Russia USSR Review
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Created by:
phantomOmega on January 29, 2007
Subjects:
ussr, russia, prescott, geography
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Leaders who are typically known by their last names are in here by their last names (Lenin, Stalin, etc.) If they are known by their first name, they are in here as such (Ivan the Great, etc.)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 taiga | Giant forest. Half of the world's remaining wood. |
| Lake Baikal | World's deepest lake. 20% of the world's surface water. Threatened by pollution from nearby paper mill. |
| Chernozem | Rich, black soil from the North European Plain. |
| czar | Emperor (ruled Russia until Bolshevik revolution) |
| client states | Dependent on superpower |
| 5 year plan | Economic plan to become self-sufficient. Set quotas. |
| superpowers | Strong economically, militarily. Previously included USSR and US. Now just US. |
| Cold War | Ideological struggle between US and USSR. Included client states. |
| Bolsheviks | Won Russian Civil War / Communist Revolution. |
| Trans-Siberian Railroad | Railroad connecting Moscow to East Russia. |
| Chechnya | Wants to be independent. In the Dagestan region. Mostly Muslim. Using terrorism to accomplish their goals. |
| Russification | Stalin wanted all Soviets to follow Russian culture. |
| Heavy Industry | Equipment necessary for mines and factories. |
| Light Industry | Consumer goods. |
| Glasnost | Gorbachev's "openness" |
| Perestroika | Gorbachev's "restructuring" |
| Turkmenistan | A "stan" with large natural gas reserves |
| Tajikistan | Poorest "stan." Border with Afghanistan. |
| Uzbekistan | "Stan" with Islamic militants and limited civil liberties. |
| Kyrgyzstan | Most democratic "stan." "40 tribes" |
| Kazakhstan | 50% Christian, 50% Muslim. Oil. 4 times the size of Texas. Home to the Cossacks. |
| Peter the Great | St. Petersburg. Modernized Russia. |
| Catherine the Great | Black sea |
| Gorbachev | Glanost and perestroika. |
| Yeltsin | First democratically elected president of Russia. |
| Ivan the Great | Beat Mongols. First czar of United Russia. |
| Putin | Current Russian president |
| Lenin | Leader of Bolsheviks. First Soviet Premier. |
| Marx | German philosopher. Communism. |
| Stalin | Russification. 2nd Premier. Ally during WWII. Ruthless. |
| Romanov | Last czar. Abdicated then killed after WWI. |
| the Rus | Viking Traders. Founded Kiev. |
| Alexander II | Freed the Serfs. |
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