Glossary Term – Event
Russian government overthrown
Bolshevik socialists—soon to be known as Communists—seized power in Russia.
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Glossary Term – Event
Russian withdrawal from war
The new Bolshevik Russian government agreed to an armistice with Germany.
Glossary Term – Event
Red Scare
Fears of Bolshevism permeated the United States and led to alarmist attitudes, deportations of immigrants, vigilante violence against suspected radicals, and the ousting of Socialists from government.
Glossary Term – Organization
Bolsheviks
Bolsheviks were the dominant political power in Russia after the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party seized control of that country’s government in 1917. The Bolsheviks (“Bolshevik” meaning “one of the majority”) were anti-feudal revolutionaries who were described in the United States as radical, anti-capitalist socialists. Under the leadership of Vladimir Leninm the Bolsheviks changed their party name to the “Russian Communist Party” in 1918 (and later to the “Communist Party of the Soviet Union”). In the United States, charges...