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14 Cards in this Set
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Autocracy |
Rule by a sole and supreme leader appointed by god |
God |
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Communism |
Last stage in Marx's evolution of history - everybody is equal and shares goods produced by machinery rather than people = more leisure - people took what they needed fron central pool of goods |
Equal |
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Socialism |
Workers control state. Factories owned collectively + run by state. and goods shared fairly. Equal entitlement to good standard of living |
Equal |
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Totalitarianism |
Power concentrated in an indivdual/small group who excersise excessive control and denying fundamental civil + politcal liberties. Monitoring and controlling lives by secret police. |
Dictatorship |
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Capitalism |
Economic system based on private enterprise. Market determines price of goods, regulates supply + distribution. |
Private Businesses |
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Proletariat |
The working and underclass of russian society at the time. |
Underclass |
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Popular Revolution |
A revolution accepted and welcomed by the majority of the people in the country. |
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Revolution |
A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favour of a new system. |
"Out with the old and in with the new" |
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Slav |
Member of a group of people in central and eastern europe speaking slavic languages |
Slavic Language |
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Cossack |
Member of any certain groups of Slavs who are skilled calvarymen who were loyal to the tsar. |
Skilled Horseman |
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Narodnaya Volya |
The peoples will |
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Kulak |
Rich peasant who hired labour and owned animals |
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Okhrana |
The secret police under the tsar |
Po po |
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Nepman |
Small scale business owners and private traders who did well from the NEP. |
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