Key Terms

Question 1

proletariat

Answer 1

a term used to denote the industrial workers

Question 2

bourgeoisie

Answer 2

the owners of factories, industries and shops

Question 3

dictatorship of the proletariat

Answer 3

a government that rules on behalf of the working class

Question 4

constituent assembly

Answer 4

a parliament elected by the people of russia

Question 5

whites

Answer 5

a largely conservative group opposed to the bolsheviks

Question 6

reds

Answer 6

the bolsheviks and their supporters

Question 7

kronstadt mutiny 1921

Answer 7

the mutiny of soldiers stationed at the kronstadt naval base against the imposition of orders on the local soviet from the bolshevik government

Question 8

tambov rising 1920-21

Answer 8

a peasant uprising that was sparked by the arrival of bolshevik units to requisition grain for use in the cities and army

Question 9

trade union

Answer 9

an organisation that represented workers interests according to trade

Question 10

factory committee

Answer 10

a small group that represented workers within a particular factory

Question 11

nomenklatura system

Answer 11

a system of appointing people to jobs from a list approved by party leadership

Question 12

ogpu

Answer 12

the all-union state political administration

Question 13

chistka

Answer 13

term for cleansing that was usually applied to the purges of party members under lenin

Question 14

black marketeer

Answer 14

those who sold goods illegally at inflated prices

Question 15

right opposition

Answer 15

those in the communist party who wished to see the continuation of the nep rather than stalins forced industrialisation under the five year plans

Question 16

socialism in one country

Answer 16

stalins policy of modernisation through industrialisation by utilising the resources of the soviet union

Question 17

the great purge

Answer 17

the term used to describe the terror that stalin used to remove his enemies

Question 18

left opposition

Answer 18

those in the party who had supported the call for permanent revolution in the 20s

Question 19

show trial

Answer 19

public trials of leading enemies of the state

Question 20

kulak

Answer 20

a group of peasants who owned their own farm, usually a smallholding

Question 21

gosplan

Answer 21

an organisation that was given the task of planning the industrialisation of the ussr under the five year plans

Question 22

commissar

Answer 22

a top government official in charge of a specific area or policy

Question 23

socialist legality

Answer 23

the principle that the action of the government and party organisations were subject to the law

Question 24

trust in cadres

Answer 24

a reference to brezhnevs principle of letting party members get on with their job without interference

Question 25

oligarchy

Answer 25

rule by a small elite who govern in their own interests