Communism
Approximate number of deaths due to communism
What is over 100 million?
Date the Declaration of Independence was signed
What is July 4, 1776?
Date of the Communist Manifesto
What is 1848?
Year of the Bolshevik or October Revolution
What is 1917?
Lenin's three promises in his April Theses
What are peace, land, and bread?
Laos, Vietnam, North Korea, China, and Cuba
What are currently Communist countries?
Ancient civilizations that gave the Founders ideas about liberty and law
What are Greece and Rome?
Co-authored the Communist Manifesto with Marx
Who is Friedrich Engels?
Name for the anti-Bolshevik army opposing the Red Army
What is the White Army?
Result of Lenin's failed policies that killed over 5 million people
What is famine?
One of the two ways Communists achieve conformity
What is control of information or tools of violence?
What is "secure"?
Marx's name for the working class
Who are the Proletariat?
Romanov tsar during the Bolshevik Revolution who was executed with his family
Who was Nicholas II?
Lenin's brutal campaign to eliminate opposition, using repression and executions
What is the Red Terror?
Name for a radical all-embracing world view such as communism
What is an ideology?
Enlightenment thinker who thought that capitalism best reflected our moral sentiments
Who is Adam Smith?
Russian soldiers open fire on unarmed protestors in 1905, sparking rebellion
What is Bloody Sunday?
Lenin's second in command during the Bolshevik Revolution (later killed by Stalin)
Who was Leon Trotsky?
Areas of life (such as religion, government, culture) shaped by the economic base
What is the superstructure?
Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights to life, liberty, and property
Who was John Locke?
German philosopher who said we invented God, and religion is like a drug
Who is Feuerbach?
Socialist group that was less aggressive than the Bolsheviks
What are the Menshiviks?
Name for Lenin's secret police
Who are the cheka?