Question

Match the vocabulary word with its meaning. 1. chattel the middle class 2. Bolshevik farmland owned by nobility and run by enslaved workers 3. bourgeoisie a member of the left-wing majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party 4. serfdom the poorest class of working people in society 5. Menshevik a type of slavery where the slave is the sole property of the master with no rights 6. proletariat a member of the liberal minority group of the Russian Social Democratic Party

Answer 1

The correct answers are:
1. chattel farmland owned by nobility and run by enslaved workers
2. Bolshevik a member of the left-wing majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (this is the opposite of the Menshevik)
3. bourgeoisie the middle class (usually contrasted with the proletariat/proles)
4. serfdom a type of slavery where the slave is the sole property of the master with no rights
5. Menshevik a member of the liberal minority group of the Russian Social Democratic Party
6. proletariat the poorest class of working people in society