People
Man whose writings promoted Marxism
Karl Marx
What is the world's largest inland body of water?
Caspian Sea
Dictator of the Soviet Union after Lenin's death; one of the most brutal rulers of all time
Joseph Stalin
Power generated by moving water
Hydropower
Largest country in the world
Russia
Communism; Karl Marx's theory that there should be no classes in society, no government, no private property, and no religion
Marxism
Combined landmass of Europe and Asia; world's largest landmass
Eurasia
Period of Stalin's rule where he exiled, imprisoned, and executed millions of people
Great Purge
The Soviet agency in charge of national security and spying was the _____.
KGB
Russian leader who took the title of czar; also known as Ivan the Terrible
Ivan IV
What is the world's deepest freshwater lake?
Lake Baikal
First president of Russia
Boris Yeltsin
Free enterprise; economic system that allows individuals to own businesses and make a living without government control
Capitalism
Mountain range located mainly in Tajikistan; locals call it "The Roof of the World"
Pamir Mountains
Country that has no access to the ocean and is surrounded by countries which also have no ocean access
Double landlocked
Extreme northern part of eastern Russia; "sleeping land"
Siberia
War fought over Russia's attempts to invade Ottoman territory in modern-day Romania
Crimean War
_________________ is information used to promote a particular point of view and influence public opinion.
Propaganda
Man who introduced the Russians to a form of Christianity called Eastern Orthodoxy
Vladimir the Saint
What forced labor camp created by Stalin punished those who spoke against his rule?
Gulag
Leader of the Bolsheviks; leader of first Communist state in history
Vladimir Lenin
Treeless area of frozen ground and limited vegetation
Tundra
Highest peak in both Russia and all of Europe
Mount Elbrus
"eternal frost"; permanently frozen ground
Permafrost
Mountain range which forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia
Ural Mountains
In what year did the Soviet Union fall?
1991
Perestroika means "____________"
Restructuring
First true national leader of a united Russia
Ivan III
What is Europe's longest river that flows through western Russia?
Volga River
Soviet leader who created perestroika and glasnost; last leader of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
Class of people in Russia who were little more than slaves
Serfs
One of the world's largest regions of continuously level land
West Siberian Plain
means "emperor"
Czar
World's longest railway
Trans-Siberia Railway
Vladimir Putin was President of Russia from 2000-2008. In what year did he return to the presidency?
2012
Glasnost means "_____________"
Openness
Last czar of Russia
Nicholas II
What two narrow straits are controlled by Turkey?
Bosporus and Dardanelles
Soviet leader who supported the construction of the Berlin Wall
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist group led by Vladimir Lenin; Russian word meaning "one of the majority"
Bolsheviks
World's coldest city
Yakutsk
System in which individuals must give up the control of all property to the government
Collectivism
Desert which covers about 70 percent of Turkmenistan
Revolt in Central Asia after Czar Nicholas II required all non-Russian men to register to fight for Russian in World War I
Revolt of 1916
The organization of twelve former Soviet republics was known as the ____________________ of ________________ States.
Commonwealth; Independent