history vocab

proletariat

• workers or working-class people
• At the very beginning of 20th century the Russian Socialist Workers' Party

bolsheviks

• a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution, or just a person with politically subversive or radical views; a revolutionary.

lenin...

• Vladimir Lenin engineered the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and later took over as the first leader of the newly formed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Rasputin

• Rasputin, a wondering peasant who eventually exerted a powerful influence over Nicholas II and Aleksandra, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Imperial Russia, is one of the most mysterious and dark individuals of Russian history.

provisional government

• an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition
• Russian government established after the February Revolution of 1917 and lasting until the October Revolution of 1917. The provisional government was born by decision of the Duma, which on the 27th of February, formed the Provisional Committee of Duma Members.

soviet

• The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, abbreviated to USSR, was a socialist state on the Eurasian continent that existed from 1922 to 1991.

communist party

• A communist party is a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy.

Joseph Stalin

• leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

totalitarianism

• a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

great purge

• The Great Purge or the Great Terror was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.

five year plan

• a plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.

command economy

• a socialist economic system in which production and distribution of goods and services are controlled by the government and industry is mostly publicly owned.

collective farming

• a farm, or a number of farms organized as a unit, worked by a community under the supervision of the state, and they have the perrmission to take the peoples farming goods

Kuomintang

• the dominant political party of China from 1928 to 1949

sun yixan

• a Chinese physician, writer, philosopher, calligrapher and revolutionary, the first president and founding father of the Republic of China.

jiang jiesh

• a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975

may forth movement

• an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student participants in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting against the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially allowing Japan to receive territories ...

Mao zendong

• Chinese Communist leader and theorist. A founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1921), he commanded troops in the Chinese Civil War (1927–1949) and proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949.

long march

• communist leader Mao Zedong led his forces on a long march to safety in the northwest part of China.

rowlatt acts

• a legislative act passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in Delhi on March 18, 1919, indefinitely extending the emergency measures of preventive indefinite detention, incarceration without trial and judicial review

amritsar massacre

• took place on 13 April 1919 when a crowd of protesters, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, were fired upon by troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer.

gandi

• political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance

civil disobedience

• the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.

salt march

• an act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) to protest British rule in India.

mustafa kemal

• a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and founder of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President from 1923 until his death in 1938

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