Unit 6 Vocab - Part 2 Flashcards
Intelligentsia
Intellectual elite
Atheist
The belief that there is no God
Patriarch
The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Pogrom
In czarist Russia, an attack on Jews carried out by government troops or officials
Socialist Realism
Realistic style of art and literature that glorified Soviet ideals and goals
Serf
Labor obliged to remain on the land where they work
Icon
Religious image, usually including a picture of Jesus, Mary, or a saint, used mainly by Orthodox Christians
Czar
Ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution
Socialism
Society based on equality in which workers would control industrial production
Cold War
Power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II
Bolshevik
A revolutionary group in Russia led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Satellite
A country controlled by another country, notably Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union by the end of World War II
Glasnost
Russian term for a new “openness,” part of the Mikhail Gorbachev’s reform plans
Russification
In nineteenth-century Russia government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and become Christian
Communism
Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
