Keywords

Question 1

Industrial revolution

Answer 1

The change from industry organised largely through small workshops of craft works to a system based on factory production using machines

Question 2

Marx’s ideas

Answer 2

Karl Marxs idea that he industrial workers should seize power from the people who owned factories, businesses and land.

Question 3

New economic policy

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The policy introduced in 1921 to restore the economy after the civil war.

Question 4

Proletariat

Answer 4

A term used by Karl Marc to denote the industrial workers, a new class that had emerged as a result of the industrial revolution.

Question 5

Bourgeoisie

Answer 5

The owners of factories, industries and shops which are those who own the means of production.

Question 6

Dictatorship of the proletariat

Answer 6

A government that rules on behalf of the working class.

Question 7

Constituent assembly

Answer 7

A prominent elected by the people of Russia.

Question 8

Whites

Answer 8

Those opposed to the bolsheviks during the civil war of 1918-20.

Question 9

Reds

Answer 9

The bolsheviks and their supporters.

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Trade union

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An organisation that represented workers interests according to trade.

Question 11

Factory committee

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A small group that represented workers within a particular factory and often contained workers of different trades but who were based in the same workplace.

Question 12

Bureaucracy

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The civil service (administrators) who administer government policies.

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Nomenklatura system

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A system of appointing people to jobs from a list approved by the Party Leadership.

Question 14

USSR

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The initials of the union of soviet socialist republicsX the official name of the area controlled by the community’s party. Also referred to as the Soviet Union.

Question 15

OGPU

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The all union state political administration (briefly known as the GPU) and the Cheka.

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Chistka

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Russian term for cleansing. Usually applied to the purges of party members by Lenin.

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Black marketeer

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Those who sold goods illegally, often at inflated prices.

Question 18

Right opposition

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Those in the Communist party who wished to see the continuation of the NEP rather than Stalin’s forced industrialisation of the USSR under the first five year plan.

Question 19

Socialism in one country

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Stalin’s policy of modernisation through industrialisation by utilising the resources of the Soviet Union.

Question 20

The great purge

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The term used to describe the wave of terror that Stalin and his supporters used to remove enemies.

Question 21

Left opposition

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Those in the Party who had supported the call for permanent revolution in the 1920s.

Question 22

Show trial

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Public trials of leaving enemies of the state. They were often filmed so they could be used as propaganda.

Question 23

kulak

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A group of peasants who owned their own farm usually a small holding .

Question 24

God plan

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The state planning authority, an organisation that was run by the Communist party. It planned the industrialisation of the USSR under he five year plans.

Question 25

Commissar

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A top government official, in charge of a specific area of policy.

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Socialist legality

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The principle that the action of the government and party organisations was subject to the law.

Question 27

Trust in cadres

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A reference to brehnevs principle of letting party members (cadres) who served in official posts at all levels get on with their job without interference.

Question 28

Oligarchy

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Rule by a small elite who govern in their own interests.