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Vocab 14.1 + 14.2
Miklos - 4/3/2013
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10th Grade
04/01/2013

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A group of workers who overthrow the czar and come to rule in Russia.
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Proletariat
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Group of revolutionary marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917.
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Bolsheviks
Term
Leader of Bolsheviks was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
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Lenin
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A self-described "holy man" who claimed to have magic healing powers.
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Rasputin
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Temporary government
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Provisional Government
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Local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers.
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Soviets
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A political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin, originally the Russian Bolshevik Party.
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Communist Party
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Climbed to the head of government in 1922 through 1927. Became a dictator.
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Joseph Stalin
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A government that takes total, centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life.
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Totalitarianism
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A campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened Stalin's power.
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Great Purge
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A system in which government made all economic decisions.
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Command Economy
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Plans outlined by Joe Staling in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy.
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Five-years-Plans
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Large government controlled farm formed by combining many small farms.
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Collective Farms
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