Russia Smusha
Working class
Proletariat
Council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917
Soviet
Russian Czar and Czarina who were the last in the Romanov Dynasty and were overthrown in the Revolution of 1917
Nicholas and Alexandra
Counterrevolutionaries who remained loyal to the Czar
Whites
Organization started by Lenin to aid revolutionary
Commintern
Communist Party official assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty
Commissar
Economic System in which government officials make all basic economic decisions
Command economy
Illiterate peasant and self-proclaimed "holy-man" who was the key advisor to Alexandra
(He was poisoned, shot, beaten, and thrown into the river......cause of death.....drowning)
Rasputin
Communist secret police force
Cheka
Communist Party Newspaper (Its name means truth)
Pravda
Larged farm owned and operated by peasants as a group
Collective
Wealthy peasants in the Soviet Union
Kulaks
Radical socialist group in Russia
Bolsheviks
What does U.S.S.R. stand for??
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The only high ranking woman to serve in Lenin's government. She campaigned for women's rights.
A government in which a 1 party system regulates every aspect of citizens lives
Totalitarian State
Belief that there is no god
Atheism
Lenin's assistant and military leader. (He vied for leadership of the Communist Party after Lenin's death, but was exiled by Stalin)
Trotsky
A new economic plan developed by Stalin in which he compromised by allowing moderate uses of capitalism
NEP
A Jewish poet who was imprisoned and tortured for composing satire that criticized Stalin
Osip Mandelstam
Artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light
Socialist Realism
Russian poet who passed censorship and published And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov
Armed factory workers who developed into the Bolshevik army
Red Army
Stalin's "Reign of Terror" in which he killed many Russian citizens and military leaders to intimidate and gain power
"The Great Purge"
One of Russia's greatest poets who couldn't publish her works because she had violated state guidelines
Anna Akhmatova