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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abdicate | (of a monarch) renounce one's throne. |
| Cheka | Secret police who executed suspected counter-revolutionaries and sent thousands to labor camps |
| Commissar | Political officials who ensured loyalty, specifically in the army, by using terror and force |
| Proletariat | the working class |
| Duma | Essentially a legislature set up for the provisional government under Kerensky |
| Soviet | A Russian soldier or worker under communism |
| Communism | a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. |
| Bolsheviks | an elite group of the soviets |
| Nicholas II | the last tsar of Russia, after his military leadership failed in WWI, along with other factors, he was forced to abdicate, and he and his family was |
| Rasputin | nicknamed the "Mad Monk," He was given a substantial amount of power Russia after supposedly healing the Tsar's son. He used that power to put unfit people into political positions based on bribes and flattery. |
| Lenin | a Russian revolutionary who led the October Revolution and established the USSR |
| Kerensky | leader of the provisional government |
| Trotsky | Russian government official, established the commissars and led the red army |
| Whites | counter-revolutionaries, capitalists, and tsar-supporters in the Civil War |
| Reds | Communists led by Lenin during the Civil War |
| The Russo-Japanese War 1905 | |
| Bloody Sunday | a swarm of proletariats marched to the Tsar's palace with demands, guards opened fire and 130 peaceful protestors were killed. |
| Problems in Russia prior to the revolution | food shortages, , fuel shortages, and the disaster of WWI |
| Protest in Petrograd | Women lead the revolt of workers and military due to the problems in Russia |
| February Revolution 1917 | As a result of the Protest in Petrograd and general disagreement with the tsar, Nicholas II abdicates and a new provisional government is installed by the Duma |
| October Revolution 1917 | Lenin leads and wins this with the Soviets with help from Germany and support from the people |
| Congress of Soviets | |
| War Communism | The new USSR established this during WWI, allowing the government to take control of production |
| The Red Terror | Chekas, in order to ensure loyalty, began aggressively persecuting suspected counter-revolutionaries and sending many to labor camps |
| Civil War | The struggle for control in Russia leads to this, between the Reds and Whites. Reds eventually won. |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Officially ended all Russian involvement in WWI, giving up all gained people and land. |
| Establishing the USSR | Russia is now the Soviet Union, established a constitution, elected legislature, now everyone 18+ can vote, and free education is available. |
| New Economic Policy | A small version of capitalism established in Russia after the creation of the USSR, in which small businesses could exchange extra work for supplies and money. |
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