| A | B |
| Cheka | A secret police force |
| Collective | Large farm owned by peasants as a group |
| Commissar | Communists party official assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty |
| Totalitarian State | Government in which one party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens' lives. |
| Atheism | Belief that there is no god |
| Proletariat | Workers, Miners, etc. |
| Command Economy | Government makes economic decisions |
| Collectivization | pooling of land and labor in an attempt to increase efficiancy |
| kulak | Wealth peasant in the soviet union in the 1930s |
| Soviet | Another word for councils |