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Russia Notecards
Question | Answer |
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Boyars | a member of the old aristocracy in Russia, next in rank to the Prince |
Serf | a peasant in a feudal society who was tied to the land of a lord, to whom he owed service in exchange for portection |
Mir | a commune that regulated village life in Russia before the revolutions in 1917 |
Soviets | a council of workers, soldiers, and peasants formed by Russian revolutionaries to challenge the established government |
Gulag | a system of labor camps maintained in the former U.S.S.R. from 1930-'55 in which many people died. |
Dissidents | someone who speaks against the government |
Kulaks | prosperous peasants of the Soviet Union |
Detente | period of relaxation of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in the '70s |
Glasnost | openness and honesty in discussing the problems faced by the Soviet Union |
Perestroika | Restructuring of the Soviet economy to make it mroe efficient and productive |