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Russian After-Math
Political Policies
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03/31/2005

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The Centeral Committee
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The ruling body of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.
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Polltburo
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The executive committee of the Comunist party in the Soviet Union.
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Stalin
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The successor of Lenin, he was general secretary of the Communist Party. He ruled the Soviet Union for thirty years- from 1922 to 1953.
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Left-wing Communists are radical left-wingers
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The radical faction of a group. The communists were____-wing.
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Dictatorship
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A goverment with one-man rule.
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"Enemy of the People"
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Everyone criticized Stalin and everyone who questioned his policies.
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Purge
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To rid (a nation or political party) of people considered undesirable.
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The Great Purge
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How Stalin got rid of his enemies in the Communist Party and Red Army.
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A show trial
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A trial in which the accused person is found guilty long before his trial. The person is tortured to extract the confession. The accused makes a confession in public. After the trial, the person is immediatly executed.
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A police state
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A state in which the goverment exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the people, especially by means of secret police force.
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Siberia
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A region of central and easten Russia stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Used as a place of exile for political prisoners since the early 17th century.
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Forced Migration
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The forced movement of people to Siberia.
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Gulag
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The Russian name for the whole region of prison camps in Siberia. At any one time, there were over 3 million people in these camps.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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The Russian author who descrived the prison camps in Siberia.
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Totalitarianism
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A form of goverment in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed.
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Authoritarianism
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A goverment that does not believe in individual freedom, but insts on the individual's absolute obedience to the goverment. The individual is subordinate to the state. The systematic violation of human rights.
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Propaganda
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The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests pf tjpse advocating such a doctrine or cause.
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Censorship
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When goverment officials prevent the printing of newspaper articles, the publishing of books, or news broadcasts on radio and television.
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Culy of the Personality
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Obsessive devotion to or veneration for a political leader.
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It went by many names: Cheka, OGPU, NKMD, KGB.
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The intellifence and internal security agency of the former Soviet Union.
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Komsommol
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The communist youth group in the Soviet Union. Hitler had this Hitler Youth: What did Stalin have?
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Khrushchev and Brezhnev
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Two commissars under Stalin. When he died, the rose to become head of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.
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Mass Murderer
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A person, especially a political or military leader, who is responsible for the deaths of many individuals.
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Secret Police
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A police force operating largely in secret and often using terror tactics to supress dissant and political opposition.
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Robesplerre
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In the French Revolution of 1769, this man led the Reign of Terror. He arrested suspected traitors and had them guillotined, Stalin was like this man.
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Reign of Terror
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A period of brutal suppression or intimidation by those in power.
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"Socialism in one Country"
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Lenin hoped the RUssian Revolution would spark a coomunist revolution in every industrialized country in Europe. When that did not happen, Stalin decided to build...
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Human Rights
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The basic right and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, which include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
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Terror
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Violence commited or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population as for military or political purposes.
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Stalinism
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The bureaucratic, authoritarian exercise of state power and mechanistic application of Marxist-Leninist principles that ruled the Soviet Union from the 1930's to the 1950's.
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