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22 Cards in this Set
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Rich, black soil
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Chernozem
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Soil that is stays frozen all the time
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Permafrost
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Effect within the interior portions of a landmass
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Continentality
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A vast treeless plain in Russia; very cold.
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Tundra
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A boreal forest belt that covers western russia and most of siberia
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Taiga
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Dry reigons that lie outside of desert reigons
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Steppe
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Group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, and customs.
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Ethnic Groups
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Period of 1922 and 1991 when russia was communist and part of the USSR.
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Soviet Era
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Major ethnic group
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Nationality
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Self-rule
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Sovereignty
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Belief that god and the savior do not exist
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Atheism
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Organized Massacre
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Pogrom
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An elite intellectual
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Intelligentsia
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limited individual artistic expression and belief that the artist's duty to glorify russian government achievement
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socialist realism
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Sumpreme ruler
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Czar
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Virtually enslaved vorkforce bound to a land
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Serf
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conversion to russian languages and religion
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Russification
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Belief of greater economic equality in soceity
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socialism
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a revolutionary group to seize control
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Bolsheviks
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Countries controlled by the soviet union
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Satellites
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Policy of economic restructuring
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Perestrokia
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Policy of greater political openess
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Glasnost
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