| A | B |
|---|
| collective | A large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group |
| kulak | A wealthy peasant |
| socialist realism | A style of art glorifying Soviet life |
| soviet | A council of workers and soldiers |
| totalitarian state | A form of government in which a one-party dictatorship tries to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens |
| Lenin | Marxist leader of the Russian Revolution |
| Osip Mandelstam | A Russian poet |
| Nicholas II | Russian czar who abdicated in 1917 |
| Gregory Rasputin | A “holy man” who had great influence over the czarina Alexandra |
| Joseph Stalin | Ruthless Soviet leader who industrialized the Soviet Union |
| New Economic Policy | Designed to help rebuild the Soviet economy; allows some capitalism |
| Stalin's Five Year Plans | Designed to help increase industrial output |
| Red Army | Communists in the Russian Civil War |
| White Army | Supported the czar in the Russian Civil War |
