Russias Past Flashcards
(15 cards)
According to marx- class of individual workers
Proletariat
Group or class, as a cultural or political elite
Intelligentsia
Unreasonable suspicion of others
Paranoia
From ‘Caesar’
Russia’s emperor, sometimes spelled like czar
Tsar
Radical populist agitators or late 19-century russia
Narodniki
Elected local, district, or natural council
Soviet
Period of armed tension + competition with u.s.
Cold war
Absolute rule of person in a centralized state
Autocracy
Tsarist secret police
Okhrana
Provisional
Arranged or exists for the present, possibly to be changed later
Captial goods
Consumer goods
Implements used to make other things
Things people use: food, houses ecc
Imperalism
Powerful countries turning other lands into colonies
Anarchism
Radical ideology seeking to overthrow all conventional forms of government
Stalins cleansing of suspicious or unwanted elements by firing squad
Purge
Nepmen
Buisness people in young soviet union, took advantage of the opertunities for private trade + small manifactuaring created by the new economic policy (nep)