People and Organizations

• Gorbachev, Mikhal: final head of state of the USSR, 1985-91.
• Kremlin: center of Soviet and Russian government
• Komsomol: Communist Party youth organization
• NKVD: Soviet secret police before the KGB
• Pravda: Russian for "truth," name of the Communist state-run newspaper
• Reichstag: German parliament and the building where it meets
• Sakharov, Andrei: Soviet nuclear physicist who helped develop weapons but became a prominent dissident and critic of the Communist regime
• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: Soviet writer and dissident who drew worldwide attention to the crimes of Stalin's era
• Stalin: second Soviet head of state, 1924-53; known for control through terror and mass incarceration
• Sovok: a person who believes in Soviet values, attitudes, and beliefs; used to put down those who have not moved on from old times
• Young Pioneers: Communist Party children's organization