| A | B |
|---|
| Bloody Sunday | 1905; peaceful march by Russians turned deadly when Czar's guards fire on crowd |
| October Manifesto | document issued by Czar Nicholas II; reforms-Duma, free |
| Duma | Russian elected legislature |
| Kulaks | rich Ukrainian peasants; targeted by Stalin |
| March Revolution (1917) | overthrew Czar Nicholas, and set up the provisional government |
| November Revolution (1917) | overthrew the provisional government; led by Lenin and the Bolsheviks |
| provisional government | temporary govt. led by Alexander Kerensky |
| Father Gapon | Orthodox priest, led peaceful march to czars palace, looking for help from czar |
| Nicholas II | last russian Czar, abdicated during March Revolution |
| Czarina Alexandra | German wife of Nicholas; distrusted by Russian people |
| Grigor Rasputin | "Mad Monk"; advisor to Czarina, will help her govern when Nicholas is at the front during WWI |
| Karl Marx | socialist, Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital; proletariat will overthrow capitalists exploiters of the workers |
| VI Lenin | Bolshevik, radical will establish a Communist govt. in Russia |
| Josef Stalin | Successor to Lenin; 5 years plans, collective farms, purges, totalitarian rule, command economy |
| Bolsheviks | the majority, radicals, November Revolution |
| Communists | emerge from Bolsheviks, Lenin, one-party, dictatorship |
| Cheka | secret police, formed by Lenin |
| collective farms | Large farms, no private ownership |
| Lenins New Economic Plan | plan to industrialize USSR; sme private ownership of business and land |
| Stalin's 5 Year Plans | increase heavy industry |
