Russian Revolution Vocabulary

Capitalism

•Private industries competed for profit with little or no government regulation.

Socialism

•Resources are distributed equally by the government to create a classless society.

Communism

•Was a system in which there was a classless society without any government, just a leader that would dictate all aspects of life.

Totalitarian

• Is a form of government, which a one party dictatorship attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of citizens.

Duma

•Parliament in Russia.

Bolshevik

•Radical faction of Russian communists led by Lenin

Abdicate

•Renounce, give up, one's throne

Collectivization

•Land pooled into large farms on which people work together as a group