| A | B |
|---|
| Lenin | the father of Russian Communism |
| the Bolshevik Revolution | another term for the Russian Revolution |
| World War I | it "helped" lead to the overthrow of the Romanovs & thus helped start the Russian Revolution |
| Stalin | a brutal Soviet dictator - introduced 5 year plans & collective farms |
| 5 year plans | a command economic system - the govt. sets production goals which MUST be met |
| command economy | the government controls & owns everything - tells the people what will be produced |
| collective farms | huge farms Soviet farmers forced on to - no private ownership |
| Russian Revolution | 1917 - the Tsar is out - communism is in |
| communism | it was to be totally equality for all - it wound up being totalitarian |
| totalitarian | dictatorship |
| KGB | Soviet Secret Police |
| Cold War | military arms war between the USSR & US |
| detente | talks between USSR & US to cut back/eliminate nuclear weapons |
| Khrushchev | he took over the USSR after Stalin - tried to put missiles in Cuba |
| Brezhnev | communist hardliner - 1970s & 1980s - pro communism |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | the Soviet army has the right to keep communist govts. in power in Eastern Europe |
| kolkhoz | a Russian collective farm |
| NEP | Lenin's attempt to get the Soviet economy going using a little bit of capitalism |
| purge | to get rid of someone you don't like |
| nuclear proliferation | a build-up of nuclear missiles by the US & USSR |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | 1985 Soviet leader introduced glasnost & perestroika - led to end of Communism in USSR |
| glasnost | political openess in USSR mid - 1980s - freedom of speech, press & religion |
| perestroika | capitalism in the USSR in mid-1980s |
| Warsaw Pact | a communist military defense force in Eastern Europe |
| NATO | a military force in Western Europe protecting democracy |
| USSR | it stands a group of communist republics led by Communist leaders in Moscow as 1 country/nation |
| Soviet Union | a shortened term for the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) |
| Iron Curtain | a defensive barrier which kept people in communist eastern Europe from escaping to the West |
| Karl Marx | he wanted worker's revolution - got communist dictatorships |
| Peace, Bread & Land | Lenin's slogan during the Bolshevik Revolution |
