A document published by Lenin shortly after his return to Russia from exile in 1917.
April Theses
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A system of government where all political power and sovereignty is vested in a single ruler called an autocrat (usually a king, tsar or emperor).
autocracy
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Peasant-based militias that formed during the Civil War.
Green Armies
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An abbreviated name for the Constitutional Democratic Party, a revolutionary party founded in 1905 and led by Pavel Milyukov.
Kadets
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A peasant who is wealthier than other peasants.
Kulak
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The process by which a nation or state moves from an agricultural economy to one concerned with manufacturing and industrial production.
Industrialisation
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A political system where one powerful nation conquers smaller nations, which become colonies; the imperial nation then asserts political control of the colony and/or exploits its labour and resources for profit.
Imperialism
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A term referring to the two governments that Russia had following the February Revolution.
Dual Government
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A Russian word literally meaning “council.”
Soviet
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A Bolshevik leader and one of the most prominent figures of the October Revolution.
Trotsky
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A member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and an active participant in both the provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet.
Kerensky
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Brought in to cure hemophiliac son of tsar.
Rasputin
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Capital city of Russia during World War I.
Petrograd
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Lenin's economy reform that re-established economic freedom in an attempt to build agriculture and industry.
New Economic Policy
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An anarchist-nationalist army emanating from the Ukraine, who aligned with the Bolsheviks initially but later fought against them during the Civil War.
Black Army
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A system of government where all political power and sovereignty is vested in a single ruler called an autocrat (usually a king, tsar or emperor).
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autocracy
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Peasant-based militias that formed during the Civil War.
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Card 4
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An abbreviated name for the Constitutional Democratic Party, a revolutionary party founded in 1905 and led by Pavel Milyukov.
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