Russian Revolution

Question 1

soviet

Answer 1

council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries

Question 2

proletariat

Answer 2

working class

Question 3

commissar

Answer 3

communist party official assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty

Question 4

command economy

Answer 4

system in which govt officials make all basic economic decisions

Question 5

collective

Answer 5

large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group

Question 6

kulak

Answer 6

wealthy peasant in the soviet union in the 1930s

Question 7

totalitarian state

Answer 7

govt in which a one party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens lives

Question 8

atheism

Answer 8

belief that there is no god

Question 9

socialist realism

Answer 9

artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing soviet life in a positive light

Question 10

communism

Answer 10

form of socialism; class struggle was inevitable and would lead to classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole

Question 11

capitalism

Answer 11

economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit

Question 12

socialism

Answer 12

system in which the people as a whole rather than private individuals own all property and operate all businesses