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Bolsheviks |
a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russias gov. in nov. 1917. |
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Lenin |
major leader of the Bolsheviks whos name used to be Vladimir Ilyich. |
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Rasputin |
a self described "holy man" that claimed ti have magical healing powers. |
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communism |
a form of complete socialism in which the means of production would be owned by people. |
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Joseph Statin |
a cold, hard and impersonal person who worked with Leon Trotsky. |
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Sun Yat Sen |
first great leader of the Nationalist party. |
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Mao Zedong |
an assistant librarian at Beijing University. |
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Jiang Jieshi |
formerly called Chiang Kai-shek headed the Kuomintang after the death of Sun Yixian. |
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The Long march |
a hazardous, 6,000 mile long journey by communist forces. |
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Amritsar massacre |
slaughter were 1200 were wounded . |
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Mohandas K. Gandhi |
Emerged as leader of the independence movement after the massacre at Amritsar. |
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civil disobedience |
the deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law, and nonviolence as the means to achieve independence. |
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Mutsafa kemal |
a brilliant commander who succesfully led Turkish nationalists in fighting back the greeks and their British backers. |
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Nationalism |
the belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation (people who they share culture and history, not king or empire.) |
