Terms

Terms
1. Communism is a form of socialism which advocates the violent overthrow of existing government with the goal of changing society and ultimately perfecting mankindMarxistn-Leninism Communism is also known as Marxistn- Leninism after two of its most infamous theorists, Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin.
2. Dialectical materialism that nothing but the material world existsand that material condition alone determine how a person thinks, acts, feels, and believe.
3. Bourgeoisie The middle class
Proletariat the working class
4. First International theInternational Workingmen´s Association.
5. The Russian Orthodox Churh an institution that profoundly influenced the development of Russian culture.
6. Czar Ivan the Terrible. Ivan IV, thegrandson of Ivan the Great, took the title czar.
7. Nihilists the young Russian revolutionaries who wanted to abolish government.
8. Pogroms organized massacres
Zionism a movement to create anational Jewish homeland in Palestine.
9. Duma an elected legislative body with limited powers.
10. Russo-Japanese War, a brief conflict over control of Manchuria, a province in northern China,and Korea.
11. Provisional Government resembling a Western representative democracy.
12. Mensheviks wanted a broad party membership that included socialists and liberal democrats and advocatedmore peaceful methods for social change.
Bolsheviks followed Lenin's theory of a party restricted to professional revolutionaries.
13. Soviets Although the “People´s will” supposedly filteredupward from local soviets the national "Congress of Soviets,,,
Red Guards secret military force.
14. Bolshevik Revolution successfully toppled the Provisional Government.
15. Cheka a secretpolice organization
16. White Russians who opposed the Communists.
Red Russians favored the Communists
17. Red Army Under Lenin,s direction, Leon Trotsky formed the Red Army
18. Central...