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Bolsheviks
A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917
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Soviet
One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas II
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Totalitarianism
Government control over every aspect of public and private life
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Great Purge
A campaign of terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin sought to eliminate all Communist Party members and other citizens who threatened his power
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Command Economy
An economic system in which the government makes all economis decisions
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Five-Year Plan
Plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy
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May Fourth Movement
A nationalist protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated againt the Treaty of Varsailles and foreign interference
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Long March
A 6,000-mile journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist forces
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Rowlatt Acts
Laws passed in 1919 that allowed the British government in India to jail anti-British protesters without trail for as long as two years
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Amritsar Massacre
Killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amristar to protest the Rowlatt Acts
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Civil Disobedience
A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust
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Salt March
A peaceful protest against the Salt Acts in 1930 in India in which Mohandas Gandhi led his followers on a 240-mile walk to the sea, where they made their own salt from evaporated seawater
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Demands Loyalty
State Control of Individuals
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Police Terror
Methods of Enforcement
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Advanced Military Weapons
Modern Technology
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Buisness
State Control of Society
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Exercises Absolute Authority
Dictatorship and One-Party Rule
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Unites People
Dynamic Leader
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Sets Goals of the State
Ideology
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New Economy Policy
Plan Lenin put in place in 1921 which was a version of capitalism
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Kulaks
Wealthy class of persons who resisted the formation of collective farms
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Duma
Russia's first parliament which first met in 1906
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Indian National Congress
Hindu group formed to rid India of foreign rule
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Bloody Sunday
Provoked a wave of strikes and violence across Russian in 1905
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Ottoman
The break up of this empire helped spur the rise in nationalism in this region
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Indoctrination
Totalitarian states rely on this instruction in the government's beliefs to mold people's minds
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Nationalists
Party which massacred many members of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai in 1927
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Museum of Atheism
Opened under Stalin to show that religious beliefs were mere superstition
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Pogroms
Organized violence against Jews
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Peasant Sea
Mao reffered to his tactic of taking his revolution to the countryside as "Swimming in the..."
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Japan
Communists and Nationalist in China temporarily united to fight this common enemy
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Government of India Act
Provided local self governments and limited democratic elections, but not total independence
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Siberia
A remote region of Eastern Russia where political prisoners were sent
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