Russia Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
runs from Moscow to the esat coast of Russia, longest rail line in the world | Trans-Siberian Railroad |
government owns all property and controls all aspects of life (from 1922-1991) | communism |
based on free trade and competition among businesses | market economy |
government owns all businesses and farms and makes all decisions about money | command economy |
rivalry between USSR and US; competition over superior weapons | Cold War |
mean dictator of communist Russia | Joseph Stalin |
1st leader of Soviet Union | Vladimir Lenin |
unpleasant Soviet labor camps | gulags |
located in Moscow's Red Square, commissioned/built by Ivan IV | St. Basil's cathedral |
where Europe and Asia meet | Ural Mts. |
Russian country houses | dachas |
longest river in Europe | Volga River |
vast forest of evergreen trees | taiga |
form of the Greek alphabet introduced by Orthodox Christian missionaries | Cyrillic |
huge area between the Pacific Ocean and the Urals | Siberia |
example: Catherine the great or Ivan IV | czar |
took over power in the Russian Revolution to begin communism (1922) | Bolsheviks |
important natural resource and export for Russia | oil |
mountain range located in Southern Russia, between Caspian and Black Sea | Caucasus Mts. |
factories that produce and process metals like copper and iron | smelters |
world's largest country | Russia |
Russia's capital | Moscow |
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mrsmansour
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