Unit 5: Crisis and Change
Lesson C: The Revolution and Civil War in Russia
Key Terms
| Key Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| absolute monarch | government in which a king, queen, or emperor exercises unlimited powers of government |
| Bolsheviks | Russian socialists in power in Russia after the revolution in 1917 |
| capitalism | an economic system providing free choice and individual incentive for workers, investors, consumers, and business enterprises |
| command economy | an economic system in which an authority, such as the government, answers the basic economic questions of "what," "how," and "for whom" items should be produced |
| communism | a political and economic theory in which factors of production are collectively owned |
| czar | a Russian ruler |
| dynasty | series of rulers from the same family |
| Marxism | a type of socialism where all the factors of production would be owned by the people, workers would share profits, and all would be economically equal |
| proletariat | lower or lowest social class in a society; working class |
| propaganda | information used to spread a doctrine or opinion through allegations, usually from a particular country's or political party's point of view or purposes |
| soviet | elected government council that existed at the local, regional, and national levels of the Soviet Union |
| totalitarian | exercising dictatorial (authoritarian) power by government over nearly every aspect of human life |
Directions: Practice using these terms.
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