Revolution and Transformation

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Across
  1. 8. Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, or Committee for State Security) was the primary intelligence agency, secret police, and domestic security organization of the soviet Union from 1954-1991, it functioned under the Council of Ministers as the chief government agency for internal security, foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence and political surveillance.
  2. 10. The initial period of intense political, economic and diplomatic tension between the United States and the Soviet Union immediately following World War II
  3. 11. occurs when a country, group, or media system uses propaganda, mass media, and spectacles to create an idealized, heroic, or god-like public image of a political or social leader
  4. 12. A sudden, illegal, and often violent attempt by a small group of government or military elites to overthow an incumbent sitting leader or regime; a change of power from the top down by a small faction, replacing leaders without deep societal overhaul
  5. 14. An elected local, district, or national council in the former Soviet Union
  6. 15. Secret police organizations in the Soviet Union
  7. 16. A communist political and economic ideology that combines the theories of Karl Marx with the revolutionary adaptations of Vladimir Lenin and the formalization of Joseph Stalin. It served as the official state ideology of the Soviet Unition, Its Easter Bloc satellite states, and the international communist movement throughout the 20th century.
  8. 18. The temporary government of Russia established after the abdication of Nicholas II in March 1917
  9. 20. A political theory advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
  10. 22. A system of government by one person with absolute power
  11. 23. The social and economic process where a society transforms from an agrarian (farming-based) and artisanal economy into a manufacturing based industrial society driven by mechanization and factory production
  12. 25. A faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party who ultimately came ot power during the October Revolution.
  13. 26. A series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union, beginning in 1928
Down
  1. 1. Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
  2. 2. The political, military, and ideological barrier that divided Europe into two separate regions from the end of the World War II (1945) until the end of the Cold War (1990-1991)
  3. 3. A faction of the Marxist Russian Social democratic Labour Party that opposed the Bolsheviks
  4. 4. A series of campaigns of political repression and persecutions in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin
  5. 5. The policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms carried out by the Soviet government in the late 1920s and early 1930s
  6. 6. A system of labor camps maintained in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1955 in which many people died
  7. 7. A sudden, radical, and complete change in a political system, society, science, or technology
  8. 9. A Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions
  9. 13. The title of the emperors of Russia before 1917
  10. 17. The status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to tehri attachment to the land and subservience to a lord
  11. 19. A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state
  12. 21. An economic and political system in which the major means of production such as factories, land, machinery, and natural resources are owned or controlled collectively by the public, the community, the state, or workers, rather than by private individuals or corporations
  13. 24. An armed, sustained, and organized conflict between the government of a country and one or more organized non-state groups, or between different factions, living within the same state or nation