Section 1: The Growth of Industrial Property
Vocabulary:
Bourgeoisie: The middle class including merchants, industrialist, and professional people.
Proletariat: The working class.
Dictatorship: A form of government in which one person or small group has absolute power.
Revisionist: A Marxist who declined the revolutionary approach, instead believing in evolution by democratic means to achieve the goal of socialism.
Section 2: The Emergence of Mass Society
Vocabulary:
Feminism: The movement for women's rights.
Literacy: The ability to read.
Section 3: The National State and Democracy
Vocabulary:
Ministerial responsibility: The idea that the prime minister is responsible to the popularly elected executive body and not to the executive officer.
Duma: The Russian legislative assembly.
Section 4: Toward the Modern Consciousness
Vocabulary:
Psychoanalysis: A method by which a therapist and patient probe deeply into patient's memory.
Pogrom: Organized persecution or massacre of a minority group, especially Jews.
Modernism: A movement in which writers and artists rebelled against the traditional literary and artistic styles that had took in over European cultural life since the Renaissance.