Russian Revolution Glossary Flashcards
Bolshevik
Member if Lenin’s ‘hard line’ faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party
Bunt
Spontaneous peasant uprising: riot
Dvoevlastie
Dual power: used especially of the sharing of political power between the provisional government(Georgy Yevgenyevich) and the Petrograd Soviet March-October 1917
Duma
Assembly or Council: especially the State Duma, a quasi-parliamentary( ability for agencies to enact rules and regulations despite that agency not possessing the constitutional ability ) institution 1906-17
Iskra
‘The Spark’: Marxist revolutionary newspaper founded by Lenin in 1900
Khlyst
A member of self-flagellating religious sect to which Rasputin belonged
Kulak
‘A fist’: a derogatory term denoting, imprecisely, a rich peasant.
Menshevik
Minority) member of the moderate, anti-Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Narod
The people: usually referring to the narod in the 19th century
Narodnaya
The People’s Will; revolutionary terrorist group responsible for the assassination of tsar Alexander II
Narodnik
A populist: member of the populist movement
Pravda
‘Truth’: Bolshevik Party newspaper, founded in 1912
Soviet
Council: especially the Soviet of workers Deputies established first in 1090 and then again in 1917
Trudovik
Member of the Labour group, a liberal left in coalition in the state Duma
Zemstvo
Origin in rural local government established in 1864
- proposed to Alexander II to adopt a EUROPEAN STYLE CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CIVIL RIGHTS REFORMS
Fundamental laws
This helped to regain the Tsars position as supreme leader by asserting his power over the Duma by giving him sights such as the power to dissolve the Duma, change the electoral system and crush any uprising.
