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24 Cards in this Set
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oligarch
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a member of a small ruling group that holds great power
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Soviet leader who allowed more social and political freedoms
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collectivization
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system of large government-run farms in the Soviet Union
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Catherine the Great
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encouraged the development of education and theater
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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dacha
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Russian country house
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serf
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Russian farm laborer who could be bought and sold
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Josef Stalin
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brutal Soviet dictator
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Czar Alexander II
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abolished serfdom
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czar
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ruler of Russia before 1917
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east
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The Russian Plain stretches ____ from Belarus and Ukraine.
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representatives
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Russia's citizens elect _____ to national and regional legislatures.
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Ural
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East of the Russian plain, the ___ Mountains form the boundary between Europe and Asia
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Cold War
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The rivalry and conflict between the United States and Russia following WWII was called the ______.
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Siberia
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Most of Russia's vast coal, oil, and natural gas reserves are in _______.
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Kiev
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_____ is located outside the boundary of present-day Russia.
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slow rates of forest growth
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Russia's forestry industry is challenged by the_______.
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drains to the east rather than to the north
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The Amur River differs from the other main Siberian rivers because it ________.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came close to war during the ________.
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oil wealth
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Russia wanted to hold Chechnya because of its ________.
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Boris Yeltsin
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President of Russia during the Chechen rebellion
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smaller
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The present-day Russian boundary is _____ than the boundary of the Soviet Union in 1945.
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soccer
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Ice hockey and ____ are very popular sports in Russia
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president
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It is difficult to call Russia's federal republic a full democracy because the ______ still maintains great control over the country.
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