Lenin dies; Stalin emerges as a party leader; rival Leon Trotsky is dismissed
1924
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The Great Purge or The Great Terror, in which around 1 million political rivals etc killed
1936-1938
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Second World War takes place
1939-1945
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Leon Trotsky is murdered
1940
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Animal Farm finally published
1945
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A political and economic theory of social organisation which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community rather than individuals or government.
Communism
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A system in which members of an organisation or society are ranked according to relative status or authority
Hierarchy
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Teaching someone to accept a set of beliefs without thinking
Indocrination
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The deliberate act of making things less clear
Obfuscation
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A theory or system of social organisation which advocates for a fair distribution of wealth and power in society, by redistributing the means of production, overseen by the state. It is an end in itself or a transition to communism
Socialism
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A system of government that is centralised and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state
Totalitarianism
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An imagined perfect place or society.
Utopia
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Radical German thinker who wrote 'The Communist Manifesto' with Engels
Karl Marx
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General Secretary of the Bolshevik party who assumed leadership of the Communist Party after Lenin's death
Joseph Stalin
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Masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917, and was the architect and first head of the USSR
Vladimir Lenin
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Key figure in the October revolution, Trotsky lost out to Stalin in the battle for power in Russia
Leon Trotsky
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Nicholas II was the last Tsar of Russia. He was deposed during the Russian Revolution and executed by the Bolsheviks
Tsar Nicholas II
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Russian Broadsheet newspaper, used for Soviet propaganda
Pravda
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Meaning 'one of the majority', this was a section of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers led by Lenin.
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