| A | B |
|---|
| Alexander Kerensky | Leader of the Provisional Government |
| Nicholas II | Last Czar |
| Admiral Kolchak | Leader of Siberia, opposed the Reds |
| Leon Trotsky | War Commissar, enemy of Stalin |
| Cossacks | Independent military cavalry, Tsarist secret police |
| Zinoviev | Member of the original politburo, later expelled from the party by Stalin |
| Kulaks | wealthy farmers |
| Rasputin | Romanov's "Friend", peasant monk, assassinated by nobles |
| Kornilov | White commander in the Crimea |
| Duma | National Representative Body in Russia |
| Cheka | Secret Police under Lenin |
| NKVD | Secret Police under Stalin |
| New Economic Policy | Partial return to capitalism, instituted by Lenin after Kronstadt uprising |
| War communism | Bolsheviks economic policy characterized by requisitioning all surplus grain and the end to all private property |
| Mensheviks | Part of the Social Democrats, Communists, Opponents of Bolsheviks |
| Bolsheviks | Dedicated revolutionaries, communists, led by Lenin and Trotsky |
| Five Year Plans | Stalin's economic policy which restored communist economic philosophy |
| Collectivization | Stalin's policy of consolidating farms and farmers, opposed by Kulaks |
