p Decembrists:

p Revolutionaries of the nobility who were opposed to the autocratic monarchy and serfdom. They raised an unsuccessful revolt in December 1825.

p Manilovism:

p Smug complacency, inactivity, futile daydreaming; from Majiilov, a character in Gogol’s Dead Souls.

p Icon:

p A religious image or picture of gods or saints.

p Okhrana:

p Secret political police department in tsarist Russia, formed to combat the revolutionary movement.

p Newman:

p A private manufacturer, trader, or profiteer in the early period of the New Economic Policy (NEP).

p Technical minimum:

p Minimum level of technical knowledge required of workers in Socialist industry.

p Trudoviki:

p A petty-bourgeois group formed in 1906 consisting of part of the peasant members of the First State Duma headed by Socialist-Revolutionary intellectuals.

p Borotbists:

p Left wing of the Ukrainian Social- Revolutionaries, a chauvinist nationalist party ; until 1918 they published a central organ known as Borotba.

p Zemsky Nachalnik:

p An official with police, magisterial and administrative functions appointed from the noble class.

p Zemsky Sobor:

p An assembly of representatives of the estates convened in Russia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to deliberate with the government.

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