| A | B |
|---|
| proletariat | revolutionary term for workers |
| Bolsheviks | group of revolutionaries led by Lenin |
| Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) | leader of the Bolsheviks & first ruler of the Soviet Union |
| Grigori Rasputin | an uneducated Siberian peasant who was a self described "holy man" who claimed to have magical powers |
| Provisional government | temporary government after Czar Nicholas abdicated, led by Alexander Kerensky |
| Soviets | local councils consisting of workers, peasants and soldiers |
| Communist Party | a political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and Lenin |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the communist party after Lenin. He was cold, hard and impersonal |
| totalitarianism | government that has total control over people's lives |
| Great Purge | arrest, exile, or killing of thousands of suspected enemies of the Communist Party |
| command economy | economy in which the government makes all the economic decisions |
| collective farms | large, government owned farms formed by combining small farms |
| Czar Nicholas II (Romanov Family) | 300 year long dynasty; Nicholas II was last ruler, pushed industrialization, had total power |
| Russian Civil War | Red (Bolshevik) Army led by Leon Trotsky vs White (everyone else) Army; lasted 3 years, 14 million Russians died; Red won |
