Vocabulary
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| 6249692657 | Russian Revolution | Massive revolutionary upheaval in 1917 that overthrew the Romanov dynasty in Russia and ended with the seizure of power by Bolsheviks under the leadership of Lenin. Created the USSR 1917-1991 | 0 | |
| 6249692658 | Bolsheviks | Russian revolutionary party led by Vladimir Lenin and later renamed the Communist Party; its name means "the majority" | 1 | |
| 6249692659 | Lenin | Adopted name of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924), the main leader of Russia's communist revolution and head of the Soviet state from 1917 until his death. | 2 | |
| 6249692660 | Guomindang | the Chinese Nationalist Party led by Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 until its overthrow by the communists in 1949 | 3 | |
| 6249692661 | Chinese Revolution | Long revolutionary process in the period 1912-1949 that began with the overthrow of the Chinese imperial system and ended with the triumph of the Communist Party under the leadership of Mao Zedong. | 4 | |
| 6249692662 | Mao Zedong | chairman of China's Communist Party and de facto ruler of China from 1949 until his death in 1976 | 5 | |
| 6249692663 | building socialism | Euphemistic expression for the often-forcible transformation of society when a communist regime came to power in a state. | 6 | |
| 6249692664 | Stalin | Name assumed by Joseph Vissarionovich Jugashvili (1878-1953), leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death; "Stalin" means "made of steel." | 7 | |
| 6249692665 | Zhenotdel | Women's Department of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1930; Zhenotdel worked strongly to promote equality for women | 8 | |
| 6249692666 | collectivization | Process of rural reform undertaken by the communist leadership of both the USSR and China in which private property rights were abolished and peasants/workers were forced onto larger and more industrialized farms/factories to work and share the proceeds as a community rather than as individuals, usually resulted in lower production. | 9 | |
| 6249692667 | Cultural Revolution | China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a massive campaign launched by Mao Zedong in the mid-1960s to combat the capitalist tendencies that he believed reached into even the highest ranks of the Communist Party; the campaign threw China into chaos. | 10 | |
| 6249692668 | Great Purges/ Terror | Also called the Terror, the Great Purges of the late 1930s were a massive attempt to cleanse the Soviet Union of supposed "enemies of the people"; nearly a million people were executed between 1936 and 1941, and 4 million or 5 million more were sentenced to forced labor in the gulag. | 11 | |
| 6249692669 | Cuban missile crisis | major standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba; the confrontation ended in compromise, with the USSR removing its missiles in exchange for the United States agreeing not to invade Cuba | 12 | |
| 6249692670 | Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. | 13 | |
| 6249692671 | Mikhail Gorbachev | leader of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991 whose efforts to reform the USSR led to its collapse | 14 | |
| 6249692672 | Deng Xiaoping | Leader of China from 1976 to 1997 whose reforms beginning in 1979 essentially dismantled the communist elements of the Chinese economy, while retaining authoritarian controls over the political and social structures of China. | 15 | |
| 6249692673 | perestrokia | Bold economic plan launched in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev with the intention of freeing up Soviet industry and businesses. | 16 | |
| 6249692674 | glasnost | Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of "openness," which allowed greater cultural and intellectual freedom and ended most censorship of the media; the result was a burst of awareness of the problems and corruption of the Soviet system. | 17 |
