definitions- Stalin?

Question

I am unable to find these terms in my dictionary. I looked on the internet, but the definitions I found I really don't understand! So if you could give me a definition of these terms that dumb people (like me) could understand... thankyou!

Autocratic
Bolshevik
Communist
Deportation
Kulak
Labour Camp
October Revolution
Political Prisioner
Provisional Government

Answer 1

Autocratic
Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism.
A country or state that is governed by a single person with unlimited power.

Bolshevik
A member of the left-wing majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party that adopted Lenin's theses on party organization in 1903.
A member of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party that seized power in that country in November 1917.

Communist
A member of a Marxist-Leninist party.
A supporter of such a party or movement.

Deportation
The act or an instance of deporting.
Expulsion of an undesirable alien from a country.

Kulak
A prosperous landed peasant in czarist Russia, characterized by the Communists during the October Revolution as an exploiter.

Labour Camp
A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are engaged in penal labor. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons.

October Revolution
During the October 1917 Russian Revolution, the liberal, western-oriented Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky, which was established following the February 1917 Russian Revolution that overthrew Tsar Nicholas II, was removed and replaced by the first Soviet government headed by Vladimir Lenin.

Political Prisioner
someone who is imprisoned because of their political views

Provisional Government
The Provisional Government is most often remembered for its weakness and its inability to prevent the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 or to manage the mass movements that ensured the victory of Vladmir Lenin.

Answer 2

Autocratic: single ruler

Bolshevik: A member of the left-wing majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party that adopted Lenin's theses on party organization in 1903 and later seized power in 1917

Communist: one who supports communism as a form of government

Deportation: expulsion from a country

Kulak: a prosperous, land-owning peasant in pre-communist Russia

Labour Camp: a dentention camp where the inmates are forced to perform penal labor

October Revolution: During the October 1917 Russian Revolution, the liberal, western-oriented Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky, which was established following the February 1917 Russian Revolution that overthrew Tsar Nicholas II, was removed and replaced by the first Soviet government headed by Vladimir Lenin. The October Revolution began in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), then the capital of Russia, and quickly spread to the rest of the country. One of the seminal events of the twentieth century in terms of its worldwide historical impact, the October Revolution is also one of the most controversial and hotly debated historical events in modern times.

Most western historians, especially at the height of the Cold War, viewed the October Revolution as a brilliantly organized military coup d'état without significant popular support, carried out by a tightly knit band of professional revolutionaries brilliantly led by the fanatical Lenin. This interpretation, severely undermined by western "revisionist" social history in the 1970s and 1980s, was rejuvenated after the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of the Gorbachev era, even though information from newly declassified Soviet archives reinforced the revisionist view. At the other end of the political spectrum, for nearly eighty years Soviet historians, bound by strict historical canons designed to legitimate the Soviet state and its leadership, depicted the October Revolution as a broadly popular uprising of the revolutionary Russian masses. According to them, this social upheaval was deeply rooted in Imperial Russia's historical development and shaped by universal laws of history as formulated by Karl Marx and Lenin. There are kernels of truth and considerable distortion in both of these interpretations.

Political Prisioner: person imprisoned for espousing political views which clash with the official government

Provisional Government: a government in power: try this link -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Provisional_Government%2C_1917

Answer 3

First, correct your spelling:
Gulag
Prisoner

Next, look up one definition; for each word in that definition you don't understand,,look that word up, too. Write down what appears to be the appropriate definition choice and plug it into what you have already.. Just keep doing that.

That should help.

Answer 4

Tsk! Too lazy to do your homework? : P

Ok, I'll bite...: D

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