| A | B |
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| Pogrom | organized violence against Jews |
| Trans-Siberian Railway | World's longest continuous rail line |
| V. I. Lenin | Leader of the Bolsheviks and first ruler of the Soviet Union |
| Duma | Russia's parliament |
| Rasputin | Eccentric monk assassinated because of his corrupt influence on the royal family |
| Provisional Governmentq | Temporary government that controlled Russia after Nicholas II abdicated |
| Alexander Kerensky | Leader of the Provisional Government |
| Soviet | Local governing council |
| Joseph Stalin | Secretary General of the Communists who succeeded Lenin |
| totalitarianism | Government that exercises total control over the lives of its citizens |
| command economy | economic system in which the government makes all the economic decisions |
| collective farm | large government owned farmed |
| kulak | member of a group of wealthy peasants brutally mistreated by Stalin's government |
| socialist realism | artisitic style that praised Soviet life and communist values |
| Peace, Land, and Bread | Popular slogan of Lenin's |
| Bolshevik | Marxist group that believed the revolution could begin immediately under the leadership of a small highly organized group |
| Mensheviks | Marxist group that believe Russia must industralize before the revolution could begin |
| Nicholas II | Last tsar of Russia; assassinated by the Bolsheviks |
| Great Purge | Arrest, exile, or killing of 1000's of suspected enemies of the Communist Party |
| Siberia | Place of punishment in Soviet Russia |
| Alexander III | Russian tsar who halted all reforms and used harsh measures to assure obedience to the crown |
| "autocracy, orthodoxy, and nationality" | the goals of Alexander III |
| Sergei Witte | Nicholas II's most capable minister who launched a program to expand industralization |
| Social Revolutionaries | Revolutionary group that believed that the revolution would begin with the peasants |
| Social Democrats | Revolutionary group that believed the revolutionary would begin with the workers |
| Russo-Japanese War | Humiliating defeat that sparked revolutions at home |
| Bloody Sunday | March by workers and their families on the Winter Palace requesting better working conditions; ended when soldiers fired on the marchers |
| Russian Civil War | Conflict between the Red Army of the Bolsheviks and the White Army composed of many different groups |
| Leon Trotsky | Commander of the Red Army |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Treaty between Germany and Russia which ended Russia's role in WWI |
| New Economic Policy | Lenin's compromise with capitalism |
| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | Name taken by Russia in honor of the 22 councils who helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution |
| collectivization | Stalin's policy to nationalize farming |
| Five Year Plans | Stalin's plans for rapid build up of Russia heavy industry |
| October Manifesto | Document issued by Nicholas II that created the Duma |
| nihlist | One who believes all aspects of past must first be erased before a new order can be established |
| narodniki | student revolutionaries who worked among the peasants to educate them about revolution |
