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22 Cards in this Set
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What did Peter the Great accomplish as czar?
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won warm water seaports for Russia and increased trade with Europe, tried to modernize Europe
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What type of government did the Soviet Union have?
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Communism
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What are the 2 largest ethnic groups if Russia?
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Slavs then Turkics
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How were the Jews treated by the czars of Russia?
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pogoms - organized murder of Jews
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the struggle between 2 competing systems for world influence and power
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Cold War
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government requires all to speak Russian and become Eastern Orthodox Christians
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russification
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the Father of Communism
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Karl Marx
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first elected president; introduced economic reform toward free enterprise
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Boris Yeltsin
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Why is the literacy rate in Russia nearly 100%?
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Soviet leaders emphasized free education from grade school to college
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What are the 2 most popular religions in Russia and the Eurasian republics?
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Eastern Orthodox Christians then Islam
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Russian leader who began to lessen restrictions of communism in the late 1980s
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Gorbachev
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Bolsheviks leader who started communism in Russia
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Lenin
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leader after Lenin in 1924; sought to make USSR world's leading industrial power
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Stalin
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Bolsheviks - communists
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Reds
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non-communists
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Whites
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supreme leaders of Russia
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Czars
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new openness in USSR
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glasnost
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intricate religious images
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icons
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peasants who became enslaved workers under control of nobility
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serfs
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harsh prison camps in Siberia
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gulags
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restructing the USSR
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perestroika
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What did the Soviets do to organized religion during its time in power?
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discouraged and outlawed it
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