| A | B |
|---|
| pograms | organized violence against Jews |
| Alexander III | turned Russia into a police state in 1881 |
| Trans-Siberian Railway | the world's longest continuous rail line |
| Bolsheviks | supported a small number of committed revolutionaries in Russia willing to sacrifice everything for radical change |
| Lenin | major leader of the Bolsheviks |
| Duma | Russia's first parliament |
| Rasputin | a self described holy man |
| provisional government | Leaders of the Duma established this, it is also a temporary government |
| Soviets | local council consisting of workers, peasants and soldiers |
| Joseph Stalin | killed millions of Russians, he glorifited himself as the symbolof the nation |
| totalitarianism | describes a government that takes total, centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life |
| command economy | a system in which the government made all economic decisions |
| collective farms | government owned farms |
| kulaks | class of wealthy peasants |
| Great Purge | a campaign of terror by Stalin to rid anyone who threatened his power |
| socialist realism | an artisitic style that praised Soviet life and Communist values |
| Kuomintang | Nationalist Party in China |
| Sun Yat-sen | leader of the Kuomintang |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader of China |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi | learder of the independence movement in India: believer in non-violence |
| civil disobedience | the deliberate and public refusal to obey and unjust law |
| Mustafa Kemal | led teh Turkish nationalists in overthrowing the last Ottoman sultan |
