Russian Revolution Vocabulary

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Vocabulary Mr. McElhaney \ World History 12-13 \ Russian Rev_Vocab.1213.MASTER.docx \ 3/30/2015 4:24:00 PM

Directions: Match each term in the word bank with the correct definition below.

Proletariat U.S.S.R. Politburo March Revolution Soviet Bolshevik Menshevik NKVD Provisional Government Kremlin Whites Duma Supreme Soviet October Revolution Kulak Gulag

1. Proletariat Wage-earning working class 2. Bolshevik Marxists, wanted to start a revolution without waiting for stronger proletariat 3. Menshevik Marxists, said socialist revolution had to wait until proletariat was more powerful 4. Soviet Representative Council 5. Duma Russian parliament 6. March Strike in Petrograd; Duma disobeys Czar; he can’t regain control, abdicates Revolution 7. Provisional Set up by Duma after March Revolution, led by Kerensky, parliamentary- Government style (democratic republic) government 8. October Bolshevik or Communist Revolution, led by Lenin, started Russian Civil War Revolution 9. Whites Anti-Communist forces, fought “Reds” (communists) during Russian Revolution 10. NKVD Communist secret police (1917–1946) 11. U.S.S.R. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a.k.a. the Soviet Union), started in 1922 12. Kremlin Old palace-fortress in Moscow, served as seat of Communist government 13. Politburo Communist party leaders, controlled the Party and Soviet government 14. Supreme National legislature of the USSR Soviet 15. Kulak Prosperous farmer 16. Gulag Forced-labor camp

Russian Revolution People

Directions: Match each name in the bank with the correct match below.

Alexander Kerensky Vladimir Lenin Grigori Rasputin Karl Marx Leon Trotsky Czar Nicholas II Josef Stalin

1. Czar Nicholas II Absolute Monarch, “Czar of all the Russias” 2. Grigori Strange, smelly “monk”, influential with Royal family because he could Rasputin temporarily “heal” Alexei’s hemophilia 3. Alexander Leader of short-lived Provisional Government Kerensky 4. Karl Marx Wrote Communist Manifesto, inspired Lenin and others to push for revolution 5. Vladimir Lenin Bolshevik leader, returned from exile in 1917 to stir up a communist revolution 6. Leon Trotsky Bolshevik, wanted world-wide communist revolution, after Lenin died hunted by Stalin 7. Josef Stalin Bolshevik, after Lenin died, went on a series of “purges” to gain control of U.S.S.R.