| A | B |
|---|
| Proletariat | the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners |
| soviets | councils of workers and soldiers |
| commissars | communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles to ensure party loyalty |
| comand economy | in which government officials made all basic economic decisions |
| collectives | large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group |
| kulaks | wealthy peasants |
| totalitarianism | government in which one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens' lives |
| socialist realism | artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing soviet life in a positive light |
| Rasputin | Alexandra came to rely on the advice of Gregory Rasputin; "holy man" |
| Lenin | adapted Marxist ideas-spread ideas |
| Great Purge | launched by Lenin- in this reign of terror, stalin and his secret police cracked down especially on Old Bolsheviks, or party activists form the early days |
| pravda | newspaper |
| NEP | adopted by Lenin; allowed some capitalist ventures and some small businesses were allowed to reopen for private profit; peasants held on to small plots of land and freely sold their surplus crops |
| Joseph Stalin | gains power after Lenin's sudden death in 1924; beat Trotsky for position of Russia |
| Czarina Alexandra | wife of Czar Nicholas II; left domestic affairs to the czarina; relied on advice of Rasputin |
| Bolsheviks | an elite group to lead the revolution and set up a "dictatorship of the proletariat" |
