Geography 15
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- openness
- glasnost
- power made by creating a controlled atomic reaction
- nuclear energy
- a government in which people freely elect their leaders
- democracy
- Communist leaders controlled Russia's economy by using
- five-year plans
- Which Soviet leader set up five-year plans to industrialize the country?
- Joseph Stalin
- emperor
- czar
- competition for world influence between the Soviet Union and the United States
- cold war
- After the fall of communism, the Russian government adopted a
- market economy
- Today in Russia, political power
- is divided between national and state governments
- power made by creating a controlled atomic reaction
- nuclear energy
- Because Russia has notaddressed pollution
- the population has grown less healthy
- The largest number of Russians practice
- Christianity
- author of War and Peace
- Leo Tolstoy
- farm laborors who could be bought and sold along wiht the land
- serfs
- government in which people freely elect their leaders
- democracy
- a country whose government has strong control over the economy and society
- communist
- farm laborer who could be bought and sold with the land
- serf
- relating to the countryside
- rural
- In the late 1400's Ivan III made Muscovy stronger when he drove out the
- Mongols
- people who share a common culture, language, or history
- ethnic group
- Who led the Russian Revolution in 1917?
- Vladimir Lenin
- Modern Russians descend from early groups of
- Slavs
- composer of the 1812 Overture
- Peter Tchaikovsky
- people who share a common language, cluture and history
- ethnic group
- The Cold War was
- wated wiht the United States
- wrote novels that revealed the harsh conditions of Communist society
- Solzhenitsyn
- In Russia's rural areas:
- life is more of a struggle than in the cities
- Muscovy slowly developed into the country we know today as
- Siberia
- About three-fourths of Russia's people live in
- cities
- About 90 percent of the people speak
- Russian
- ethnic group living in Chechnya in southern Russia
- Chechens
- people start and run businesses with little government intervention
- free enterprise system
- Each of the 15 republics that made up the Soviet Union declared independence in
- 1991
- last leader of the Soviet Union
- Mikhail Gorgachev
- Russia's economy has moved from communism to a free enterprise system
- 1991
- The religion of most Russians is
- Eastern Orthodox Christianity
- relating to a city
- urban
- Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, and Fyodor Sostoyevsky were famous Russian
- writers
- The leader who was in power during World War II was
- Joseph Stalin