| A | B |
| Proletariat | workers in Russian |
| Joseph Stalin | revolutionary leader who took control of the Communist Party after Lenin |
| command economy | type of economy were the government makes all the decisions |
| collective farms | a large government owned farm |
| indoctrination | instruction in the government's beliefs ot mold people's minds; relied on by Totalitarian states |
| censorship | control of all mass media |
| totalitarian | government that has total control over people's lives |
| propaganda | information or material used to advance a cause or for persuasion for a political purpose |
| czar | ruler of Russia is called |
| Leon Trotsky | military general in the Red Army during the rule of Lenin |
| Soviet | locla council consisting of workers, peasants ans soldiers |
| Bolsheviks | group of revolutionaries led by Lenin |
| Communist Party | political partty practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and Lenin |
| Duma | the legistlative body that established the Provisional Government of the Soviet Union |
| Kulak | class of wealthy peasants who resisted Communist Party actions |
| Siberia | area of frozen tundra in Russia |
| Communist Manifesto | outline of Marx and Engles ideas about Marxism |
| Great Purge | the arrest, exile, or killing of thousands of suspected enemies of the Communist Party in Russia |
| Karl Marx | called the "Father of Communism" |
| Five-Year Plans | Stalin's plan to develop the Soviet Union's economy |
| Police Terror | when the police use brutal force to enforce the central govenrment's policies |
| Nicholas II | last Czar of Russia |
| Rasputin | an eccentric monk who was assassinated because of his corrupt influence on the Russian royal family |
| Lenin | the leader of the Bolsheviks and the first ruler of the Soviet Union |
| N.E.P. (New Economic Policy) | Lenin's small scale version of capitalism instituted to revive the Soviet economy |