| A | B |
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| 22nd January 1905 | Bloody Sunday |
| 1904 - 05 | Russo - Japanese War |
| 1914 | Russia goes to war against Germany and Austria - Hungary |
| March 2, 1917 | Nicholas II abdicates |
| 18 Feb - 4 March 1917 | February Revolution |
| March Revolution | Czar Nicholas II abdicates the throne |
| October Manifesto | Czar Nicholas II issued this after Bloody Sunday |
| Provisional Government | This was set up after the March Revolution |
| Duma | Russia's first Parliament |
| Lenin | First Leader of Communist Russia |
| Totalitarian state | when the state controls all aspects of life |
| Peace, Bread, Land | These promises granted the Bolsheviks a treaty with Germany |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Ratified in March, 1918, Lenin ceded the Baltic states, eastern Poland, and the Ukraine to the Germans. |
| Stalin | He industrialized the Soviet Union |
| November Revolution | The Bolsheviks seize power as a result of Lenin leading the communists took over the vital city of St Petrograd and removed the Provisional Government from power |
| Mensheviks | Member of the moderate non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, opposed to the Bolsheviks and defeated by them after the overthrow of the tsar in 1917. |
| Proletariat | Workers or working-class people, regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism) |
| Command Economy | An economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government. |
| Alexander II | Freed surfs killed by a member of the "Peoples Will" |
| Vladimir Lenin | Leader of the Bolshevik Party |
| Bloody Sunday | Massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905 |
| Rasputin | Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra |
| Alexander Kerensky | moderate socialist revolutionary who served as head of the Russian provisional government from July to October 1917 |
| Lavr Kornilov | Russian general, who was accused of attempting to overthrow the provisional government established in Russia after the February Revolution of 1917 and to replace it with a military dictatorship |
| Leon Trotsky | Communist theorist and agitator, a leader in Russia’s October Revolution in 1917, and later commissar of foreign affairs and of war in the Soviet Union (1917–24). In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, however, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent. |
| Kronstadt revolt | It was a rude shock to the Bolsheviks when the red sailors of Kronstadt went into open rebellion in March 1921. The sailors saw themselves as loyal to the Soviet cause, if not to the Communist rulers. That bitter winter saw Kronstadt, like most other cities in Russia, hungry and discontented. Anger at material deprivations was compounded by the authoritarian regime the Bolsheviks were building, which seemed to violate the spirit of the revolution that the sailors had helped win |
| Joseph Stalin | Secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–53) and premier of the Soviet state (1941–53) forced rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agricultural land, resulting in millions dying from famine while others were sent to labor camps. His Red Army helped defeat Nazi Germany during World War II |
