A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917
Soviet
One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas II
Totalitarianism
Government control over every aspect of public and private life
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
Command Economy
An economic system in which the government makes all economis decisions
Five-Year Plan
Plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy
May Fourth Movement
A nationalist protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated againt the Treaty of Varsailles and foreign interference
Long March
A 6,000-mile journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist forces
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
Amritsar Massacre
Killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amristar to protest the Rowlatt Acts
Civil Disobedience
A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust
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
Demands Loyalty
State Control of Individuals
Police Terror
Methods of Enforcement
Advanced Military Weapons
Modern Technology
Buisness
State Control of Society
Exercises Absolute Authority
Dictatorship and One-Party Rule
Unites People
Dynamic Leader
Sets Goals of the State
Ideology
New Economy Policy
Plan Lenin put in place in 1921 which was a version of capitalism
Kulaks
Wealthy class of persons who resisted the formation of collective farms
Duma
Russia's first parliament which first met in 1906
Indian National Congress
Hindu group formed to rid India of foreign rule
Bloody Sunday
Provoked a wave of strikes and violence across Russian in 1905
Ottoman
The break up of this empire helped spur the rise in nationalism in this region
Indoctrination
Totalitarian states rely on this instruction in the government's beliefs to mold people's minds
Nationalists
Party which massacred many members of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai in 1927
Museum of Atheism
Opened under Stalin to show that religious beliefs were mere superstition
Pogroms
Organized violence against Jews
Peasant Sea
Mao reffered to his tactic of taking his revolution to the countryside as "Swimming in the..."
Japan
Communists and Nationalist in China temporarily united to fight this common enemy
Government of India Act
Provided local self governments and limited democratic elections, but not total independence
Siberia
A remote region of Eastern Russia where political prisoners were sent