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Soviet
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a council of workers
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Alexander Kerensky
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revolutionary leader among many who were eager to see genuine parliamentary ryle, religious and other freedoms, and a host of political and legal changes
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Russian Communist Party
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political party in Russia led by Lenin and the Bolsheviks
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Council of People's Commissars
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created by the communists, headed by Lenin, and drawn from soviets across the nation to govern the state
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Social Revolutionary Party
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emphasized peasant support and rural reform
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Congress of Soviets
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Bolshevik-dominated congress that replaced Parliament
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Red Army
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early beneficiary of two ongoing sources of strength for communist Russia: a willingness to use people of humble background but great ability, and an ability to inspire mass loyalty in the name of a brighter communist future
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New Economic Policy (NEP)
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helped reduce ecnomic disarray in 1921 by promising freedom of action for small businesspeople and peasant land owners
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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what Russia was now called
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Supreme Soviet
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had many trappings of a parliament and was elected by universal suffrage
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Stalin
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name one of the Communist party members of worker origins took on: meaning "steel"
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Jospeh Stalin
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emerged as undisputed leader of the Soviet state, his victory a triumph for party control over all branches of government
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Comintern
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Communist International office set up by Lenin to huide international revolutionary activity
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kulaks
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wealthy, commercailly oriented peasants who were particularly attuned to a profit-based market agriculture
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Collectivization
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creating large, state-run farms rather than individual holdings as in the West
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five-year plans
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under the state planning commission negan to set clear priorities for industrial development, including expected output levels and new facilities
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Poliburo
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party congresses and meeting of the executive committee
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Berlin Wall
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built in 1961 to contain the flow of people to West Germany
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Solidarity
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independent labor movement
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socialist realism
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a style in the arts bent on gloryifying heroic workers, soldiers, and peasants
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsym
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was exiled to the West because of the publication of his trilogy about the Siberian prison camps; found the West too materialistic and individualistic for his taste
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The Gulag Archpelago
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsym's trilogy
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Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned
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Two essentially autobiographical volumes written by Nadezhda Nadelstam telling her and her husband's story
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Nikita Khrushchev
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new Soviet leader that emerged in 1956 from a committee pack to gain primary power
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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quickly renewed some of the earlier attacks on Stalinist rigidity and replaced some of the old-line party bureaucrats; also made many other changes
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glasnost
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openness which implied new freedom to comment and criticize
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perestroika
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economic restructuring which Gorbachev translated into more leeway for private ownership and decentralized control in industry and agriculture
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Boris Yeltsin
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Gorbachev's successor who confirmed the stance that "any nation has the right to decide its fate by itself"
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