Russian Revolution VOCAB

Question 1

granting of freedom to serfs or enslaved people

Answer 1

Emancipation

Question 2

war fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and Turks from 1853–1856

Answer 2

Crimean War

Question 3

a person appointed by government to advise on and coordinate policy in a particular area; an emperor of Russia before 1917

Answer 3

Czar (Tzar)

Question 4

economy in which the central government makes all basic economic decisions

Answer 4

Command Economy

Question 5

a peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor

Answer 5

Kulaks

Question 6

large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group

Answer 6

Collective

Question 7

in the Soviet Union, a system of forced labor camps in which millions of criminals and political prisoners were held under Stalin

Answer 7

Gulag

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Socialist realism

Question 9

Stalin’s policy of imposing Russian culture on the Soviet Union

Answer 9

Russification

Question 10

an effort by Stalin to eliminate challenge from past and potential opposition groups, including the left and right wings led

Answer 10

The Great Purge