WFS social studies 7
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26 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 october manifesto | october 9, 1905, list of reforms, tsar did not follow |
| 1991 | USSR and communism collapsed in Russia |
| Bolsheviks | lead by Lenin, took over Russia, wanted change |
| Menshevism | wanted to work with the current government to make changes |
| Progrom | organized form of violence against jews |
| February Revolution | Female factory workers strike/protest, tsar abdicate (1917) |
| October Revolution | Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government, Lenin rules (1917) |
| "Piece, land, bread" | what lenin promised to bring to russia |
| collective farms | vast areas of land, many people share the work |
| Dictatorship of the proletariat | one person telling the workers/people what to do (this was Stalin's idea) |
| socialist realism | form of expression meant to glorify communism through the arts |
| Kulaks | independent farmers, forced to give up land by Stalin |
| Permanent Revolution | Lenin, Trotsky, communism would spread to entire world (world revolution) |
| Red army | army of the bolsheviks, communists won, Trotsky was leader |
| White army | Bigger army, unorganized, opposed communism, lost (when the Red Army and White Army battled this was the Russian civil war (1917) |
| Proletariat | industrial workers, marx supported |
| Bourgeois | middle class |
| serfs | lowest social class in tsar's time, produced food for Russia |
| Propaganda | important to getting public support (mainly used in posters) |
| USSR | Named changed from Russia (1922) |
| Treaty of Brest Litovsk | ended Russia's involvement in WW1 |
| Tsar Nicholas II | leader of capitalist Russia, abdicated (February (1917) |
| Alexander Kerensky | leader of provisional government, lost power because he decided to put Russia back into war (October (1917) |
| Vladimir Lenin | Lead Bolsheviks, controlled communist Russia, died (1924) |
| Joseph Stalin | gained control after Lenin died, sent Trotsky to Siberia |
| Karl Marx and Marxism | history=struggle of social classes, communism=good, inspired Lenin, Capitalism=bad, supported prolatariats, focused on Capitalists badness |
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