level: Context and key vocabulary
Questions and Answers List
level questions: Context and key vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| True Democracy | Lenin's interpretation; effectively Communist Party Dictatorship |
| Bourgeois Democracy | Western Liberal democracy (as described by Lenin) |
| Proletariat | Working class people [in relation to the theory of Marx] |
| COMINTERN | Communist International [1919-1943] advocated world communism; coordinated international communist parties. |
| Soviet | [Russian] workers council |
| Bolshevik | Russian Political Party: Seized power in the Russian revolution 1917 |
| 23rd August 1939 | Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact [Nazi-Soviet pact] non-aggressive alliance |
| 22nd June 1941 | Operation Barbarossa: Nazi invasion of Soviet Union |
| 17th September 1939 | Soviet invasion of Poland |
| Curzon line | Alleged Russian 'ethnic frontier' in Eastern Europe |