Social Studies Vocabulary
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- important transportation
- trains
- czar with secret police
- ivan the terrible
- communist state
- government controls the economy
- serf
- farm laborer
- perestroika
- restructuring
- steppe
- dry, treeless grasslands
- earliest center of russian civilization
- keive
- kamchatka pennisula
- has volcanic eruptions
- mildest climate
- north european plains
- czar
- former emperor of Russia
- industrialize
- rely more on manufacturing less on farming
- stalin sent people to siberia
- because they disagreed with him
- glasnost
- openess
- gorbechev tried to change soviet economy
- gave more freedom
- taiga
- huge, subartic evergreen forest
- permafrost
- permanently forzen layers of soil
- unable to use ports
- because they are frozen
- longest river in europe
- volga
- tundra
- dry, treless plains in the high altitudes
- societ socialist formed
- 1922 qfter brutal civil war