1. Communism
Form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx, according to Marx, class struggle was inevitable and would lead to the creation of a classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole

2. Socialism
System in which the people as a whole rather than private individuals own all property and operate all businesses

3. Capitalism
Economic system in which the means of the production are privately owned and operated for profit

4. Chapter 15 Section 1

5. Duma
An elected national legislature

6. serf
In medieval Europe, a peasant bound to the lords land

7. Proletariat
Working class

8. Hemophilia
A disease where your blood will not clot

9. Soviets
A council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries

10. Commissars
Communist party official assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty

11. Gregory Rasputin
Nicholas II wife, Alexandra, relied quite heavily on him while Nicholas was off at war
Called the “holy man”
He helped ease the suffering of Nicholas II and Alexandra’s son, who had hemophilia
Russian nobles killed Rasputin
How?

12. Vladimir Lenin His brother was hanged for plotting to kill the czar
Therefore Lenin hated the Czarist country
Supported Marxist ideas
Because of this he was exiled to Siberia
Leader of the Bolsheviks

13. Bolsheviks
Means majority
Lead by Lenin
Eventually renamed Communists

14. Karl Marx Wrote the Communist Manifesto
Said there will always be a conflict between the working class and the business owners
Predicted that the industrial working class would overthrow the capitalist ideas

15. Red Guards
Armed factory workers

16. “Reds”
Known as the Communist during the Russian Civil War

17. “Whites”
Known as the counterrevolutionaries during the Russian Civil War