payment for war damage or damage caused by imprisonment
reparation
one who favors extreme changes
radical
system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all
collective security
after World War I, a territory administered by a Western power
mandate
working class
proletariat
council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917
soviet
government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens' lives
totalitarian state
any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist, whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights
Fascism
system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions
command economy
large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group
collective
in the Soviet Union, a system of forced labor camps in which millions of criminals and political prisoners were held under Stalin
gulag
artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light
socialist realism
Stalin's policy of imposing Russian culture on the Soviet Union
russification
belief that there is no god
atheism
Communist International, international association of communist parties led by the Soviet Union for the purpose of encouraging worldwide communist revolution
comintern
the highest official of a monarch, prime minister
chancellor
an extremely rapid and sharp rise in prices that causes money to lose value
hyperinflation
official name of the Nazi party for its regime in Germany; held power from 1933 to 1945