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| What is an independent polish worker's labor union? | Solidarity
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| What deals with economics and private businesses? | Perestroika
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| What is Asian Russia? | Siberia
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| What is the massacre of 6 million Jews from across Europe? | Holocaust
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| What is permanently frozen soil? | Permafrost
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| What covers most of Siberia? | Permafrost
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| What was a struggle between the communist East and democratic West? | Cold War
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| What means to break up into small mutually hostile political units? | Balkanization
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| What is a revolution without blood shed? | Velvet Revolution
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| Which lake is the world's deepest lake, largest freshwater lake, and holds 20% of the earth's fresh water? | Lake Baikal
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| What is an economy where the government controls what and how much is produced? | Command Economy
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| What is an inland sea with warm summers and beach resorts? | Black Sea
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| What is the movement for freedom of speech? | Glastnost
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| What are government owned farms in which the workers share the profits earned? | Collective Farms
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| What year did communists end private ownership of farms? | 1948
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| What is a system in which the government controls almost all aspects of political and economic life? | Communism
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| What is a treeless plan in an arctic area where short grasses grow? | Tundra
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| What type of ecosystem is located where Europe touches the Arctic Ocean? | Tundra
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| What is another name for coniferous forests? | Taiga
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| What vegetation is south of the tundra? | Taiga
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| What is the sense of what characteristics make a nation a nation? | National Identity
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| What is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization? | NATO
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| What is the name for a series of monarchs in Russia? | Czars
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| What is when goods and services move unofficially without formal record keeping? | Black Market
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| What was the conversion of state-run industries into private firms during the post-communist economic restructuring? | Privatization
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| What years did World War 1 occur? | 1914-1918
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| What year did the Russian Revolution take place? | 1917
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| What is to get rid of a certain ethnic group? | Ethnic Cleansing
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| What is the name of a mountain range in Western Europe? | Ural Mountains
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| What is a social system based on the principle of individual rights (free market, laissez-faire) | Capitalism
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| What is a city in the Ukraine that had a disaster involving a nuclear power plant? | Chernobyl
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| What is the capital of Russia? | Moscow
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| What is Europe's longest river? | Volga River
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