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4229802527Russian Revolution (1917)Russian Revolution definition. A revolution in Russia in 1917-1918, also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks, a Communist party led by Lenin, to power.0
4229802528Bolsheviks/Lenina member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917.1
4229802529GuomindangThe Communist Party of China still treats Sun Yat-sen as one of the founders of their movement. But Sun Yat-sen was suffering from cancer and died in 1925. After a bit Chiang Kai Shek emerged as leader of the leftwing of the Guomindang Party.2
4229802530Mao ZedongMao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed3
4229802531Chinese RevolutionThe Chinese Communist Revolution or The 1949 Revolution was the culmination of the Chinese Communist Party's drive to power since its founding in 1921 and the second part of Chinese Civil War.4
4229802532StalinJoseph Stalin or losif Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.5
4229802533Building SocialismA structure with a roof and walls, such as a house, school, store, or factory.6
4229802534ZhenotdelThe Zhenotdel, the women's department of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist party devoted to women's affairs in the 1920s7
4229802535CollectivizationCollectivization in the Soviet Union was enforced under Stalin between 1928 and 1940. The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms: mainly kolkhozy and sovkhozy.8
4229802536Cultural RevolutionThe Cultural Revolution was a chaotic mass movement in the People's Republic of China. Mao Zedong launched it in 1966, claiming that elitists were undermining the government and Chinese society.9
4229802537Great Purges/TerrorThe Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.10
4229802538Anna DubovaRussian Peasant Girl and urban women11
4229802539Cuban Missile CrisisCuban missile crisis definition. A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the "hottest" periods of the cold war.12
4229802540Nikita KhrushchevNikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.13
4229802541Deng XiaopingDeng Xiaoping; 22 August 1904 - 19 February 1997 was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman. He was the leader of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992.14
4229802542Perestroika/GlasnostPerestroika and Glasnost. When Mikhail S. Gorbachev stepped onto the world stage in March 1985 as the new leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, it was immediately clear that he was different from his predecessors.15

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