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Chapter 15 testt
Chapter 15 test
Question | Answer |
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a philosophy that calls for ownership of all land and factories by peasants and workers | socialism |
program of the late 1800s requiring everyone in the Russian empire to speak Russian to become eastern orthodox Christians` | russification |
IN 1917 the Bolsheviks set up a new government set up by _____ | Vladimir Lenin |
By the end of 1940 the Soviet Union had become a nation of _______ | 15 republics |
The Soviet Union held its first democratic presidential election in _____ | 1991 |
In the late 1600s czar Peter I came to power determined to ________ | modernize Russia |
The opera Boris Godunov was composed by _______ | Modest Mussorgsky |
In Soviet time the government supported art known as ________ which praised everything Soviet and ignored any faults in the political system | socialist realism |
group of people sharing customs, beliefs, language, and a unique heritage | ethnic group |
the largest ethnic group in Russia and the Eurasian republics | Slavs |
descendants of Iranian speaking people who entered central Asia many centuries ago | Tajiks |
the one European republic in which the Slavs are not the majority | Moldova |
the largest group of turkic people in the republics | Uzbeks |
the smallest of the Russian and Eurasian republics | Armenia |
most people in Russia and the Eurasian republics practice this religion | Eastern Orthodox |
fierce Scandinavian warrior- traders in the 800s | Varangians |
warriors of the early 1200s who invaded from Central Asia and destroyed Kiev | Mongols |
the capital of Armenia | Yerevan |
Under the rule of the czars, _________________________ | serfs were owned by nobles |