| A | B |
|---|
| totalitarianism | one party state which has total power |
| Tsar | imperial ruler of Russia |
| proletariat | urban workers |
| collectivisation | individual farms merged into a large collective mechanised farm |
| peasantry | poor rural workers |
| intelligentsia | intellectual classes |
| cold war | ideological battle of words between USA and USSR |
| communism | political theory where the state controls the means of production |
| show trial | public trial of prominent members of the communist party |
| kulaks | richer peasants |
| kolkhoz | collective farms |
| gosplan | central planning committee that set production targets |
| purges | to get rid of people |
| destalinisation | process of removing all influences of Stalin |
| Stakhanovism | movement where good workers were given rewards |
| NKVD | Soviet secret police |
| Gulag | Soviet prison camps |
| Five year plan | Stalin's plan to industrialise USSR |
| scorched earth | policy of destroying everything of value to an enemy |
| bolsheviks | political party led by Lenin who carried out the 1917 revolution |
