Russian Revolution Flashcards
Totalitarian State
a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures
Socialist Realism
The theory of art, literature, and music officially sanctioned by the state in some communist countries (especially in the Soviet Union under Stalin), by which artistic work was supposed to reflect and promote the ideals of a socialist society. Only form of art that portrays the communism in a positive light
Komsomol
Youth organization to train teenagers for Communist party membership
Communism
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Command Economy
an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.
Collective
done by people acting as a group.
State owned and operated farm
Kulak
a peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor. Emerging after the emancipation of serfs in the 19th century, the kulaks resisted Stalin’s forced collectivization, but millions were arrested, exiled, or killed.
Russification
Is a form of cultural assimilation process during which non-Russian communities, voluntarily or not, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian one.
Gulag
A system of labor camps maintained in the former Soviet Union from 1930 to 1955 in which many people died.
Cheka
Emergency committee, secret police
Soviet
an elected local, district, or national council in the former Soviet Union.
Atheism
disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.
Comintern
The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International was an international communist organization that advocated world communism.
Proletariat
workers or working-class people, regarded collectively
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 of 1917.
