Terms
1.
Provisions of Emancipation
·
cut-offs and redemption payments
2.
White émigré
·
Russians who emigrated from Russia in
the wake of the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War
·
in opposition to the comp temporary
Russian political climate
·
negative connotation
·
most left Russia from 1917-1920
·
formed organizations for the purpose
of combatting the Soviet regime
3.
Red Terror
·
a campaign of mass killings, torture,
and systematic oppression conducted by Bolshevik government shortly
after its establishment
·
officially announced on Sept 2, 1918
·
Yakov Sverdlov
4.
Cheka
·
created on Dec 20, 1917 as the first
succession of Soviet state
security organizations
·
investigated counterrevolutionary
activities
5.
Octobrist Party
·
a non-revolutionary centrist Russian
political party
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Founded in late October 1905
6.
Trudoviks
·
a moderate Labor party
7.
Cossacks
·
East Slavic people
·
members of democratic Ukraine and
Southern Russia
8.
Entente Cordial
·
series of agreements signed on April
8, 1904
·
originally between Britain and the
French Third Republic
·
later part of the Triple Entente
between Britain, France and Russia
9.
Inorodtsy
·
legal term used to refer to the
non-Slavic people of the empire
10.
Pogrom
·
An violent mob attack, usually
against Jews
·
Included Odessa pogroms, Warsaw
pogroms, Kishinev pogrom, etc.
11.
Agrarian Reform
·
a series of changes to Russia's
agricultural sector