Russia Part One Flashcards
(19 cards)
Autocracy
Absolute rule of person in a centralized state
Tsar
From ‘cesar’, russias emperor
Imperalism
Powerful countires turning other lands into colonies
Intelligentsia
Group or class, as a cultural or political elite power
Soviet
Elected local, district, or national council member
Narodniki
Radical populist agitators of late 19 centruy russia
Okhrana
Tsar sent secret police
Anarchism
Radical ideology seeking to overthrow all conventional forms of government
Proletariat
According to marx, class of individual workers
Provisional
Arranged or exists for the present, possibly to be changed later
Purges
Stalins cleansing of suspicious elements by firing squad
Paranoia
Unreasonable suspicion of others
Cold war
Period of armed tension and competition with the united states
Capital goods
Implements used to make other things
Consumer goods
Things people use (food, houses, electronics)
Nepmen
Business people in young soviet union who took advantage of opportunities for private trade + small manufacturing cleared by the new economic policy (NEP)
Westernizers
Sought to adopt western poltics + insitutions
Salvophiles
Keep tradition, create politics + institutions superior to the west
Liberal reformers
Authoritarians
Pro-west,
Anti west, naturalists