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History and Governments of Russia
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| missionary | person who moves to another area to spread his or her religion |
| czar | title given to the emperors of Russia's past |
| serf | farm laborer who could be bought and sold along with the land |
| communist state | country whose government has strong control over the economy and society as a whole |
| collectivization | a system in which small farmers were combined into huge state-run enterprises with work done by mechanized techniques in the hopes of making farming more efficient and reducing the need for farmworkers |
| Cold War | period from about 1947 until 1991 when the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a political struggle for world influence but did not fight each other |
| glasnost | policy of political openness in the Soviet Union that allowed people to speak freely about the country's problems |
| perestroika | policy of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union that called for less government control of the economy |
| coup | action in which a group of individuals seizes control of a government |
| convert | change from one to another |
| release | to set free |
| eliminate | to remove or get rid of |