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| Soviets | one of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of czar |
| Vladimir Lenin | Bolshevik leader, took over Soviet government after WWI: great speaker, communist revolutionary: NEP |
| Bolsheviks | group of revolutionary Russians who took control after Czar; "Bread, land, peace" |
| New Economic Policy | Lenin's economic policy, tryin to help small business |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet leader after Lenin, ruled with an iron fist, 5 year plan, ruled through WWII |
| Great Purge | a campaign of terror during the 1930s under Stalin, anyone who threated Stalin's power was eliminated |
| Totalitarian State | a political system where the state under the control of a single political person |
| Command Economy | an economic system where the government makes all the economic decisions |
| 5 year plan | Stalin's economic plan to modernize Russia into an economic power |
| Collectives | group motivated by at least one common issue or interest, working to get the desires of a group |
| communisim | in pure form a classless society where everyone is equal, Marxist government |
| Czar | leader of Russia |
| March Revolution 1917 | Russian Revolution caused by food shortages, Tsar abdicates the throne |
| "Peace, land and bread" | Bolsheviks and Lenin's promise to Russians during the Russian Revolution |
| NEP (New Economic Policy) | Lenin's economic policy |
| Propaganda | form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position |
| Cheka | Secret Police of Stalin |
| Atheism | Russia's "religion", belief in one God |
| Collective | Large farm owned and operated by peasants |
| Romanovs | Tsar's Russian Family |
| Rasputin | Leech of the Romanvs, sleazy man who corrupts Tsar's wife into believing he had mistical powers |
| censorship | control (suppression) of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body |
