Russian Vocabulary

Question 0

Conscription

Answer 0

A military draft.

Question 1

Militarism

Answer 1

Creating a culture with reliance on military strength.

Question 2

Mobilization

Answer 2

The process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war.

Question 3

Alliance

Answer 3

A formal agreement between two or more nations.

Question 4

Imperialism

Answer 4

The extension of a nation’s power over other lands.

Question 5

Nationalism

Answer 5

The unique cultural identity of a people based on common language, religion, national symbols (flags), etc.

Question 6

Stateless Nationalists

Answer 6

Groups with strong common cultural identity who live in a certain area or country.

Question 7

Assassination

Answer 7

When someone of political importance is killed.

Question 8

Total War

Answer 8

A complete mobilization (prepared) of resources and people.

Question 9

Censorship

Answer 9

Government control of speech and the press.

Question 10

Propaganda

Answer 10

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. (Advertising to support causes)

Question 11

Genocide

Answer 11

Mass killing of a specific group of people, usually based on race, religion, or ethnicity.

Question 12

Stalemate

Answer 12

Neither side could get an advantage.

Question 13

Pogrom

Answer 13

An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group.

Question 14

Strike

Answer 14

Workers refuse to work. The purpose of the strike to gain better working conditions, pay, etc.

Question 15

Soviet

Answer 15

Councils of people made up of representatives from workers and soldiers.

Question 16

Socialism

Answer 16

An economic system where the workers share ownership of the means of production (workers take ownership of the capitalists)

Question 17

Bourgeoise

Answer 17

The middle class & upper class: Capitalists, merchants, traders, nobles.

Question 18

Proletariat

Answer 18

The lower class, workers.

Question 19

Communism

Answer 19

Everything is shared equally; no class system.

Question 20

Exile

Answer 20

People banished from their native land.

Question 21

Revolution

Answer 21

A forcible overthrow of a government or social order for a new system.

Question 22

Self-determination

Answer 22

The right of each people to chose and have its own nation.