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the workers -would rule the country
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Proletariat
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supported a small number of committed revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for change
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Bolsheviks
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major leader of the Bolsheviks
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Lenin
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a self-described "holy man"
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Rasputin
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temporary government
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Provisional government
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one of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar NIcholas II
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Soviet
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political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I Lenin: originally the Russian Bolshevik Party
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Communist Party
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One of the most notable men
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Joseph Stalin
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government that takes total, centralized, state control overy aspect of public and private life
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Totalitarian
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a campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power
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Great Purge
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a system in which the government made all economic decisions
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Command Economy
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plan outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for development of the Soviet Union's economy
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Five-Year Plans
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a large government-controllled farm formed by combining many small farms
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Collective farms
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Nationalist Party, formed after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912
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Kuomintang
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the first leader of the national party
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Sun Yixian
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national protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated against the Treaty of Versailles and Foreign interferece
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May Fourth Movement
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an assistant librarian at Beijing Universaity
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Mao Zedong
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Formerly called Chiang Kai-shek, headed the Kuomintang
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Jiang Jieshi
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hazardous 6,000-mile-long journey
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Long March
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allowed the government to jail protesters without trial for as long as two years
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Rowlatt Acts
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sparked an explosion of anger across India
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Amritsar Massacre
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leader of the Independence movement
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
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the deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law
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Civil Disobedience
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a peaceful protest
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Salt March
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brilliant commander, successfully led Turkish nationalist in fighting back the Greeks and their British backers
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Mustafa Kemel
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