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Baltic States Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia; three countries that border the Baltic Sea Lech Walesa Polish leader who co-founded solidarity and served as president of Poland from 1910-1995 solidarity Poland's first independent labor union co-founded by Lech Walesa Russification the effort to make countries occupied by the Soviet Union more Russian be replacing local languages and customs bread basket an abundant grain producing region brain drain the loss of skilled workers who move in search of better opportunities communism a type of government in which the Communist Party holds all political power and controls the economy command economy an economic system in which the production of goods and services is decided by a central government market economy an economic system in which the production of goods and services is decided by the supply of goods and the demand of consumers Magyar an ethnic Hungarian person or the Hungarian language Czechoslovakia former country in Eastern Europe that existed from 1918 until 1993 when it split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia Velvet Revolution the peaceful protest by the Czech people that led to the smooth end of communism in Czechoslovakia strategic relating to a plan of action designed to achieve a specific goal standard of living an economic measure relating to the quality and amount of goods available to a group of people and how those goods are distributed across the group eclectic made up of parts from a variety of sources Yugoslavia a country on the Balkan Peninsula from 1918-1991 Josip Broz Tito the Communist leader of Yugoslavia from 1953 to 1980 ethnic cleansing removing an ethnic or religious group from an area by force or the mass killing of members of such a group Kosovo a self-governing province within Serbia Slobodan Milosevic president of Serbia from 1989-1997 and of Yugoslavia from 1997-2000; a key figure in the ethnic conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990's Bosniac an ethnic Muslim from Bosnia and Hersegovina refugee a person who flees a place to find safety deport to expel from a country