Abeka World History Ch. 23
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The Rise of Communism
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Communism | A form of socialism which advocates the violent overthrow of existing governments with the goal of changing society and ultimately perfecting mankind. It always results in a totalitarian dictatorship that dominates the person, property, and even thought of its citizens by means of force and terror. |
| Marxism-Leninism | Another term for communsim, named after its two founders |
| Karl Marx and Vladmir Lenin | Two men who essentially founded communism |
| Karl Marx | Formulated the basic ideas of communism |
| Vladmir Lenin | First to put communism into practice on a wide scale |
| Friedrich Engels | Organized Marx's ideas into a pseudo-scientific format |
| Class Struggle | Karl Marx viewed history as ______ ______ between the wealthy and poor |
| Private Property | Karl Marx blamed ownership of what as the source of the conflict |
| Dialectic Materialsim | The idea that nothing but the material world exists and that the material conditions alone (i. e.---the environment and economics) determine how a person thinks, acts, feels, and believes |
| Bourgeosie | Middle Class |
| Proletariat | Working Class |
| Socialism | Government ownership and control of business and industry |
| From each according to his ability, to each according to his need | Karl Marx believed that production should be distributed by this principle |
| Dictatorship of the Proletariat | Karl Marx wanted to set up this |
| Opiate of the People | Karl Marx called religion this |
| Secular Humanism | The human self-consciousness itself; became the foundation of communist ideology |
| 1848 | Date for The Communist Manifesto |
| The Communist Manifesto | Laid out a program for communist revolution |
| Communism | In this system there is no God, creation, morality, fall of man, family ties, indeviduality, incentive, or hope |
| First International | Karl Marx organized the International Workingmens' Association, also called this |
| Das Kapital | What Karl Marx considered to be his greatest intellectual triumph, which was published in 1867; a theoretical foundation for communist ideology |
| Kiev | Capital of Ukaine |
| Rus | Viking tribe which Russia is named for |
| Moscow | Town that rose to prominence in Russia |
| Ivan III | The first true national leader of united Russia |
| Czar | Caesar |
| Ivan the Terrible | The first czar; a cruel ruler |
| Serfs | Class of people that were little more than slaves |
| Michael Romanov | Began the Romanov dynasty |
| 300 | Number of years the Romanov dynasty lasted |
| Peter the Great | Greatest and most capable of the Romanov czars; called himself emperor |
| St. Petersburg | Capital built by Peter the Great to serve as his "window to the west" |
| Catherine the Great | Russian empress who embraced western ideas, including the ideas of French philosopher Voltaire |
| Alexander I | By the end of his rule, Russia had become the largest country in the world by promoting colonization in North America |
| Nicholas I | Faced trouble with revolutionaries during the Decembrist Revolt and Crimean War |
| Decembrist Revolt | Radical uprising during the reign of Nicholas I |
| Crimean War | War in which Nicholas I attempted to gain an outlet to the Mediterranean Sea at the expense of Turkey |
| Alexander II | "The Czar Liberator" |
| Alexander III | Subjected Jews to periodic, organized massacres called pogroms |
| Pogroms | Periodic, organized massacres of Jews |
| Nicholas II | Czar who lost much prestige after a humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War |
| Russo-Japanese War | A brief conflict over control of Manchuria |
| Bloody Sunday | Incident where troops fired and killed several hundred people in a crowd |
| Duma | An elective legilative body with limited power |
| Provisional Government | Resembled a Western representative democracy |
| Alexander Kerensky | Leader of the Provisional Government and Russia's Labor Party |
| Vladmir Lenin | A devout communist who began the Bolshevik Revolution |
| Mensheviks | Minority |
| Bolsheviks | Majority |
| Leon Trotsky | Lenin's chief henchman |
| Red Gaurds | Lenin's military force that was set to stir up trouble |
| 1917 | date for the Bolshevik Revolution |
| Bolshevik Revolution | Succeeded in making Russia the first communist state in history |
| Russia | Fist communist state in history |
| Cheka | Lenin's secret police force |
| White Russians | Those who opposed communism |
| Red Russians | Those who favored communism |
| Red Army | Army formed by Leon Trotsky |
| Central Committee | Communist Party and its ruling elite |
| Third International | An organization dedicated to inciting Communist revolution and establishing a world wide communit state |
| War Communism | Lenin's economic policy which attempted to centralize all of Russia's assets under the control of the communist party |
| New Economic Policy | New form of state capitalism |
| 1922 | Date for the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | Soviet Union |
| Joseph Stalin | One of the most brutal rulers of all time |
| Five-Year Plan | Stalin's plan to transform the Soviet Union into an industrial and military superpower |
| Collectivized | Forcing small, private farms to band together into large collective farms supervized by appointed managers |
| Ukraine | One of the most productive agricultural regions in the world |
| Genocide | The extermination of a political, cultural, or ethnic group |
| 10 Million | Number of people who died under Stalin's collectivization of Russian agriculture |
| 7 Million | Numbwr of people who died under Lenin's war communism |
| Great Purge | The rooting out of anyone who posed the slihgtet threat to Stalin's authority |
| Aleksander Solzhenitsyn | Wrote The Gulag Archipelago |
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