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the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule russia
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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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Bolshevik
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the major leader of the bolsheviks
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Lenin
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a self described "holy man", he claimed to have magical powers
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Rasputin
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temporary government
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provisional government
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local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers
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soviet
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new name for the bolsheviks
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Communist Party
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he was cold, hard, and impersonal
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Joseph Stalin
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government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life
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totalitarianism
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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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systemm in which the government made all economic desicions
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command economy
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set impossibly high quotas, or numerical goals, to increase the output of steel, coal and electricity
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Five Year Plan
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large, government own farms
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collective farm
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Nationalist party
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Kuomintang
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first leader of the Kuomintang
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Sun Yixian
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demonstrations spread to other cities and exploded into a national movement
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May Fourth Movement
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an assistant librarian at Beijing University
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Mao Zedong
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formally called Chiang Kai-shek, headed the Kuomintang
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Jiang Jieshi
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6,000 mile journey
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Long March
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allowed the gov't to jail protesters without trial
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Rowlatt Acts
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it sparked an explosion of anger across India
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Amritsar Massacre
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emerged as leader of the independence movement
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Mohondas K. Ghandi
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deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law
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civil disobedience
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peaceful protest
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salt march
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led turkish nationalist in fighting back the greeks
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Mustafa Kemel
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