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Question | Answer |
POLITBURO | POLITICAL BUREAU OF RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY |
PROLETARIAT | WORKERS IN INDUSTRY |
WAR COMMUNISM | NAME GIVEN TO BOLSHEVIK PARTY IN CIVIL WAR |
DUMA | RUSSIAN EQUIVALENT TO A PARLIAMENT (HAD LITTLE POWER) |
NEW ECONOMIC POLICY | CHANGE IN BOLSHEVIK ECONOMIC POLICY DUE TO FAILURE OF WAR COMMUNISM |
PETROGUARD | NEW NAME FOR ST PETERSBURG (IN WW1) |
KREMLIN | HEADQUARTERS OF COMMUNIST PARTY IN MOSCOW |
KRONSTADIT | SITE OF FAMOUS NAVAL MUTING IN MARCH 1921 |
MENSHEVIKS | MORE MODERATE WING OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (MINORITY) |
BELSHEVIKS | MORE RADICAL MARXIST GROUP LED BY LENIN (MAJORITY) |
APRIL THESIS | PROGRAM OF LENIN ON HIS RETURN TO RUSSIA |
NORODNIKS | POPULISTS |
BREST-LITOVSK | TOWN WHERE THE TREATY WAS SIGNED BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GERMANY |
PRAVDA | NEWSPAPER OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY |
RED GUARDS | ARMED WORKERS |
COMMISSAR | NAME OF HEAD OF A GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT, 'MINISTER'. |
WHITE RUSSIANS | THE FORCES OF THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION |
ZEMSTVAS | ELECTED RURAL COUNCILS |
SOVIET | COUNCIL OF WORKERS AND SOLDIERS |
OCTOBER MANIFESTO | A PROGRAM OF REFORM |
ALL RUSSIAN CONGRESS OF SOVIETS | ASSEMBLY OF DELEGATES |
ANARCHISM | PHILOSOPHY THAT ADVOCATED THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT |
CADETS | CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATS |
KULAKS | WEALTHY PEASANTS THAT REFUSED ACCEPTANCE TO COLLECTIVISATION |
KOLKHOZ | COLLECTIVE FORM DURING THE TIME OF STALIN |
ISKRA | BOLSHEVIK PAPER EDITED BY LENIN |
IZVESTIA | OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE SOVIET UNION |
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