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Term | Definition |
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Boyars | a member of the old aristocracy in Russia, next in rank to a prince. |
serfs | a peasant in feudal society who was tied to the land of a lord to whom he or she owed surfs in exchange for protection |
mir | commune that regulated village life in Russia before the revolution in 1917 |
soviets | council of workers, soldiers, and peasants formed by Russian revolutionaries to change the established government |
gulag | a system of labor camps maintained in the former Soviet Union from 1930 to 1955 in which many people died. |
dissidents | someone who speaks out against government |
kulaks | preposterous peasant of the soviet union |
detente | period of relaxation of cold war tensions between the United states and soviet union by 1970 |
glasnost | openness and honestly in disguising the problems faced by soviet union |
perestroika | restriction of the soviet economy to make it more efficient and productive |