Nationalism - Patriotic efforts or feelings towards one’s country

Imperialism - The idea to want to expand one’s country

Treaty of Versailles - The surrender of all German colonies as League of Nations mandates

Idealism vs. Realism – Idealism is a practice for forming unrealistic ideals as realism is accepting this how they are and dealing accordingly

Fourteen Points – Woodrow Wilson introduced 14 points and said the Great War was being fought for postwar peace

Self-determination - Government of a political unit by its own people

War Guilt Clause - The first article in Part VIII, of the Treaty of Versailles

W.C.T.U. - The Woman's Christian Temperance Union; the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform

League of Nations - An association of countries established in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles to promote international cooperation and achieve international peace

Collective Security – A system created for international peace

Woodrow Wilson - Led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations

Economic Sanctions - Domestic penalties applied by one or more countries on another for a variety of reasons

Hoare-Laval Plan - Proposal by British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare and French Prime Minister Pierre Laval for ending the Second Italo-Abyssinian War




The Locarno Pact - Seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland in which the Allied powers and the new states of central and Eastern Europe sought to secure the post-war territorial settlement

Kellogg-Briand Pact - International agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them

Washington Conference - It was the first meeting on military strategy between the heads of government of the United Kingdom and the United States following the United States entry into World War 2

Bourgeoisie - The capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production

Proletariat - Workers or working-class people

Exploitation - The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful

Dictatorship of the Proletariat - A socialist state in which the proletariat, or the working class, has control of political power

Cadet - A student in training at a military school

Bolshevik - A member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party

Menshevik - A member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party

October Manifesto - A document that served as a precursor to the Russian Empire's first constitution

Fundamental Laws - law determining the fundamental political principles of a government

Duma - A legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics of the former USSR

Provisional Government – An emergency government in case of the larger governments’ downfall

V.I. Lenin - Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist

Joseph Stalin - Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state

Leon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army

Peace, Land, Bread – A promise made to the Russian people by communists to win their support

April Thesis - Were a series of directives issued by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin upon his return to Petrograd Russia from his exile in Switzerland



Soviet - An elected local, district, or national council in the former USSR

Alexander Kerensky - A major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917

General Kornilov – Was a high valued prisoner of war but managed to escape and go back to duty

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - A separate peace treaty that the Soviet government was forced to sign marking Russia's exit from World War I

War Communism - Was the economic and political system that existed in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War - Was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces

Reds/Whites – The two sides of the Russian civil war

Allied Intervention - A multi-national military expedition launched in 1918 during the Russian Civil War and World War 1

New Economic Policy - An economic policy proposed by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin who called it state capitalism

Comintern - The Third International communist organization

Treaty of Rapallo - An agreement signed under which each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and World War 1

“Gun or Butter” – The relationship between military spending and food supplies

Command Economic - An economic system in which the state directs the economy

Collectivization - The organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism

Kolkhoz - A collective farm in the former USSR

Kulak - A peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor

Five Year Plan - A series of economic development initiatives

Gulags - A Russian prison camp for political prisoners

The Purges - A series of repressive measures in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s

Gustav Stresemann - a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor in 1923 and Foreign Minister 1923 to1929 during the Weimar Republic

    The Patricia Theater, founded in 1913, is located in Powell River, British Columbia. The theater plays current and classic movies, also hosting plays. It has gained recognition throughout Canada as an elegant and intimate venue.

    At first, the theater was established for silent movies. Local musicians would perform during the movies to help create the mood and make it more entertaining for the customers. In the earlier years, customers had to endure such things as bats, and in the wind the tall building would sway. At such time, the women would utter frightened cries and grab their hair. Many people got refunds but it never kept them away for long, they always came back for more entertainment. The theater soon began to feature soundies. Along with movies, the theater also hosts contests and puts on play productions. Actors from across the world have performed at the theater.

     The Patricia Theater has been owned and managed by many people, and even during its darkest hours has continued to survive and entertain. It is believed to be the oldest BC theater business still in operation. The Powell River community continue to support the theater and today cherish it as a local treasure.