Mr. Brown AP World ECHHS
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| 375168424 | soviet | council of workers; seized the government of St. Petersburg in 1917 to precipitate the Russian Revolution | 0 | |
| 375168425 | Aleksander Kerensky | liberal revolutionary leader during the early stages of the Russian Revolution of 1917; attempted development of parliamentary rule but supported continuance of the war against Germany | 1 | |
| 375168426 | Social Revolutionary Party | majority vote winners in first elections after November 1917; removed from office by Bolsheviks | 2 | |
| 375168427 | Congress of Soviets | Lenin's parliamentary institution based on soviets under Bolshevik domination; replaced the Social Revolutionary Party | 3 | |
| 375168428 | Red Army | built up under the leadership of Leon Trotsky; its victories secured communist power after the early years of turmoil following the Russian Revolution | 4 | |
| 375168429 | New Economic Policy (NEP) | initiated in 1921 by Lenin; combined the state establishing basic economic policies with individual initiative; allowed food production to recover | 5 | |
| 375168430 | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) | Russian federal system controlled by the Communist Party est. in 1923 | 6 | |
| 375168431 | Supreme Soviet | communist controlled parliament of the USSR | 7 | |
| 375168432 | Joseph Stalin | Lenin's successor as leader of the USSR; strong nationalist view of communism; crushed opposition to his predominance; ruled USSR until his death in 1953 | 8 | |
| 375168433 | collectivization | creation of large state-run farms replacing individual holdings' allowed mechanization of agriculture and more efficient control over peasants | 9 | |
| 375168434 | five-year plans | Stalin's plans to hasten Soviet industrialization; constructed massive factories for heavy industries at te expense of consumer goods | 10 | |
| 375168435 | Solidarity | Polish labor movement formed in the 1970s under Lech Walesa; challenged Soviet-dominated rule of Poland; later dominant force in independent Poland | 11 | |
| 375168436 | socialist realism | Soviet effort to replace Western in literature and the arts with works glorifying state-approved achievements by the masses | 12 | |
| 375168437 | glasnot | term meaning openness; Gorbachev policy opening the opportunity to criticize the government | 13 | |
| 375168438 | perestoika | term meaning economic restructuring; Gorbachev policy for the economic rebuilding of the USSR by allowing more private ownership and decentralized economic control | 14 |
