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Worker's Democracy
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A worker's state.
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Kollontai
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commissar of public welfare advocate for women's rights.
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War Communism
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The policy of grain requisitioning, and nationalizing of industries and housing in response to food shortages, low productivity, and industrial chaos.
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Red Army
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Trotsky was commissar of war and built up a red army to counter the approaching white armies.
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White Army
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the old ruling class. After the Bolsheviks' signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Allies sent troops, military advisers, guns, and ammunition to the whites -- the counterrevolution.
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Civil War
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1918, extremely cruel, reds verses whites.
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Cheka
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special police force to deal with those who supported the whites. They had the power to imprison or executed suspected counterrevolutionaries without a trial.
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