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Russia Test
Ch. 14,15,16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The __ is a layer of subsoil that is always frozen. | Permafrost |
| Progroms were the planned persecution and massacre of... | Jewish People |
| A sovkhoz was a ... | Large farm run like a factory with farm workers recieving wages. |
| Who was Leo Tolstoy? | A writer that wrote poems about Russian life. |
| The Kamchatka Peninsula is... | A peninsula that is a region of Siberia on the Eastern part of Russia. |
| What is the taiga? | A forest belt that covers 2/5 of European Russia and extends into much of Siberia. |
| The term tundra refers to a... | Vast, treeless plain that dominates the Russian landscapes. |
| Russia has __ because most of the country is far from any ocean. | Continental Climate |
| The main idea behind __ is that economic wealth should be distributed more evenly. | Communism |
| The move from __ is known as privatization. | Government ownership |
| Most rivers in Russia are __ much of the year. | Frozen |
| Soviet industrial growth led to serious... | Power for the Russians in wars. |
| What is a serf? | An enslaved workforce bound to the land and under the control of nobility |
| In general Russia has a __ climate | Subarctic |
| After the Soviet Union broke up, the government encouraged... | Independance and freedom |
| Perestroika: | A policy of economic restuction. |
| Kolkhoz: | A small farm worked by farmers who shared, to a degree, the farm's profits and production. |
| Kievan Rus: | A loose organization of city-states ruled by princes and started by Bulgaria. |
| Slavs: | A ethnic group in Russia that includes Poles, Serbs, Ukrainians, and other Europeans. |
| Galsnot: | A policy of greater political openess. |
| Satellite State: | Counties controlled by the Soviet Union. |
| Bolsheviks: | A revolutionary group led by Vladimir Lenin. |
| Socialist Realism: | Artists had the duty to incorperate famous Russian events and eras into art. |
| Chernozem: | Rich, black soil in Southern Russia. |
| Catherine the Great: | An empress who in the 1700's expanded Russia, and got a warm-water port on the Black Sea. |
| Ethnic Group: | A group of people who share a common ancestry, language, religion, or set of customs, or a combination of these things. |
| Communism: | A philosophy developed by Karl Marx's ideas that called for a violent overthrow of government and the creation of a new society led by workers. |
| Black Market: | An illegal trade in which scarce or illegal goods are sold at prices higher than the government. |
| Czar: | Supreme ruler |
| Nuclear Waste: | The byproducts of producing nuclear power. |
| Cold War: | The struggle between the two opposing systems-communist and capitalist-for world influence and power. |
| Permafrost: | A layer of subsoil that is always frozen. |
| Atheism: | The belief that there is no god or supreme bieng. |
| Chernobyl: | A town 60 miles north of Keiv where a nuclear spill occured and killed 8,000 people. |
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