This slide show is of basic vocab that might be unfamiliar to 9th graders but will come up frequently during the Russian Revolution Unit. It is accompanied by a fill-in worksheet that students can use during the slide show to take notes.

1. VOCAB for RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

2. Government
• An organized group that
makes laws for the
people under it.

3. Revolution
• Where a group of
people overthrow a
government

4. Bourgeois
• Pronounced Boor zhwah
• A middleclass person who
is concerned with
obtaining materialistic
things

5. Proletariat
• The lowest social class
• The workers who earn
their money by manual
labor.
• People who do not own
property or valuable
items.

6. • Concerned with getting
Materialistic physical things of value.
• Thinking your value
comes from having
stuff.
– money
– Houses
– Jewelry
– Cars
– Sneakers
– Electronics
– Purses
– Jewelry
– Cell phones
– Designer clothing

7. Socialism
• An idea that the
ownership and
production of stuff
should be done by the
community as a whole
and distributed equally
to everyone.
• Everyone does their
part and then gets an
equal part.

8. Capitalism
• Each person can work
as hard as they want
and you will get
rewards based on how
hard you work.
• Rags to riches dream
Donald Driver

9. Communism
• A system of government
where all property and
things of value are owned
by the community as a
whole.
• Each person works for the
central government.
• Each person is given what
they need to live.
• Everyone gets an equal
share.

10. Bolshevik
• A member of the
communist party

11. Economic
• Something that has to do
with the use of money.
• Socio-economic means that
your place in SOCIETY is
based on how much money
you make.
• Economic security means
you know you have enough
money.
• Economic prosperity means
you are making a lot of
money.

12. Marxism
• A system of economic
and political thought
based around the ideas
of Karl Marx
• The idea that there is a
class struggle between
the poor and the rich.

13. Class warfare
• The struggle between
the different social
classes
– poor and rich
– capitalists and workers
• An idea based in
Marxist theory.

14. The Communist Manifesto
• A book written by Karl
Marx and Friedrich
Engels.
• It talks about the class
struggle.
• It talks about Marxist
beliefs.

15. Equality
• Everyone being treated
exactly the same.
• Economic equality
means everyone makes
the same money.
• Social equality means
everyone is equally
important.

16. Centralized Government
• where the power of the
government is in the
center and departments
are created to handle
certain problems.

17. Monarchy
• A country where the
person in charge is a
king or queen.
• Control of the country is
held by 1 single person.
• Monarch means “ruler”

18. Tsar (pronounced Zar)
• Tsar is another word for
– King
– Monarch
– Ruler
Tsar is the Russian word
for king

19. Abdicate
• To give up the right to
rule as a king or
monarch.
• The king abdicated
means the king says
he will not longer be
king.
• If a king is forced to
abdicate it means they
MAKE him say he
won’t be king
anymore.

20. Industrial
• Producing items in
factories.
• Industrial jobs are jobs in
factories
• There are different kinds of
industry
– Steel industry makes steel in
factories
– Automobile industry makes
automobiles in factories
– Shoe industry makes shoes
in factories

21. Agriculture
• Anything having to do
with planting crops or
raising livestock.
• Farming

22. Hammer and Sickle
• The Hammer and Sickle
is part of communist
symbolism.
• It represents the
Hammer of
industrialization and the
Sickle of agriculture.

24. Comrade
• Means “friend”
• Someone who you
share activities with and
are equal to.

25. Suppress
• To force a person to
stop certain activities.