| A | B |
|---|
| Soviet | a Russian council of workers and soldiers |
| Nicholas | The Russian ruler at the beginning of World War I who led the Russian armies |
| Alexandra | The Russian co-ruler at the beginning of World War I who was left in charge of the government |
| Gregory Rasputin | a magician who controlled Russia through Alexandra, actually an illiterate Siberian peasant |
| Nadezhda Krupskaya | wife of Lenin |
| Leon Trotsky | a committed Marxist revolutionary who assisted Lenin |
| Red Guard | armed factory workers that helped Lenin take over Russia |
| Whites | the counter-revolutionaries who stayed loyal to the czars |
| Cheka | secret police of the Communists in Russia |
| Mikhail Sholokhov | Russian writer wrote about the Bolshevik takeover in the novel "And Quiet Flows the Don" |
| Bolshevik Revolution | takeover of Russia by Lenin and his cohorts |
| Command economy | when the government officials made all the basic economic decisions in the Soviet Union |
| collective | a state-owned farm that peasants were forced to live on |
| kulak | wealthy peasants |
| USSR | new Russian communist government under Lenin |
| NEP | Lenin's policy that helped save the Russian economy of the 1920s |
| Great Purge | a reign of terror launched by Stalin in 1934 to get rid of anyone that posed a threat to his position |
| Comintern | the Communist International, started by Lenin to encourage revolution against imperialistic powers |
| Totalitarian State | Stalin's one-party dictatorship |
| Socialist Realism | Stalin's requirement that artists and writers must only show the Soviet life in a positive light |
| Komsomol | the Communist party youth organization |
| Alexandra Kollontai | the only high-ranking woman to serve in Lenin's government |
