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| Tundra | a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.
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| Taiga | the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes, especially that between the tundra and steppes of Siberia and North America.
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| Steppe | a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.
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| Chernozem | a fertile black soil rich in humus, with a lighter lime-rich layer beneath. Such soils typically occur in temperate grasslands such as the Russian steppes and North American prairies.
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| Permafrost | a thick subsurface layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year, occurring chiefly in polar regions.
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| Loam | a fertile soil of clay and sand containing humus.
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| Regolith | the layer of unconsolidated rocky material covering bedrock.
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| Soviet | an elected local, district, or national council in the former Soviet Union.
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| Czar | an emperor of Russia before 1917:
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| Abdicate | renounce one's throne
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| Glasnost | the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information in the former Soviet Union
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| Perestroika | the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system
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| Ruble | the basic monetary unit of Russia and some other former republics of the Soviet Union, equal to 100 kopeks.
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| Black Market | illegal traffic or trade in officially controlled or scarce commodities
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| Command Economy | an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.
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