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WC sem 1 Russia
world cultures russia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cold region of Russia with many natural resources | Siberia |
| vegetation region providing 1/5 of the world's timber | Taiga |
| The Aral Sea is shrinking because of | over irrigation |
| in 1917 the Czar's reign ended with a | Russian Revolution |
| The communist name for Russia was | USSR |
| the conflict between Russia and the US that never resulted in a battle | Cold War |
| After the cold war the world worried about Soviet Union's... | nuclear weapons |
| crime organization | mafia |
| created of the communist idea | Karl Marx |
| 1st communist leader | Vladimir Lenin |
| Stalin's work camps | Gulags |
| Peter the Great's new city on the Baltic | St. Petersburg |
| USSR leader who allowed privatization and political freedoms | Mikhail Gorbachev |