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10 Cards in this Set
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CZAR |
title for the early rulers of Russia from the mid-1500s to the early 1900s. |
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SERF |
a peasant who is bound to the land. |
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PETER THE GREAT |
a czar who ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725 and tried to make Russia more European. |
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BOLSHEVIKS |
a group of revolutionaries who took control of the Russian government in1917. |
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COMMUNISM |
a government and economic system in which nearly all political power and means of production are held by the government in the name of the people. |
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UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC (USSR) OR SOVIET UNION |
a new nation with a Communist government created by the Bolsheviks in 1922: dissolved in 1991. |
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JOSEPH STALIN |
a cruel 20-th century dictator who had millions of his political enemies executed. |
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TOTALITARIAN |
a government that controls public and private life. |
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COLD WAR |
a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II that never developed into open warfare. |
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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV |
Soviet leader from 1985 to 1991 who increased freedoms for the Russian people. |
