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| Proletariat | in Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia. |
| Bolvsheviks | a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917. |
| Lenin | The major leader of the Bolsheviks. |
| Rasputin | a self described "holy man", who claimed to have magical healing powers. |
| Provisional Government | a temporary government. |
| Soviet | one of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas II. |
| Communist Party | a political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin; originally the Russian Bolshevik Party. |
| Joseph Stalin | The ruthless leader of Russia whose last name meant man of steel. |
| Totalitarianism | government control over every aspect of public and private life. |
| Great Purge | a campaign of terror in the Soviet union during the 1930's, in which Joseph Stalin sought to eliminate all Communist Party members and other citizens who threatened his power. |
| Command economy | an economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions. |
| Five-Year plan | plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy. |
| Collective Farm | a large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms. |
| Kuomintang | the Chinese Nationalist Party, formed after the fall of Qing dynasty in 1912. |
| Sun Yixian | The Nationalist Party's first great leader. |
| May Fourth Movement | a national protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign interference. |
| Mao Zedong | an assistant librarian at Beijing University and one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party. |
| Jiang Jieshi | Headed the Kuomintang after the death of Sun Yixian. |
| Long March | a 6,000-mile journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communists fleeing Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist forces. |
| Rowlatts Acts | laws passed in 1919 that allowed the British government in India to jail anti-British protesters without trial for as long as two years. |
| Amritsar Massacre | killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amritsar to protest the Rowlatt Acts. |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi | leader of India's independent mvement. |
| Civil Disobedience | a deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust. |
| Salt March | A peaceful protest against the Salt Acts in 1930 in India in which Mohandas Gandhi led his followers on a 240-mile walk to sea, where they made their own salt from evaporated sea water. |
| Mustafa Kemal | a British commander who led Turkish Nationalists in fighting back the Greeks and their British backers. |
