Russia - Key words

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Russian Peasantry
Agricultural workers, who made up over 80% of the population
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Urban Workers
Factory workers who, while compromising only four percent of the population, were economically and poilitically significant
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Class Struggle
A continuing conflict at every stage of history between those who possessed economic and political power and those who did not, the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'
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Dialect
The dynamic force that drives the class struggle forward
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Bourgeoisie
The owners of capital, the boss class, who exploited the workers but who would be overthrown by them in the revolution to come
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Proletariat
The exploited industrial workers who would triumph in the last great class struggle
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Factory workers who, while compromising only four percent of the population, were economically and poilitically significant

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Urban Workers

Card 3

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A continuing conflict at every stage of history between those who possessed economic and political power and those who did not, the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'

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Card 4

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The dynamic force that drives the class struggle forward

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Card 5

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The owners of capital, the boss class, who exploited the workers but who would be overthrown by them in the revolution to come

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