| A | B |
|---|
| Totalitarian State | Government which controls all aspects of citizens lives |
| Socialist realism | Artistic movement used to show Communism in a positive light |
| Komsomol | Youth organization used to promote Communist values |
| Lenin | Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution |
| Bolshevik | Revolutionary Communist party in Russia |
| Bolshevik Revolution | Coup of November 1917 that overthrew Russia's provisional government |
| Romanov | Royal family of the Russian Empire |
| Rasputin | "Mad Monk" advisor of the Royal Family |
| USSR | New name of the Russian empire under Communist control |
| Trotsky | unsuccessfully attempted to gain control of the Soviet Union after Lenin died |
| Red Guard | Army of the Bolshevik Party |
| Great Purge | Stalin's program to rid the Soviet Union of old Bolsheviks and anti-Communists |
| Command Economy | System in which the government controls all means of production |
| White Army | Forces of Czar Nicholas in the Russian Civil War |
| Cheka | Czar's secret police |
| Stalin | New leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin |
| Communism | Political system aimed at eliminating social classes and giving workers control over the means of production. |
| Treaty of Brest- Litovsk | Ended Russian involvement in World War I |
| Socialism | economic system in which the State controls production |
| Proletariat | The working class |
