Key Terms Flashcards
proletariat
a term used to denote the industrial workers
bourgeoisie
the owners of factories, industries and shops
dictatorship of the proletariat
a government that rules on behalf of the working class
constituent assembly
a parliament elected by the people of russia
whites
a largely conservative group opposed to the bolsheviks
reds
the bolsheviks and their supporters
kronstadt mutiny 1921
the mutiny of soldiers stationed at the kronstadt naval base against the imposition of orders on the local soviet from the bolshevik government
tambov rising 1920-21
a peasant uprising that was sparked by the arrival of bolshevik units to requisition grain for use in the cities and army
trade union
an organisation that represented workers interests according to trade
factory committee
a small group that represented workers within a particular factory
nomenklatura system
a system of appointing people to jobs from a list approved by party leadership
ogpu
the all-union state political administration
chistka
term for cleansing that was usually applied to the purges of party members under lenin
black marketeer
those who sold goods illegally at inflated prices
right opposition
those in the communist party who wished to see the continuation of the nep rather than stalins forced industrialisation under the five year plans
socialism in one country
stalins policy of modernisation through industrialisation by utilising the resources of the soviet union
the great purge
the term used to describe the terror that stalin used to remove his enemies
left opposition
those in the party who had supported the call for permanent revolution in the 20s
show trial
public trials of leading enemies of the state
kulak
a group of peasants who owned their own farm, usually a smallholding
gosplan
an organisation that was given the task of planning the industrialisation of the ussr under the five year plans
commissar
a top government official in charge of a specific area or policy
socialist legality
the principle that the action of the government and party organisations were subject to the law
trust in cadres
a reference to brezhnevs principle of letting party members get on with their job without interference
