | was the ruling committee of the Communist party. |
| Boris Yeltsin | became Russian Republic’s first directly elected president. |
| The Red Guard | the Military Revolutionary committee (Bolshevik Militia) run by Leon Trotsky. |
| Alexander Kerensky | Russian lawyer, minister of justice, minister of defense, and eventually prime minister who kept Russia in the war. |
| Collective Farms | large government owned farms where they forced people to live. |
| Provisional Government | a temporary government in response to the disintegration of the czar’s government. |
| Ivan the Terrible | ruled Russia in 1533 and was the first ruler to receive the title czar. |
| Czar/Tsar | Russian word meaning “Caesar” |
| Joseph Stalin | was the 2nd leader of Russia and the Communist party by 1929. |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | signed March 3, 1918 by the Bolsheviks and Germans by which Russia lost 1/3 of its population and ¼ of its territory. |
| Mikal Gorbechev | was a liberal Russian who was the youngest leader ever at age 54. |
| Whites | army composed of Lenin’s opposition. |
| Reds | Bolshevik army. |
| Totalitarianism | a government that took absolute control of the public’s private lives. |
| Kulaks | is a class of wealthy peasants. |
| Ethnic Cleansing | is the act of trying to rid a certain race out of a country. |
| Westernization | is the use of Western Europe as a model for change. |
| Rasputin | a man claiming to have healing powers and manipulated the Czarina Alexandra. |
| Trotsky | military leader of the Red Army. |
| Stolypin | Russian Prime Minister who made positive lasting reforms. |
| 1905 Revolution | destructive series of riots and revolts throughout Russia following Bloody Sunday. |
| Boyars | nobles who own land in Russia. |
| Nicholas II | the last czar of Russia. |
| Pogroms | organized violence against the Jews supported by the Russian government. |
| Vladimir Lenin | the leader of the Bolsheviks and the first communist leader of the USSR. |
| Catherine the Great | German became empress when her husband (a Romanov) was dethroned and assassinated. |
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