Flashcards: K. Nordstrom Week 39: English
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Terms | Definitions |
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 communism | The political/economic theory whereby the people cooperate and work for the good of each other and there is no need for government. |
| socialism | The political/economic theory whereby the means of production are owned by the community collectively, usually through the state. |
| proletariat | the (industrial) working class |
| bourgeois (adjective) | middle class; often used in a negative sense by the Soviets, for example to refer to the ideas or art which they regarded as anti-revolutionary. |
| Marxism | The economic and political theory of Karl Marx. |
| feudalism | a social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return |
| Bolshevik | A member of one of the groups formed after the split of the Social Democratic Party in Russia. This group was led by Lenin. They believed that a small party of revolutionaries should seize power when the time was right. |
| Menshevik | A member of one of the groups formed after the split of the Social Democratic Party in Russia. They believed that the Party should be a mass organization which all workers could join and which would eventually take power. |
| Marxist | A follower of the economic and political theory of Karl Marx. |
| revolutionary (noun) | someone who leads, joins, or wants a revolution |
| kulak | a rich peasant who often owned his own animals and land |
| comrade | a colleague or a fellow member of an organization; a fellow socialist or communist |
| soviet | a workers' council; in the Soviet Union, a central part of the system of government at the local, regional and national level |
| provisional | existing or accepted for the present time but likely to be changed |
| Duma | the Russian parliament, established by Nicholas II after the 1905 revolution. |
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