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Global ch 30 Sec 1&2
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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pogrom | organized violence against Jews in the late 19th century Russia |
Bolsheviks | A group of Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November, 1917 |
Lenin | Leader of the Bolshevik party; came to power under slogan "peace, land, bread" |
Duma | Russian parliament |
soviets | a representative counsel formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas II |
Joseph Stalin | replaced Lenin; harsh, totalitarian ruler |
totalitarianism | government control over every aspect of public and private life |
command economy | economy systems in which the government makes all of the decisions |