A growing list of terms including people, places, organizations, etc. relating to Marxism, history, science, philosophy, and the struggle for socialism in general.  Terms specific to a particular country or person have the name in parenthesis.  Send us your suggestions! 

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O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

A

• Agnosticism

• Anarcho-syndicalism

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B

• Bebel, August (Germany)

• Bernstein, Eduard (Germany)

• Von Bismarck, Otto (Germany)

• Black Hundreds (Russia)

• Blanquism (Blanqui)

• Bogdanov, A.A. (Russia)

• Bolsheviks / Bolshevik Party (Russia)

• Bonapartism

• Bourgeoisie

• Bukharin, Nikolai (Russia)

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C

• Capitalist - see Bourgeoisie

• Chartism

• Churchill, Winston (Britain)

• Communist International / Comintern - see Third International

• Communist League - see First International

• Compradors

• Connolly, James (Ireland)

• Cossacks (Russia)

• Criticism (Kant)

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D

• Dawes Plan (Germany)

• Defensism

• Determinism

• Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher (German-French Yearbooks)

• Dialectics/Dialectical Materialism

• Die Neue Rheinische Zeitung (New Rhenish Gazette)

• Dogma

• Dual Power

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E

• Eclecticism

• Economism

• Emancipation of Labor Group (Russia)

• Emmanuel III, Victor (Italy)

• Empiricism

• Engels, Frederick

• Epigones

• Eugenics

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F

• Fabianism / Fabians

• First International

• Freikorps (Germany)

• French Revolution of 1789 (France)

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G

• Ghandi, Mohandas

• Girondists / The Gironde (France)

• Goldman, Emma (USA, Russia)

• Gorky, Maxim (Russia)

• Gosplan (Russia)

• The Gotha Program (Germany)

• Gradualism

• Gramsci, Antonio

• Guevara, Ernesto 'Che'

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H

• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

• Hegelians - the 'Left Hegelians' or 'Young Hegelians'

• Hill, Joe (Sweden, USA)

• Von Hindenberg, Paul (Germany)

• Hitler, Adolph

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I

• IWW / Industrial Workers of the World / The Wobblies (USA)

• Izvestia (Russia)

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J

• Jacobins (France)

• Jogiches, Leo (Poland, Germany)

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K

• Kai-shek, Chiang

• Kapp Putsch (Germany)

• Kautsky, Karl (Germany)

• Kerensky, Alexander (Russia)

• Kornilov, Lavr (Russia)

• KPD (Germany)

• Kun, Bela (Hungary, Russia)

• Kuomintang / People's Party (China)

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L

• LaFollette, Robert (USA)
  
• Lassalle, Ferdinand (Germany)

• The Left Opposition (Bolshevik- Leninists)

• Left Social Revolutionaries (Russia)

• Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

• Liebknecht, Karl  (Germany)

• Liebknecht, Wilhelm (Germany)

• Logical Positivists

• Louis Bonaparte - see Napoleon III (France)

• Lumpenproletariat

• Luxemburg, Rosa (Poland, Germany)

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M

• Machiavelli, Niccolo (Italy)

• Malthusian Theory (Thomas Malthus)

• Martov, Julius (Russia)

• Marx, Karl

• Marxism

• Mensheviks  (Russia)

• Metaphysics

• Mezharontsi (Inter-District Organization) (Russia)

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N

• Napoleon III / Louis Bonaparte (France)

• Narodniks / Narodnism (Russia)

• NEP - New Economic Policy (Russia)

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P

• Palace Revolution

• Parvus, A.L. (Russia, Germany)

• Petty or Petit Bourgeoisie

• Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich (Russia)

• Pogrom

• Politburo (Russia)

• Political Strike

• Positivism 

• Proletariat

• Proudhonism (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon)

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R

• Rabkrin (Russia)

• Radek, Karl (Poland, Germany, Russia)

• Rasputin, Gregory (Russia)

• Reed, John (USA, Russia)

• Reichswehr (Germany)

• Rheinische Zeitung fur Politik, Handel und Gewerb  (Rhenish Gazette on Politics, Trade and Manufacture)

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S

• SA / Sturmabteilung   (Germany)

• Second International

• Smith, Adam  (Britain)

• Socialism in One Country

• Social Revolutionaries (Russia)

• Soviet (Russia)

• Spartacus League / Spartacists (Germany)

• SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany)

• SS / Schutzstaffel (Germany)

• Stalin, Joseph (Russia)

• Syllogism

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T

• Thermidor

• Third International (The Communist International / Comintern)

• Trotsky, Leon (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)

• Tse-tung, Mao - see Zedong, Mao (China)

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U

• USPD / Independent Social Democratic Party (Germany)

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W

• War Communism (Russia)

• Wei, Wang Chin (China)

• The Wobblies - see the IWW

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Y

• Yudenich, N. (Russia)

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Z

• Zedong, Mao / Tse-Tung (China)

• Zimmerwaldists / Zimmerwald

• Zinoviev, Grigory (Russia)

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