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| Marx | The author of the communist manefesto. He is known as the father of communism. |
| Proletariat | The working class people in Marx's terms. These were the people that were going to overthrow the upper class and start the communist revolution. |
| Materialism | The term for the desire for material posessions |
| Class Struggle | The desire to rise from the lower class to the upper class. Communism was designed to eliminate class struggles by creating a totally classless society |
| Tzar Nicholas II | The tzar at the time of the communist revolution. In case you are really lost, in pre-communist Russia the Tzar was the ruler of the country. |
| Bloody Sunday | Father Gapon lead a march in front of the Tzar's house to get better conditions for the lower class workers. The problem was that the Tzar was out of town at the time and the people who were running the country during the march got scared and sent down guards to "handle" the situation. The guards opened fire on the marchers and hundreds of people were killed. |
| Father Gapon | He was the man who was asked by the Tzar to organize the march in front of the Tzar's house that resulted in Bloody Sunday. |
| Russo-Japanese War | This was the war between Russia and the |
| Rasputin | This was the man who controlled the Tzar for a while. He cured the Tzar's son of hemophilia and was believed to be magical by the Tzar and his family. He was murdered. |
| October Manifesto | This was the manifesto written by the Tzar that established slightly better conditions and rights for the lower class people of Russia |
| Duma | This was the people's congress of russia that the Tzar established in the October Manifesto. Although it sounds like a big deal it really wasn't because the Tzar didn't listen to anything they said and everytime anything happened that he didn't like he called it off |
| March Revolution | This was the revolution where the tzar was forced to leave power |
| Soviets | Groups of small communist societies |
| Provisional Government | The government that controled russia after the tzar and before lenin |
| Order #1 | This was the order given to the army not to listen to the tzar and to support the communist revolution |
| Lenin | The head of the Bolsheviks who was the first leader of the communist government. |
| Pease, Land, Bread | Lenin said he had this three step process. First, he wanted to get Russia out of WWI, then he wanted to give everybody some land to farm, and finally he wanted to make sure everybody had food to eat. |
| CHEKA | The first secret police in Russia. |
| November (October) Revolution | This was the revolution where Lenin declared himself the ruler of Russia |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | This was the treaty between Russia and Germany that ended WWI for Russia |
| Trotsky | He was the commesar of war for Russia. He was against the passing of the NEP and so he was exiled from russia. He went to mexico where he was assasinated in 1940 |
| Civil War (Whites and Reds) | This was the war between the supporters of communism and the Tzar's army. |
| Stalin | Thesecond leader of communist Russia. He was much more intence than Lenin. |
| NKVD | The new secret police |
| Bukharin | This was the other man that could have taken power after lenin's death. He was much less extreme than Stalin. His views were a combination of Stalin's and Trotsky's |
| Zinoviev and Kamenev | These were the people that were blamed for the death of that guy |
| Kirov | This was the man that people were saying wanted to take stalin's job. He told stalin he didn't and stalin arranged his death anyway |
| War Communism | This is the idea that during a war all food and supplies go to the soldiers fighting the war. As a result, the people of the country get nothing |
| NEP | The New Economic Policy |
| Collectivization | The idea that everybody shared big kitchens and lived in assigned appartments and other such ideas. |
| Industrialization | The increase in technology and industry in a country |
| Ukranian Famine (Terror Famine) | This is what we looked up in the computer lab. The people had no food because it was all taken by stalin so they were eating their kids to survive |
| Great Purges | This was when Stalin killed everybody that opposed him |
| Great Terror | This is when Stalin killed people for no reason in order to scare the people of russia into obeying him without question |
| December Decrees | These were the 3 rules that said 1. Trials can take a max. of 10 days. 2. The person on trial can not defend themselves. 3. Capital punnishment WILL be enforced |
