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Czar
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Ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution
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ruler of russia
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serf
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laborer obliged to remain on the land where he or she works
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laborer
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Russification
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in the 19th century Russia which required everyone to speak Russian and fallow Eastern Orthodox Christionity
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19th century
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Bolsheviks
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A revolutionary group led by Vladimir Llyich Lenin
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revolutinary group
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satellites
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countries controlled by the Soviet Union
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controlled
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socialism
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political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
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government owns_________
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Cold War
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the struggle between the two competing systems- communist and capitalist for world influence and power.
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competing systems
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perestroika
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Gorbachev began a policy of economic restructoring
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restructoring
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glasnost
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Russian term for a new openness part of Mikhail Gorbachev's reform plans
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openness
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communism
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society based on equality in which workerswould control industrial production
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equality
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