DUE FRiDAY MAY 11

-Czar-Originally, and indeed during most of its history, the title tsar meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, i.e., a ruler who has the same rank as a Roman or Byzantine emperor due to recognition by another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch).

-Socialism-refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community.

-Marxism-Any political practice or theory that is based on an interpretation of the works of Marx and Engels (including the later Communist Parties and Communist states, as well as academic research across many fields) may be termed Marxism.

-Capitalism- generally refers to an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit, and in which investments, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are determined through the operation of a market

-Communism- is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production

-Russian Revolution (1917)-
February Revolution, which resulted in the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia
October Revolution, which was the Bolshevik seizure of power
The Third Russian Revolution was the failed anarchist revolution against the Bolsheviks and the White movement 1918 - 1922

-Vladimir Lenin-was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Soviet Union, and the primary theorist of Leninism, a variant of Marxism.

-Bolsheviks-were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction

-Treaty of Brest-was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belaru) between the Russian SFSR and the Central Powers, marking Russia's exit from World War I


-Atheism-defined as a philosophical view, is the position that either affirms the nonexistence of gods[1] or rejects theism;[2]but in its broadest definition, it is the absence of belief in deities, sometimes called "nontheism"

-Comrade-is a term meaning "friend," "colleague," or "ally." The term originally carried a strong military connotation, and referred to a roommate.

-New Economic Policy (NEP)-was officially decided in the course of the 10th Congress of the All-Russian Communist Party.

-USSR-more commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991

-Joseph Stalin-was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 192 until 1953

-Red Army-were the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviksduring the Russian Civil War in 1918 and that, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union