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44 Cards in this Set
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Anarchism
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A political Theory favoring the abolition of governments
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Anti-Semitism
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Prejudice against or hostility towards the Jews
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Autocracy
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Political System governed by a single individual
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Black Market
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Illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought or sold in violation of rationing/control.
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Bolsheviks
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"Majority" Russian Party, left wing that followed Lenin. Became Russian Communist Party
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Bourgeoisie
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(According to Marxist beliefs) property owning, working middle class
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Capitalism
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Economic system based on private ownership of capital
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Central Committee
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(Russia) Communist party's nominally elected executive body b/w Party Congress
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Chauvinism
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Patriotism, belief in national superiority, race
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Constitution
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Law determining the fundamental political principles of government
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Constituent Assembly
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Body composed for the purpose of drafting/adopting a constitution
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Counter Revolutionaries
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Anyone who opposes a revolution
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Coup de' tat
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Sudden unconstitutional deposition of government (Usually through violence)
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Duma
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Legislative body in ruling assembly of Soviet Russia
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Emancipation
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Various efforts to obtain political rights or equality
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Factionalism
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Splitting of group into factions; Conflict between factions
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Ghettos
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Any segregated mode of living/working that results in stereotyping or bias
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Gulag
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Russian prison/labor camp
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Intelligentsia
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Social class of people engaged in higher status (elite of society)
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Kulaks
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Prosperous peasants who owned land and could hire workers
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Marxism
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Political philosophy, economic/social view based on materialism. Social change, capitalism by communism. Views by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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Mir
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Soviet space station, program
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Mensheviks
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Faction of the Russian revolutionary movement (1903) after dispute b/w Lenin and Martov
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Mutiny
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Open rebellion against constituted authority
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NEP(Lenin)
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New Economic Policy- Economic policy proposed to prevent Russian economy from collapse
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Octobrists
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Non-Revolutionary centrist Russian political party (formerly: Union of October 17)
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Peasants
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Agricultural worker who subsists by working on small land
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Productionism
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Economic concept of producing goods for bettering the economy
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Proletariat
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Working/Lower class (wage workers)
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Provisional Government
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A temporarily formed government, until a new one is developed
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Radicals
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Group of people with opinions or actions far beyond norm (extremists)
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Red Terror
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USSR campaign of mass arrests and executions conducted by Bolsheviks
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Reds
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Bolsheviks militia-army
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Scissors Crises 1923
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Incident during the New Economic Policy, when there was a wide gap b/w industrial and agricultural prices
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Separatists
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Person/Group that seeks the splitting of a larger group, country; "factions"
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Serfs
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A semi-free peasant who works but is bound to the land by the lord
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Socialism
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Political philosophy of supporting social and economic equality, collective decision decision making, government/public control
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Soviets
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Elected governmental council in communist country
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Totalitarian
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A system of governments where people have virtually no authority, total power held by state/government, absolute control
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Tsar
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Monarch/Supreme Ruler
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White Terror
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Foreign forces/opponents or part of Soviet Government; carrying of mass violence against pop., tortured and shot people suspected of being a Soviet.
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Whites
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Political-military force who unsuccessfully fought the "Reds"
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Xenophonbix
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Having abnormal fear of/hatred of strange/foreign
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Zemstovs
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Form of local government instituted during the great liberal reform in Imperial Russia by Alexander II
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