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History and Governments of Russia

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missionary   person who moves to another area to spread his or her religion  
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czar   title given to the emperors of Russia's past  
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serf   farm laborer who could be bought and sold along with the land  
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communist state   country whose government has strong control over the economy and society as a whole  
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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  
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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  
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glasnost   policy of political openness in the Soviet Union that allowed people to speak freely about the country's problems  
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perestroika   policy of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union that called for less government control of the economy  
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coup   action in which a group of individuals seizes control of a government  
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convert   change from one to another  
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release   to set free  
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eliminate   to remove or get rid of  
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