| A | B |
|---|
| proletariat | working class |
| soviet | concil of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917 |
| commisar | communist party official assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty |
| totalitarian state | government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens' lives |
| atheism | belief that there is no god |
| socialist realism | artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light |
| command economy | system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions |
| collective | large farm owned and poerated by peasants as a group |
| kulak | wealthy peasant in the Soveit Union in the 1930s |
