| A | B |
|---|
| pogrom | organized violence against Jews |
| Trans-Siberian Railway | world's longest continuous rail line |
| Bolsheviks | group of revolutionaries led by Lenin |
| V.I. Lenin | first ruler of the Soviet Union |
| Duma | Russia's first parliament |
| Rasputin | eccentric monk assassinated because of his corrupt influence on the Russian royal family |
| provisional government | temporary government led by Alexander Kerensky |
| soviet | local governing council |
| Joseph Stalin | revolutionary leader who took control of the Communist Party after Lenin |
| totalitarianism | government that has total control over people's lives |
| command economy | market in which government makes all the decisions |
| collective farm | large, government owned, agricultural settlement |
| kulak | member of a group of wealthy peasants mistreated by Stalin's government |
| great purge | arrest, exile, or killing of thousands of suspected enemies of the Communist Party |
| socialist realism | artistic style that praised soviet life and communist values |
| Sun Yixian | one of the first leaders of the Kuomintang; "father of modern China" |
| Kuomintang | Nationalist Party of CHina that overthrew the Qing Dynasty |
| May Fourth Movement | Chinese nationalist protest against China's fate as decided by the Treaty of Versailles |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the Communist revolution in China |
| Long March | escape of Communists to safety after being surrounded by Nationalist forces |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi | leader of the movement for Indian independence from Britain |
| civil disobedience | disobeying the law for purpose of achieving some higher goal |
| Mustafa Kemal | leader of Turkish nationalists who overthrew the last Ottoman sultan |
