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Russian Revolution and Stalin
Woodcreek High School Ms. Cottrell
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History
10th Grade
11/06/2012

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Atheism
Definition
The belief that there is no god.
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Checka
Definition
The early Soviet secret police.
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Command Economy
Definition
A system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions.
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Commissars
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Communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure loyalty during the Russian Revolution.
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Collective
Definition
A large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group.
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Gulag
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In the Soviet Union, a system of forced labor camps in which millions of criminals and political prisoners were held by stalin.
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Kulak
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Wealthy peasant in the Soviet in 1930.
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Russification
Definition
Making a nationality's culture more ethnically Russian.
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Socialist Realism
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An artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light.
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Soviet
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A council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917.
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Totalitarian State
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A government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens' light.
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