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autonomous areas
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special ethnic homelands within the structure of existing republics
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Baikal-Amur Mainline Railroad
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parallels the older line but runs north of Lake Baikal to the Amur River
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Bolsheviks
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a faction of Russian's communists representing the interests of the industrial workers, seized power within the country
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centralized economic planning
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where the state controls production targets and industrial output
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chernozem soils
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fertile black earth soil
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Cold War
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war of escalating military competition that lasted from 1948-1991
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Commonwealth of Independent States
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a group of all the former republics except the three Baltic states
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Cossacks
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Slavic-speaking Christians who had earlier migrated to the region to seek freedom in the ungoverned steppes
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dacha
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cottage communities
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denuclearization
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the return of nuclear weapons from outlying republics to Russian control and their partial dismantling
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Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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a form of Christianity historically linked to eastern Europe and church leaders in Constantinople
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exclave
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a portion of a country's territory that lies outside of its contiguous land area
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glasnost
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openness policy of Mikhail Gorbachev
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Gulag Archipelago
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a vast collection of political prisons in which inmates often disappeared
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Iron Curtain
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a group of soviet republics that separated western and eastern Europe
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mikrorayons
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very large housing projects of the 70s and 80s in Russia
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perestroika
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planned economic restructuring
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permafrost
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a cold-climate condition of unstable seasonally frozen ground that limits the growth of vegetation
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podzol soils
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acidic soils that limit agricultural output
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Russification
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the Soviet policy of resettling Russians into non-Russian portions of the Soviet Union
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Slavic people
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a distinctive northern branch of the Indo-European language family
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socialist realism
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a style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers harnessing the forces of nature or struggling against capitalism
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taiga
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coniferous forest zone
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Trans-Siberian Railroad
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a key railroad corridor to the Pacific
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tsars
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authoritarian leaders who dominated politics during the pre-1917 Russian Empire
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