Romanov Dynasty
Sentence: The Romanov Dynasty began in 1613.

Definition: The House of Romanov was the second dynasty to rule Russia, after the House of Rurik, reigning from 1613 until the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II on March 15, 1917, as a result of the February Revolution. 
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Rasputin
Sentence: Rasputin was killed with a revolver.

Definition:Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.
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Felix Yussoupovn
Sentence: Felix Yussoupovn failed his first 2 attempts to kill Rasputin.

Definition: was a Russian aristocrat, prince and count from the Yusupov family, best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin.
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Revolution of 1905 
Sentence: Hundreds of people died during the Revolution of 1905 

Definition: Russian Revolution of 1905, uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy.
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Duma
Sentence:Meanwhile the political parties which were to divide the new Duma had taken shape.

Definition: a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics of the former Soviet Union.
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March Revolution:
Sentence: The march revolution was encouraged by Russian setbacks in World War I.

Definition:  Demonstrators clamoring for bread took to the streets of Petrograd. The Duma formed a provisional government on March 12.
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November revolution
Sentence: The November revolution overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks 

Definition: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin led his leftist revolutionaries in a revolt against the ineffective Provisional Government 
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Russian civil war 
Sentence:The Bolsheviks won the Russian Civil war .

Definition:  A conflict fought in Russia (1918–21) after the Revolution, between the Bolshevik Red Army and the counter-revolutionary White Russians.
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War Communism 
Sentence: War Communism was enforced by the Supreme Economic Council.

Definition: War communism or military communism was the economic and political system that existed in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War 
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New Economic Policy 
Sentence: The New Economic Policy helped the Bolshevik government survive the problems of 1921

Definition: was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who described it as a progression towards "state capitalism" within the workers' state of the USSR.
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Lenin
Sentence:Lenin was one of the leading spirits of the Zimmerwald and Kienthal meetings, and urged a general revolt of the workmen of all countries against the war.

Definition: The architect of Russia's 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the first leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 
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Trotsky
Sentence: Trotsky helped defeat forces opposed to Bolshevik control.

Definition: Trotsky was the paramount leader of the Soviet Red Army in the direct aftermath of the Revolutionary period. 
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Stalin

Sentence: Stalin led the country known as the Soviet Union for about 25 years. 

Definition: Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition 
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Five year plan 
Sentence:  the five-year plan's many successes led directly to Franklin Roosevelt officially recognizing the Soviet Union in 1933.

Definition: a government plan for economic development over five years. The first such plan in the Soviet Union was inaugurated in 1928.
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The Great Purge 
Sentence: However, many of them died during the Great Purge in the 1930s.

Definition:  a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.
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Kulaks 
Sentence: Many villages tried to resist collectivisation, but Stalin said his opponents were Kulaks – rich, greedy peasants only interested in themselves.

Definition: a peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor. Emerging after the emancipation of serfs in the 19th century, the kulaks resisted Stalin's forced collectivization, but millions were arrested, exiled, or killed.
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Cheka
Sentence: Cheka was Established on December 5, 1917 by the Sovnarkom,

Definition:  An organization under the Soviet regime for the investigation of counter-revolutionary activities.
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Gulags 
Sentence:a total of 10 million people were sent to the gulags 

Definition: The gulags were a vast network of detention centers and forced lab-our prisons located within the former Soviet Union.
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Totalitarian
Sentence: Totalitarian is characterized by leaders with strong personalities, such as Hitler in Nazi Germany and Stalin in the Soviet Union.

Definition: Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible
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Indoctrination 
Sentence: The goal should be to teach politics, rather than to indoctrinate students in a narrow set of political beliefs.

Definition: the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
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Propaganda 
Sentence: he was charged with distributing enemy propaganda

Definition:information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
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Censorship:
Sentence:He wrote according to order, and no question of censorship arose.

Definition: the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
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Fear and Intimidation
Sentence: Intimidation and scare tactics were used to stop the players from kneeling during the anthem.

definition:Intimidation is intentional behavior that would cause a person of ordinary sensibilities to fear injury or harm. 

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Communism 
Sentence: The collapse of the Berlin Wall was an important symbol of the end of communism in Eastern Europe.

Definition: 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.
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Fascism 
Sentence:the Fascist Revolutionary Party was founded in 1915

Definition: Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.
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Nazism 
Sentence: Hitler is an example of Nazism 

Definition: Nazism is a racist and antisemitic ideology which holds that the Aryan race is superior to all other races, and that the government must actively promote the perfect race.
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Hitler 
Sentence: Hitler killed himself in 1945

Definition:Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 
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Stalin 
Sentence: Stalin died in 1953 due to a stroke 

Definition:  Stalin was a Georgian-born Soviet revolutionary and political leader.
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Musolini 
Sentence: Musolini eventually made himself dictator prior to World War II

Definition: Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943
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