Revolutions in Russia
A Russian national parliament formed in the early years of the 20th century. What am I?
Duma
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1922-52, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, 1941-53. Who am I?
Joseph Stalin
Chinese political and revolutionary leader: Provisional President of the Republic of China, and Premier of the Kuomintang of China, 1919-25. Who am I?
Sun Yat-sen (Sun Yixian)
Hindu religious and political leader and social reformer. Who am I?
Mahatma Gandhi
A temporary government. What am I?
A temporary government.
Siberian peasant who posed as a monk and exerted great influence over czar Nicholas II. Who am I?
Grigori Rasputin
An economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions. What am I?
command economy
A nationalist protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence. What am I?
May Fourth Movement
A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust. What am I?
civil disobedience
A large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms. What am I?
collective farm
A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917. What am I?
Bolsheviks
Government control over every aspect of public and private life. What am I?
totalitarianism
The Chinese Nationalist party, formed after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. What am I?
Kuomintang (Guomindang)
1st President of Turkey, 1923-38. Who am I?
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. What am I?
pogrom
One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of czar Nicholas II. What am I?
soviet
A member of a class of wealthy Russian peasants, esp. those who employed hired labor or possessed any machinery. What am I?
kulak
A 6,000-mile journey made in 1934-35 by Chinese communists fleeing from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces. What am I?
Long March
Shah of Iran, 1925-41. Who am I?
Reza Shah Pahlavi
Russian revolutionary leader: 2nd Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917; in the U.S. after 1946. Who am I?
Alexander Kerensky
Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist: Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, 1922-24, and Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, 1917-24. Who am I?
Vladimir Lenin
A campaign of terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin sought to eliminate all Communist Party members and other citizens who threatened his power. What am I?
Great Purge
Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China: 1st Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 1945-76. Who am I?
Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
A policy of resistance without violence inaugurated by Gandhi in 1919. What am I?
satyagraha
Ruler of Nejd, 1901-32, and king of Saudi Arabia, 1932-53. Who am I?
Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud