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A political belief based on the writings of Karl Marx, in which all property is publicly owned and all workers are paid according to their abilities and needs?
What is communism?
A policy of the Soviet Union design to spread Russian settlers and influences to non-Russian areas of the country.
What is Russification?
A form of Christianity linked to eastern Europe and with church leaders in modern Istanbul, their Slavic neighbors to the west accepted Christianity.
What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
A Russian term for an acidic soil of limited fertility, typically found in northern forest environments.
What is podzol soils?
Dominates this region.
What is Slavic language?
A term coined by British leader Winston Churchill during the Cold War to define the western border of Soviet power in Europe.
What is an iron curtain?
A vast collection of political prison in which inmates often disappeared or spent years far removed from their families and communities.
What is Gulag Archipelago?
Slavic-speaking Christians who had earlier migrated to the region seeking freedom in the ungoverned steppes.
Who are the Cossaks?
A Russian term for dark, fertile soil, often associated with grassland settings in Southern Russia and Ukraine.
What are chernozem soils?
Inhabit most of European Russia and make up about 80% of its population.
Who are Russians?
An ideological struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that was conducted between 1946 and 1991.
What is the cold war?
Large Soviet-era projects of the 1970s and 1980s.
What is Mikrorayons?
With the downfall of the Soviet Union, this swept much of the region.
What is religious revival?
A cold-climate condition in which the ground remains permanently frozen.
What is permafrost?
Dominate in Moldova, although ethnic Russians and Ukrainians each make up about 13% of the country's population.
What is Romance?
A faction of Russian communists representing industrial workers.
What is Bolsheviks?
A northern branch of the Indo-European ethnolinguistic family.
Who are Slavic peoples?
This is the largest non-Christian religion.
What is Islam?
The vast coniferous forest of Russia stretches from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean. The main forest species are fir, spruce, and larch.
What is taiga?
Offers a bewildering variety of languages.
What is Transcaucasia?
Restructuring of the planned centralizes economy.
What is Perestroika?
Members of Huun-Huur-Tu, a popular Tuvan musical group that is helping to preserve this distinctive cultural tradition.
What is a Tuvan Throat Singer?
Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine are home to more than 500,000 followers of this religion.
What is Judaism?
An ice-free channel along Siberia's northern coast that will grow in importance given sustained global warming.
What is the northern sea route?
Traditional form of throat singing said to resemble the sound of wind swirling among rocks.
What is khoome?