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 |