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Russia Cultural Geo

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VARANGIANS   Scandinavian warriors who settled among the Slavs; created Kievan Rus  
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IVAN III (IVAN THE GREAT)   Muscovite prince who expanded Muscovy's territory that later became Russia; built the Kremlin  
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IVAN IV (IVAN THE TERRIBLE)   Ivan the Great's grandson who became first czar of Russia; crushed all opposition  
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PETER I (PETER THE GREAT)   Romanov Czar who modernized Russia; enlarged territory, built military, developed trade; built St. Petersburg  
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CATHERINE THE GREAT   Empress who continued to expand territory; Russian nobility adopted western European ways  
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CZAR ALEXANDER II   Russian czar who freed the serfs; assasinated  
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NICHOLAS II   son of Alexander II; he was the last czar of Russia; he was deposed and executed by Bolsheviks  
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KARL MARX   German philosopher who proposed public ownership of all land and a classless society (socialism)  
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BOLSHEVIKS   revolutionary group led by Vladimir Lenin; overthrew government and established communist state (USSR)  
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Vladimir Lenin   leader of Bolshevik revolution  
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JOSEPH STALIN   leader of Communist Party after Lenin's death; dictator of USSR during Cold War  
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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV   last leader of the USSR; instituted glasnost and perestroika in order to preserve the USSR  
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BORIS YELTSIN   president of Russia, the largest of the remaining Soviet republics  
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VLADIMIR PUTIN   President of the Russian Federation, after Yeltsin resigned; currently Prime Minister of Russia  
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KADINSKY   Russian artist  
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MARC CHAGALL   Russian artist  
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BOLSHOI BALLET   Russia's premier ballet company  
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PUSHKIN   Russian poet  
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TOLSTOY   Russian novelist; wrote War and Peace, Anna Karenina  
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DOSTOYEVSKY   Russian novelist; wrote Crime and Punishment  
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glasnost   Gorbachev's policy of openness, which allowed citizens to speak freely for the first time in decades  
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Kievan Rus   a loose union of Slav city-states under the Varangians  
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Kiev   leading city-state of Kievan Rus  
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Muscovy   territory along the Moskva River, ruled by princes; later location of Moscow  
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Muscovites   people of Muscovy  
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Kremlin   fortress in Moscow, filled with churches and palaces; built by Ivan the Great  
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serfs   enslaved peasants  
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Russification   policy which required everyone to speak Russian and follow Eastern Orthodox Christianity  
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Eastern Orthodox Christianity   religion of Russia, based on the religion of Byzantine Empire  
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Bloody Sunday   demonstration during Czar Nicholas II reign that ended with 1,000 people being killed by Russian troops  
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USSR   Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, established after Bolshevik Revolution  
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satellites   countries controlled by the Soviet Union  
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Cold War   the struggle between the two competing systems - communist (USSR) and capitalist (USA)  
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propaganda   form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position; presents information primarily to influence an audience.  
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czar   supreme leader of Russia from Ivan IV to the Bolshevik Revolution  
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socialism   political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production; the economic system proposed by Marx  
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communism   society based on equality in which workers would control industrial production;type of state established by Bolsheviks  
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capitalism   an economic system where capital and land, known as the means of production, are privately owned; labor, goods and resources are traded in markets; and profit, is distributed to the owners.  
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perestroika   Russian = restructuring; Gorbachev's plan for reforming Soviet government  
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atheism   a belief that there is no God; belief system required by communist government of Russia  
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patriarch   head of the Russian Orthodox Church  
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pogroms   in czarist Russia, an attack on Jews carried out by government troops  
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socialist realism   realistic style of art and literature that glorified Soviet ideals and goals  
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May Day   workers' holiday in Soviet Russia  
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Russian Revolution   workers' revolution that overthrew the Romanov government in Russia  
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intelligentsia   intellectual elite of Russia  
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