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Revolution and Nationalism
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Social Studies
10th Grade
01/11/2013

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Proletariat
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Workers; primarily industrial
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Bolsheviks
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Group of revolutionaries (communist faction) led by V.I. Lenin
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Lenin
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Leader of the Bolsheviks & first ruler of the Soviet Union
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Rasputin
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Eccentric monk who was assassinated because of his corrupt influence on the Russian royal family
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Provisional Government
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Temporary government led by Alexander Kerensky after the abdication of czar Nicholas II (March 1917)
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Communist Party
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A political party practicing the ideals of Karl Marx and Lenin
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Joseph Stalin
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Revolutionary leader who took control of the Communist Party after Lenin (1924-1953)
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Totalitarianism
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Government that has total control over all aspects of society
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Great Purge
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The arrest, exile, killing of thousands of suspected enemies of the Communist Party under Stalin
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Command Economy
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Economy in which the government makes all the economic decisions
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Five-Year Plan
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Stalin's plan to develop the Soviet Union into an economic superpower
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Collective Farm
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Large government owned farm
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Czar
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Emperor of Russia; derived from the Latin Caesar
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NEP
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New Economic Policy; under Lenin in Soviet Union that permitted private ownership of industries
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Pogrom
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Organized violence against Jews
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