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A&E Biography Joseph Stalin: Red Terror

A&E Biography Joseph Stalin: Red Terror. Vocabulary . Bolshevik. a member of the extremist wing of the Russian Social Democratic party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917. Georgia.

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A&E Biography Joseph Stalin: Red Terror

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  1. A&E Biography Joseph Stalin: Red Terror Vocabulary

  2. Bolshevik a member of the extremist wing of the Russian Social Democratic party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917

  3. Georgia independent country in SE Europe bordering on Black Sea; (1936–91) became a constituent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

  4. Karl Marx German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary. The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894) explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form the basis of all communist theory, and have had a profound influence on the social sciences.

  5. Trotsky Russian revolutionary theoretician. A leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), he was later expelled from the Communist Party (1927) and banished (1929) for his opposition to the authoritarianism of Stalin and his emphasis on world revolution.

  6. Romanovs The family that ruled Russia from the seventeenth century until the Russian Revolution. Empress Catherine the Great and Czar Peter the Great were Romanovs

  7. Siberia Region in Russia extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific

  8. Vladimir Lenin Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)

  9. Collective Farms a farm especially in a Communist country formed from many small holdings collected into a single unit for joint operation under governmental supervision

  10. Gulag chief administration of corrective labor camps

  11. Intelligentsia intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite

  12. Proletariat 1: the laboring class ; especially the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live 2: the lowest social or economic class of a community

  13. Propaganda 1: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person 2: ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause ; also a public action having such an effect

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