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PROLETARIAT
- workers or working-class people, regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism).
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BOLSHEVIK
- 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 of 1917.
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LENIN
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.
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RASPUTIN
- Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian peasant, an experienced traveler, a mystical faith healer, and trusted friend of the family of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of the Russian Empire.
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PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENY
- A provisional government also called an interim or transitional government is an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition, generally in the cases of new nations, or following the collapse of the previous governing administration.
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COMMUNIST PARTY
- A communist party is a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy
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JOSEPH STALIN
- Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition
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TOTALITARIANISM
- a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
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GREAT PURGE
- The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Russian: Большо́й терро́р) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.
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5-YEAR PLAN
- The first five-year plan (Russian: I пятилетний план, первая пятилетка) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism in One Country.
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COMMAND ECONOMY
- an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.
COLLECTIVE FARMS
- a jointly operated amalgamation of several small farms, especially one owned by the government.
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KUOMINTANGE (NATIONALIST PARTY)
- Nationalist Party, also called Kuomintang, Wade-Giles romanization Kuo-min Tang (KMT; “National People's Party”), political party that governed all or part of mainland China from 1928 to 1949 and subsequently ruled Taiwan under Chiang Kai-shek and his successors for most of the time since then.
SUN YIXIAN
- Chinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty
JIANG JIESHI
- Chiang Kai-shek, also romanized as Jiang Jieshi and known as Jiang Zhongzheng, was a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China
MAY 4TH MOVEMENT
- 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
MAO ZEDONG
- Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China
LONG MARCH
- The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang army.
ROWLATT ACT
- Rowlatt Acts, (February 1919), legislation passed by the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India. The acts allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial
AMRITSAR MASSACRE
- The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919 when a crowd of nonviolent protesters, along with Baishakhi pilgrims, 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.
MOHANDAS GANDHI
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
- Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power
SALT MARCH
- The Salt March, which took place from March to April 1930 in India, was an act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) to protest British rule in India.
MUSTAFA KEMAL
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and founder of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President from 1923 until his death in 1938
