Revolutions in Russia
A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia’s government in November 1917 ...
Answer: Bolsheviks.
Soviet marshal, statesman, and general secretary of the Soviet Communist party ...
Answer: Joseph Stalin.
Chinese political leader ...
Answer: Sun Yat-sen (or Sun Yixian).
A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust ...
Answer: civil disobedience.
One of the organized campaigns of violence against Jewish communities in late-19th-century Russia ...
Answer: pogrom.
Government control over every aspect of public and private life ...
Answer: totalitarianism.
The Chinese Nationalist Party, formed after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 ...
Answer: Kuomintang.
Hindu religious and political leader and social reformer ...
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi (or Mohandas K. Gandhi).
Russian revolutionary leader and writer. He was the chief leader of the 1917 Revolution, and head of the Soviet government from 1917-24.
Answer: 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 ...
Answer: Great Purge.
A nationalist protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign interference ...
Answer: May Fourth Movement.
An incident in 1919 in which British troops fired on an unarmed crowd of Indians ...
Answer: Amritsar massacre.
A Russian national parliament formed in the early years of the 20th century ...
Answer: Duma.
Large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms ...
Answer: collective farm.
A 6,000-mile journey made in 1934-35 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi’s Nationalist forces ...
Answer: Long March.
President of Turkey, 1923-38 ...
Answer: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of czar Nicholas II ...
Answer: soviet.
A style of art in which Communist values and life under communism are glorified ...
Answer: socialist realism.
Chinese communist leader ...
Answer: Mao Zedong (or Mao Tse-tung).
Movement in which Arabs sought to unite all Arabs into one state ...
Answer: Pan-Arabism.