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Vocabulary Terms for Chapter 14 - Russia

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steppe   partly dry grassland often found on the edges of a desert  
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tundra   vast, rolling treeless plain in high latitude climates in which only the top few inches of ground thaw in summer  
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permafrost   permanently frozen lower layers of soil in the tundra and subarctic regions  
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taiga   huge forests of evergreen trees that grow in subarctic regions  
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czar   name for an emperor in Russia's past  
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serf   farm laborer who could be bought and sold along with the land  
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industrialize   to change an economy to rely more on manufacturing and less on farming  
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communist state   country whose government has strong control over the economy and society as a whole  
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Cold War   period between the late 1940s and late 1980s when the United States and the Soviet Union competed for world influence without actually fighting each other  
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free enterprise system   economic system in which people start and run businesses with limited government intervention  
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