Russian Revolution
German philosopher that criticized capitalism and advocated for a socialist mode of production.
Karl Marx
Public ownership means the states owns the ________________ rather than the bourgeois
Means of production
Communication made with the intent to indoctrinate citizens to support the communist party; such as posters, newspapers, etc.
Propaganda
He was the first leader of communist Soviet Union
Vladimir Lenin
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
Communism
The monarch of Russia at the turn of the century
Tsar Nicholas II
Communism aimed to created a _______ society, comrade!
Classless
This organization was called the Cheka, NKVD and then the KGB and had the power to arrest, imprison, and execute without trial.
He was the leader during the Cuban Missile crisis, and known for de-Stalinization and opening up international relations: "the Thaw."
Khrushchev 1953-1964
The strict obedience to an authority at the expense of personal freedom. The communist party is the source of all political decisions.
Authoritarianism
This revolutionary group wanted a limited number of professional revolutionaries and an abrupt revolution.
The Bolsheviks
Few checks and balances on the use of power by political leader, limited __________.
Refers to turning individual landholdings and labour into collective farms executed by Stalin
Collectivization
Man-made famine in Ukraine
Holodomor
The belief that all people are equal and should have equal rights and privileges
The year the revolution was executed
1917
A “dictatorship of the proletariat” would transition from capitalism to communism. When society is classless then the dictatorship of the proletariat would cease to exist.
Worker's government
A type of state in which one political group has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution
One Party state/system
Gorbachev was associated with restructuring the economy known as, ___________ and reorganizing politics to be more open, known as ____________.
Perestroika and Glasnost
Individualistic society that believed in private property, rule of law, individual rights and freedoms, competition, economic freedom, self-interest, (PRICES).
Classical Liberalism
The group that would band together with the Bourgeois during the revolution, then rebel against the Bourgeois
The proletariat
An economic system that discourages profit seeking, private ownership, competition. The group is more important than the individual
Collectivization
When a country's leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image through unquestioning flattery and praise.
Cult of personality
A campaign of political repression that involved the imprisonment and execution of party members who opposed the leader: Joseph Stalin
The Great Purge
A form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state; exercises an extremely high control over public