Pogrom - Organized violence against Jews

Proletariat - The poor working class Bolsheviks - Group that wanted an immediate, violent socialist revolution

Vladimir Lenin -Bolshevik leader, founder of Communism in Russia

Joseph Stalin – 2nd Communist leader, created a totalitarian state

Russian Revolution/ Totalitarianism - Review

Autocracy – a form of government in which the leader has all power

Jews - targeted for persecution by Czar Alexander III and Stalin

Marxists/Bolsheviks – believed the workers ( the proletariat) would overthrow the Czar and rule the country

3 crises that led to the Czar’s downfall:

- Defeat in the Russo-Japanese war

- Revolution of 1905 – Bloody Sunday massacre

- Major losses in World War I

Lenin and the Communists were supported by the radical working class

The Communists of Russia gained support by promising Land, Peace, and Bread

Communists nationalized industry – gov’t took control of MOP

Czar and his family – executed by Communists

Totalitarian state – police enforce central Gov’t’s policies

Great Purge – Stalin’s campaign of terror aimed at anyone who threatened his power

Gulag - a system of labor camps used to punish “enemies of the State”

Collectivization - Stalin confiscated peasant farms to form large, gov’t-owned farms

5-Year Plans – Stalin’s industrial plan to set quotas for the output industrial goods