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Chapter 30
Revolutions and Nationalism (Post WWI)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Proletariat | In Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia |
| Bolsheviks | A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917 |
| Vladimir Lenin | Russian revolutionary. He was the leader of the Bolsheviks, and worked to overthrow the czar. He is known as the "Father of the Revolution" |
| Rasputin | Mysterious adviser to Czar Nicholas that claimed to have healing powers. He was able to ease Nicholas's son's hemophilia, a life threatening disease. He was given high advisory positions because of this ability |
| Provisional Government | A temporary government |
| Soviet | 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 Vladimir Lenin; Originally the Russian Bolshevik Party |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the Communist Party in Russia. He was a cold and ruthless leader that would lead Russia as a dictator. |
| Totalitarianism | Government control over every aspect of public and private life |
| Great Purge | A campaign of terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, in which Joseph 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 |
| Five-Year Plan | Plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy |
| Collective Farm | A large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms |
| Kuomintang | The Chinese Nationalist Party, formed after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 |
| Sun Yixian | First great leader of the Kuomintang . Worked to establish a modern government in China by promoting nationalism , democracy, and economic stability. |
| May Fourth Movement | A nationalist protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign interference |
| Mao Zedong | Leader of the Communist party in China. Believed he would be able to bring revolution to rural China |
| Jiang Jieshi | Leader of the Kuomintang following Sun Yixian's death in 1925. Promised democracy and political rights, but did not give the people these. Many Chinese turned to Communism as a result |
| Long March | A 6000 mile journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist Forces |
| Rowlatt Acts | Laws passed in 1919 that allowed the British government in India to jail anti-British protestors without trial for as long as two years |
| Amritsar Massacre | Killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amritsar to protest the Rowlatt Acts |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Leader of the Indian independence movement. Based his strategy on religious, peaceful protest rather than violence |
| Civil Disobedience | A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust |
| Salt March | A peaceful protest against the Salt Acts in 1930 in India in which Mohandas Gandhi led his followers on a 240-mile walk to the sea, where they made their own salt from evaporated seawater |
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