People in History Word Scramble
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Name | Description |
Anastasia | Daughter of Nicholas II; thought to have died when the romanov family was executed in 1918. Since 1918, several women have claimed to be her. |
Andropov, Yuri | President of the USSR (1983-4) |
Bolsheviks | Radicals in the Russian Revolution who favored a revolution instead of gradual change; led by Lenin. |
Brezhnev, Leonid | Soviet leader who seized control of the Soviet communist pary form Khrushchev in 1964 and was head of the Soviet Union until his death in 1982. |
Chernenko, Konstantin | He was elected Chairman and general secretary of the Communist pary on the death of Yuri Andropov (1984). He died shortly after taking office. |
Gorbachev, Mikhail | He served as he final president of the USSR (1988-91). He introduced the policies known as glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring). In 1990 he won the Nobel Peace prize. |
Elizabeth | Czarina of Russia (1741-62). The daughter of Peter I and Catherine I, she obtained the throne by overthrowing Ivan VI. |
Ivan the Great | Ruled Russia as its first Czar (1462-1505). |
Ivan the Terrible | Russian Czar (1547-84) known for his cruelty and brutality. |
Khrushchev, Nikita | Premier of the Soviet Union (1958-64): was premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
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