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CH 14 Russian Rev
Term | Definition |
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Proletariat | Marxist Theory-group of WORKERS Overthrew the Czar. |
Bolsheviks | Russian Revolutionaries took over Russ Gov Upper/Educated Middle class "Thought everything in Old Regime was 'Bolsheviks'". |
Lenin | His brother Alexander was Hanged for Plotting to kill the Czar.In the 1900's he planned to overthrow the Czar."Lenin". |
Rasputin | |
Provisional Goverment | 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 V.I. Lenin. |
Joseph Stalin | |
Totalitarianism | government control over every aspect of public and private life. |
Great Purge | a campaign of terror in the soviet union during the 1930, 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 | |
May Fourth Movement | a national protest in china in 1919, in which people demonstrated against the treaty of Versailles and foreign interference. |
Mao Zedong | |
Jiang Jieshi | |
Long March | a 6,000-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 protesters 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 K. Gandhi | |
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. |
Mustafa Kemal |